FUCKING SOLIDARITY PROGRAM, 20-23 September, University of Vienna

Wednesday, 20th September 2017

Time Location: Aula, Spitalgasse 2, Campus Hof 1, 1090 Vienna
15.00-16.00 Registration
16.00-16.45 Opening. The Fucking Solidarity Crew says WELCOME!

16.45-18.30 Panel-Discussion Migration-Asylum-Solidarity

Jan Beddeleem, Fleeing Homophobia Research Project , Belgium
Elena Smirnova, Urgence Tchtchnie, Support Association for LGBT-Refugees from North Caucasus, France
Mansur, Queer Base - Welcome and Support for LGBTIQ Refugees, Austria
Negede Gebremeskel, DANA Social Group, Ethiopia/Austria.
Xsha Urmenic, Kviro-Fon, Queer Space for Russian-speaking Refugees and Migrants in Berlin, Germany
Moderation by Marty Huber, Queer Base - Welcome and Support for LGBTIQ Refugees, Austria

Hey, Queers from Turkey, Central Asia is SEXY! a lecture performance by Beren AZZ
18.45- 20.00 XCENTRAL FUTURASIA. Introduction to Affinity Magic Studies a lecture performance with slides by Creolex Centre

20-Open End Exhibition Opening

Note! Drinks & Snacks and Tour through the exhibition
Change of Department of English and American Studies, Spitalgasse 2, Campus Hof 8.3, 1090 Vienna
Location!
Artistic Gender and Sexual Dissent and Constructing Communities an introduction by Siajvo Pivnichne

With art contributions from:

Hagra A Guide to the Cooperation with Allies
Roberta Orlando Equality
Anna Varnavskaya Let her speak!
Vladimir Opsenica The Theater of Capitalist Brutality
Adelinaa TRACES

Thursday, 21st September 2017

Location: Department of English and American Studies, Spitalgasse 2, Campus Hof 8.3, 1090 Vienna
Time UE (bigger room) SR (smaller Room)
9.30-11.00 Queer (in) Public? On Visibility, Pride and Protest:
Moderation: Katrin Lasthofer
Raili Uibo Negotiating the Multiple Imaginaries around
Pride in Estonia: (whose) Solidarity, (which) Community,
(what) politics?
Rafa Wahl Herrera 8M Strike: Allowing yourself to leave
Hanna Stseryna Between Activism and Community: Study
of LGBT*-Activism in Belarus
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.30 Challenging the Western Gaze:
Moderation: Masha Neufeld
Vanya Solovey Global Standards and Internalized
Coloniality: What Russian Feminists Think of The West
Olga Plakhotnik Queer / Feminist Solidarities Against the
Nationalism and the War: the Case of Ukraine
Nadiya Chushak, Irina Tantsiura, Yulia Serdyukova
Gaycation Ukraine: a honest trailer
13.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Monologue of a Runaway Chechen a lunch-reading by Elena Kostyuchenko
Location: UE (bigger room)
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.30 Queer Kinships and Other Bonds: Queer Performativity:
Moderation: Tania Zabolotnaya Moderation: Ekaterina Panyukina
Kate Davison Pavlovian Queers: International Solidarity Ramona Dima Memory Practices and Queer Solidarity in
and the Curious Case of Dr Neil McConaghy Contemporary Romanian Independent Theatre
Sven Stabroth Post-soviet Union Countries and the Nelli Sargsyan () In Flight: Singing
Emerging Solidarity of Parents of Queer People in Europe Tricksters, Imposters, Masqueraders: An Instance of Post-
Alexandra Yaseneva, Ekaterina Davydova Boston Soviet Solidarity
Marriages in Contemporary Russia Bruno Cesar Barbosa Travesti Culturalism and Brazilian
National Identity
 17.30-18.15 Queer Kinship or Queering Kinship: Points of
Departure, Speculations on Methodology, and in Search
for Artistic Practice and Language
Lecture-performance by queer-feminist affinity art group
Unwanted Organisation
(Masha Godovannaya, Polina Zaslavskaya, Daria
Vorujubivaeva, Konstantin Shavlovskiy)
18.30-20.30 Film Screening recordless and discussion with
De collective

