On November 11-12, 2021, the Center for Social Justice will host its third queer forum in a row. This year the main topic of the forum is “Crisis, post-crisis and prospects of queer emancipation in Georgia.” The first day of the Queer Forum was held on November 11 in the physical space, and on November 12, attendees can attend the event through ZOOM.
“This year’s Queer Forum provides an understandinf of the place queer bodies in post-crisis Georgia, the political manipulation of the disappearance and emergence of queer groups from public space, the persistence of queer groups’ trauma and how trauma and pain memory is transformed and should be transformed.”
The nature and forms of queer resistance practices – their benefit and harm, as well as the goals of the violent groups in conflict with them and the reasons for their emergence – will be discussed in the panel discussions. Discussing these issues should facilitate the development of alternative visions and strategies from dominant and disciplined activist practices.
The Queer Forum is a hybrid of academic and activist space that opens up a platform for critical discussion and multifaceted discussion. The Queer Forum aims to facilitate the creation of an alternative educational space and the mobilization of activist groups. Consequently, the conference can be especially valuable for groups and individuals interested in Queer and feminist politics, activism and the social sciences.
Speakers of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Gender Studies from Georgia and Eastern European countries participate in the 2-day cycle of public lectures on the Queer Forum.
Bozan Bilic works on LGBTQ activism, LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy, non-heterosexuality and gender variation in the post-Yugoslav space. Bojab Bilic is a researcher at the Faculty of Gender Studies, Philosophy and Education at the University of Vienna, and a Professor of Gender and Southeast European Social Movements at the University of Bologna, School of Political Science.
Andrea Peto is a historian and professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University (CEU) (Vienna, Austria). She is an affiliate researcher at the CEU Institute for Democracy in Budapest and a Doctor of Science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her work on gender, politics, the Holocaust, and war has been translated into 23 languages. In 2018, she was awarded the ALLEA Madame de Stael Prize for Cultural Values. Peto is also an Honorary Doctor from the University of Sodertorn (Stockholm, Sweden). Notable among her recent works are: The Women of the Arrow Cross Party. Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2020. Also, Forgotten Massacre: Budapest 1944. DeGruyter, 2021.
Source: Center for Social Justice
