[ecrea] Call for Papers "Gender and sexualities in (post)Soviet/ (post)Socialist music, theater and visual arts"

Call for Papers "Gender and sexualities in (post)Soviet/ (post)Socialist 
music, theater and visual arts"
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 28/02/2017


*Gender and sexuality in (post)Soviet/ (post)Socialist music, theater 
and visual arts*

19th-20th April  2017

Organised by Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Graduate School 
of Culture Studies and Arts (GSCSA)

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Venue:*

Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn, Tatari 13, C105 and A404

Artis Cinema, Estonia pst 9


This international, interdisciplinary seminar, hosted by the Estonian 
Academy of Music and Theatre and GSCSA, will seek to explore 
performativity and representations of gender and sexuality in music, 
theatre and visual arts before and after the fall of Iron Curtain but 
also in (post)Socialist area in general. The list will be updated, but 
we are already very pleased to announce that the keynote speakers of the 
seminar are:

*Yngvar B. Steinholt* is Associate Professor of Russian Culture and 
Literature at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He has published 
numerous articles and books on popular music in the Soviet Union and 
post-Soviet Russia, as well as on art activism, protest culture and 
contemporary Russian society. Among the other influential publications, 
Steinholt is also co-author of the book Punk in Russia: Cultural 
mutation from the ‘useless’ to the ‘moronic’ (Routledge), 2014.

*Stephen Amico *is Associate Professor of Music and Media Studies at the 
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is author and editor of several 
publications on post-Soviet popular music and sexuality, including the 
book Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!: Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet 
Homosexuality (New Perspectives on Gender in Music) (University of 
Illinois Press), 2015.

*Clemens Risi* is Professor of Theatre and Media Studies at the 
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He is author 
and editor of numerous important publications on music theatre, opera 
and performativity studies, including (with Erika Fischer-Lichte and 
Jens Roselt) Kunst der Aufführung – Aufführung der Kunst (= Recherchen 
18), 2004, and (with Gundula Kreuzer) Opera in Transition. Special issue 
of The Opera Quarterly (Oxford University Press), 2011.

*Harry Liivrand *is Estonian art historian and curator of numerous 
important exhibitions which, inter alia, are covering marginalised topic 
of gay sensibility in post-Soviet Estonian art. He is author and editor 
of numerous fascinating publications about art, history, music and 
opera. Liivrand was 2011–2016 appointed as Estonian cultural attaché in 
Berlin. Currently, Liivrand is a visiting lecturer of Estonian Academy 
of Music and Theater, as well as a Head Specialist of Research and 
Communication at the Academic Library of Tallinn University.

*Rebeka Põldsam* is Estonian art critic and  curator-project manager at 
the Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Her academic focus at the 
Estonian Art Academy and Goldsmiths College, but also as a curator and 
art critic, has been on representations of sexual minorities and 
post-Soviet gender representations in Estonian and Eastern European 
contemporary art.

*Terje Toomistu* is Estonian anthropologist, whose main interests both 
in academics and as an independent writer, photographer, and filmmaker 
are various cross-cultural processes, culturally framed meanings, visual 
anthropology, and gender, queer and memory studies. At the moment she is 
working on a documentary film about distinctive hippie movement, the 
psychedelic underground in the Soviet Union.

The aim of this seminar is to gather doctoral and postdoctoral students 
to represent their individual researches. With this seminar we hope to 
foster interdisciplinary dialogues between those researching gender in 
different fields of (post)Soviet and (post)Socialists aesthetics with a 
view to establishing international collaborations in the future between 
researchers.

We welcome submissions particularly from (but not limited to) those 
doctoral students looking at gender and performativity in 
(post)Soviet/Socialist music, theater and visual arts working in the 
fields like:

●      (Post)Soviet/(Post)Socialist aesthetics

●      Musicology

●      Visual art studies (incl. design and fashion studies)

●      Theater studies

●      Media, film and communication studies

●      Feminist theory

●      Queer approaches

●      Critical studies on men and masculinities

●      Cultural studies



Abstract submissions should be no longer than 250 words and should be 
sent to (hannaliisa.uusma /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(hannaliisa.uusma /at/ gmail.com)>. 
The deadline for abstract submissions is *28.02.2017. *Presentations 
should be 20 minutes long and must be delivered in English.

Applicants will receive a response regarding the outcome of their 
submission by the 01.03.2017.

Participation in the course is free of charge. The GSCSA will reimburse 
the travel and accommodation expenses of its registered members.


This event is organised by the Graduate School of Culture Studies and 
Arts, supported by the ASTRA project of the Estonian Academy of Music 
and Theatre (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).

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