Friday, 22nd September 2017

Location: Department of English and American Studies, Spitalgasse 2, Campus Hof 8.3, 1090 Vienna
UE (bigger Room) SE (smaller Room)
9.30-11.00 Queer Solidarity in/and the Academia Art, Identity, Performativity
Moderation: Daryl Hill Moderation: Saltanat Shoshanova
Inayat Ullah Queer Solidarity Still a Taboo! Problematizing Eshik Pop culture and Fandom: The Search for Identity
the Monolithic and Essentialist Queering of Queer Studies in through Marginal Art
Pakistan Creolex cultural centr (Maria Vilkovisky, Ruthia
Kaciano Gadelha Was I too Queer to Stay? Pissing Jenrbekova) Adventures of Identities in Central Asian Art
Meritocracies, coming back Home, Friendship and Pdra Costa The Southern Butthole Manifesto
Solidarities outside Academia
Alexandra Novitskaya Academic Solidarity in Queer and
Postsocialist Studies: Interrogating the Points of Non-
Intersection
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.00 Temporality, Rituals and the Everyday of Queerness Queer(ing) Literature and Film
Moderation: Volha Olga Sasunkevich Moderation: Viktoria Ptzl
Janet Melville-Wiseman: New perspectives on Queer Tereza Zvolsk American in Prague - Construction of non-
Ageing straight Eastern Masculinity in the early post-soviet Czech
Republic Gay Porn Movies
 Daria Davydova: Researching the Can of Worms: Queer Julie Cassiday Interrogating Queer Performativity in Sergei
Methods, Gut Feelings and Memories of Soviet Childhood Lobans Dust
Melissa M. Wilcox Erotic Solidarity: Queer Religious and Katarzyna Lisowska Between Theory and Practice: Queer
Political Commentary in the 2016 Orthodox Calendar. Perspective in Contemporary Literary Studies in Poland
13.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 You come and you leave, we come and we leave, we come and you dont leave, we come and wish wed never leave, you
have left already, or you never came - a lunch performance by Simona Dumitriu
Location: UE (bigger room)
14.30-16.00 Border-Transgressions and Transnational Solidarity
Moderation: Katja Langmaier
Therese Garstenauer Solidary, but not quite Queer: Post-
Soviet Contacts between Russian and Western Gender
Scholars
Tatiana Bogacheva Power Relationship that exists within
Global Feminist Movement with Focus on post-soviet
(Russia) and post-colonial (India) countries
Astrid Fellner, Eva Nossem Are They Boundaries to
Solidarity? Queer Migration, Activism, and Coalitional
Possibilities in Germany and Ukraine
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Trans*gender Politics and Discourses and the post- Biopolitics and Governmentality: Queering the Everyday
Soviet/post-socialist Space Moderation: Betty Wambui
Moderation: Sasha Skorykh Shaban Darakchi Queering HIV Prevention in Bulgaria
Joanna Chojnicka Femininity and Masculinity on Polish K.O. OMara Sustaining Life and Love Among Queer
Trans Blogs Ghanaians.
Dorian Klimek, Viktor Heumann Building Joyce Kuaovi Paid Labor of Female Migrant Domestic
Communities, Building up Advocacy in post-socialist Workers in Russia: the Intersectionality of Labor, Ethnicity and
Countries - the Czech Experience Migration
Egor Burtsev Transqueerness: is it easy to be on the
Verge?

18.30-20.00 Alois Wagner Saal, C3 Bibliothek/Frauensolidaritt, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna

 Note! Change Racial-Sexual Geometries in the Queer East a round table discussion with:
of Location! Ruthia Jenrbekova, Artist, Creoleax Centr, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Katja Kahlina, Marie Curie Fellow, University of Helsinki
Hadley Renkin, Assistant Professor, Central European University
Saltanat Shoshanova, Art Historian, Berlin Humboldt University
Jennifer Suchland, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

Moderation by Katharina Wiedlack, Post-doc Research Fellow, University of Vienna

20.00-21.00 Otilia's Enigma Performance by Alexandra Tatar. Drinks and Snacks.

Saturday, 23rd September 2017

Location: Department of English and American Studies, Spitalgasse 2, Campus Hof 8.3, 1090 Vienna
UE (bigger room) SR (smaller room)
9.30-11.00 Queering Language, Facing Homophobia: Workshop After Citizenship
Moderation: Anna Sapuntsova Tereza Zvolsk, Zuzana Pavelkov
Brian James Baer Translation and the Subaltern Queer:
The Case of Kvir in Russia
Dmitri Isaev Ideological Opposition of Queer and LGBT in
Russia
Ekaterina Samutsevich, Irina Merkulova Censorship as
Instrument to Destroy Solidarity
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break Coffee Break
11.30-13.00 Lesbian Identities, Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Communities Gouverning Bodies, Governing Sexuality
Moderation: Liza Belorusova Moderation: Dinara Podgornova
Deniz Gedizliolu In Search of a Space to Denounce Gibran Teixeira Braga Queering Leisure: Politics of Body
Heterosexism in Queer Solidarity: Lesbian Bisexual and Pleasure in a Brazilian Party Scene
Feminists in Turkey Joana Castaon de Carvalho The Emergence of Menstrual
Nukri Tabidze Identity Politics and Lesbian Existence in Cups in Brazil: a Feminist Analysis of Online Discourses about
Georgia Menstruation
 Masha Ulianova Dynamics of Patriarchal Body and Beauty Leonardo J Raznovich Impact of the Sodomy Laws in the
Images in the Lesbian Community of Krasnoyarsk, Russia Caribbean Region
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 (Pathologo)anatomy of solidarity a lunch discussion with the Feminist library FemInfoteka, Petersburg, Russia

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-17.30 Decolonizing Gender and Queer Studies - Present
Challenges
Moderation: Marianna Muravyeva
Thamar Klein Decolonizing juridico-medical Concepts of
trans*-Bodies and Identities
S.N. Nyeck Animism Revisited: An Africanist Perspective
on Rhizomatic Queerness
Bee Sherer Intersectional Assemblages, Dilemmas and
Betrayals: Trials and Tribulations of Queer-feminist
Post/Decolonial Ethics and Solidarity
17.30-18.30 Theater Piece Peacemakers:
Dan Fedoseev, Friedrich Chernyshev, Natal'ya Blok, Marina
Usmanova
18.30-19.30 Closing