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Inte03


Unsettling tradition: uncertainty of gender and sexuality in folklore 
Convenors:
Maria Mayerchyk (University of Greifswald)
Alina Oprelianska (University of Tartu)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Intersectionalities
:
B2.34
Sessions:
Thursday 8 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Prague

Short Abstract:

The panel explores traditional cultures beyond the naturalized framework of heteronormativity. Drawing on critical approaches, we examine non-modern cultural phenomena, which, being identified as "gender" and "sexuality," were often not complicit with the modern/colonial gender/sexuality regimes.

Long Abstract:

In this panel, we seek to explore traditional cultures beyond the naturalized framework of heteronormativity. By "uncertain gender and sexuality," we mean instances of folk narratives' characters, genres, and traditional practices which do not fit normative/modern/western structures of gender and sexuality or ethical systems. Many such cases had been left behind and forgotten under the influence/force of the European normative/national system of knowledge and interpretation. Other cases, especially when studied from imperial perspectives, were used to oversexualize and dehumanize peoples and cultures. There are also seemingly normative western-like sexual practices and folk narratives that could be queered by unsettling their universal meanings. In other words, in this panel, we seek to examine local cultures' phenomena, which, being later identified as "gender" and "sexuality," were often not complicit with the modern/colonial gender and sexuality regimes.

In terms of epistemologies, we invite researchers who work on narratives and folk practices from the point of view of a decolonial perspective (Maria Lugones, Sylvia Wynter), queer theory, and other critical approaches. In our understanding, queer theory includes but is not limited to LGBT studies. It can be taken as a broader framework aimed at historicizing and de-naturalizing knowledge on sexuality, as well as expanding and contesting former approaches. We are looking forward to the presenters joining the panel for the exchange of knowledge and discussion.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 8 June, 2023, -