Researching meanings and practices of security and belonging of queer people in Georgia (საქართველო). PhD candidate at UCL SSEES. He/they.
What did it mean to be a married woman in early Kyivan Rus’? Join us in person or online on Monday (13 May) for Ellie McDonald-Dick’s exploration of marriage's social, religious, and cultural aspects from the 9th to 13th centuries.
For more information and registration, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/may/social-religious-and-cultural-aspects-marriage-early-kyivan-rus-9th-13th-century
Last night, #Georgia 's police forces once again used excessive violence against people peacefully protesting the government's latest crackdown on civil society.
If you're in London, come tomorrow to express your solidarity with the protesters.
Event link: https://fb.me/e/24JSNNwg1
Despite Putin's escalating war on queerness, #queer #parents in #Russia continue to have and raise children. How do they navigate the tension between the need to stay hidden for safety reasons and the necessity to engage with the state bureaucracy in contexts such as education, healthcare or adoption?
#UCL #SSEES doctoral student Olga Doletskaya will address this question in their talk on Monday (29 April) at 11 AM (BST). Join us as usual in person or online.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/apr/creative-family-displays-under-state-surveillance
Do cases that #LGBTQI+ Russians and Poles win against their states at the European Court of Human Rights change anything? Do they get the #justice they were looking for?
Join us next Monday (22 April, hybrid) for Freya Proudman's presentation of her research proposal for contextualizing the understandings and interpretations that LGBTQ+ Russians and Poles attach to justice when mobilizing at the #ECtHR.
Our #UCL #SSEES Research Student Seminar is coming back after a short break. You can look forward to eight presentations by SSEES #PhD students at various stages of their studies.
If you want to attend online, follow this space (or the SSEES Events page) for links. Links to the first two presentations are below.
Freya Proudman (22 April): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/apr/resort-court
Olga Doletskaya (29 April): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/apr/creative-family-displays-under-state-surveillance
#Georgia: I am concerned about the compatibility of the draft law “On #transparency of foreign influence” with the #HumanRights to #freedom of association and expression.
Read my exchange of letters with the Chairman of the Parliament
of Georgia. 👇
Georgia's ruling party revealed the details of their anti-LGBTQI+ bill. It targets everything from freedom of expression to adoptions and gender-affirming healthcare. Imagine what they could achieve if they were spending this much energy on tackling poverty or other real issues the country faces.
How can the lived experience of #Kyrgyz migrant women in #Russia inform our thinking about #race, #ethnicity, and #citizenship? The next speaker in our #UCL #SSEES Research Student Seminar will be first-year PhD student Ksenia Sizonova who will outline her research plan.
Join us next Monday (18 March) in person or online for the last presentation of the term. We will be back from 22 April.
Next Monday (11 March), #UCL #SSEES PhD student Oliver Banatvala will present his work in progress on shopping malls in times of #war. What insight into everyday #geopolitics can these "inherently flexible" parts of the #urban landscape offer?
This time in person only.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/mar/shopping-mall-public-sphere-russias-full-scale-invasion-ukraine
#anthropology #conflict #Ukraine #urbanism
#Georgia's ruling party revealed yesterday that they're drafting a bill meant to protect society from the "pseudo-liberal ideology" and "propaganda of non-traditional lifestyles".
They withdrew their "foreign agents" bill last year following large-scale protests, but #LGBTQI+ people are an easier target.
This is just another attempt to stoke up and exploit anti-#queer sentiments for political gains: parliamentary elections are scheduled for October.
University College London shoutout! UCL is unwilling to set up a Mastodon account now, but they say that if there's lots of UCL presence here already it will nudge them in this direction. If you're at UCL or know someone who is, and you're on here, please reply to this to let us know! Current chief plotters: @sellathechemist , me and maybe more)
Fascinating annual symposium "Around the Fire" organised by the Centre for Creative Ethnography, Queen’s University Belfast!
"In the spirit of sharing stories around a campfire, the contributors will take turns to perform a diversity of pieces. Works can include, but are not limited to, poems, songs, short stories, plays, fragments of longer novels and scripts."
Deadline: 31/03/2023
#Ethnography #CreativeEthnography #ExperimentalEthnography #Anthropology
Don't miss my wonderful colleague Olga Doletskaya's Moscow Times lecture on the anti-#LGBTQI+ crackdown in #Russia.
Next Thursday (22 Feb) in person and online.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/feb/queerness-extremism-assault-lgbtq-rights-russia
Has #Romania's #healthcare system become the victim of political #populism? The next speaker in our RS seminar series will be a #UCL #SSEES PhD student Jack Daniel Dean who will outline his research plan to investigate this question.
Join us in person or online on Monday 26 Feb at 11 GMT.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/feb/anatomy-crisis-medical-populism-romania
@garyfisk Right, I see. I use it as my default spelling/grammar checker, so I was wondering if I missed something.
@garyfisk What makes Grammarly problematic?
Can #literature make readers more active in the world outside of text? Next Monday (12 Feb, 11 am GMT), #UCL #SSEES PhD student Agnieszka Puchalska will present her research project which explores how certain literary strategies may turn readers into co-creators of narratives within and beyond texts.
Please note that this event will take place online.
More information and registration:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2024/feb/fostering-active-readers
Less than a week to apply!
CfP: Looking for Everyday Security: A Cross-Disciplinary Workshop
Join us this Monday (05/02) at #UCL #SSEES for Carmela Morgillo’s presentation of her research on #Soviet #nostalgia in Cavriago, the town where #Lenin is the honorary mayor.
(Online attendance may be possible, DM me if interested)
This year’s #UCL #SSEES Research Student Seminar Series is kicking off next week (*coincidentally* with my presentation). Join us in the SSEES common room almost every Monday from 11 am (GMT).
(Some sessions will be hybrid – msg me if you're interested)
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/research/research-centres/arts-humanities-research-student-seminars
