Multiple Others

Workshop on the
History and Politics
of (Post-)Yugoslav
LGBT Activism

Central European University

Ndor u. 9,1051 Budapest
March 26-28, 2015
Gellner Room

CEU-UvA PhD
Research Seminar
Thursday, 26 March 2015
10:30 Welcome Remarks
Bojan Bili, Amsterdam Research
Centre for Gender and Sexuality
(ARC-GS)
va Fodor, Central European
University Institute for
Advanced Study (CEU IAS)
Gert Hekma, ARC-GS
Elissa Helms, CEU Gender
Studies Department
10:45 Willemijn Krebbekx,
ARC-GS
Sexuality, Friendship and
Difference Among Secondary
School Girls in the Netherlands

Multiple Others
Workshop on the
History and Politics
of (Post-)Yugoslav
LGBT Activism

Friday, 27 March 2015

10:30 Introduction
Bojan Bili, ARC-GS &
Sanja Kajini, UniBo

14:30 Ana Mikovska Kajevska,

freelance researcher, Skopje
Mapping LGBT Activism
in Macedonia
Discussant: Paul Stubbs, Institute
of Economics, Zagreb

Thursday, 26 March 2015

10:45 Keynote Lecture

Judit Takcs, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
Homosexuality in the
Eastern Bloc

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Danijel Kalezi, Queer

Montenegro, Podgorica & arna
Brkovi, New Europe College,
Bucharest
Queering Montenegro:
Challenging Homophobia and
Transphobia in Montenegro
Discussant: Franko Dota,
University of Zagreb

15:00 Teja Oblak, Lesbian

Feminist University, Ljubljana
In Pursuit of Autonomy:
Reflections of a Lesbian
Feminist Activist from Ljubljana
Discussant: Sanja Kajini, UniBo

12:00 Lunch

15:30 Coffee Break

14:00 Andrew Hodges,

Institute for Ethnology
and Folklore, Zagreb
White Angels Zagreb: Football
Fans Against Homophobia
Discussant: Paul Stubbs, Institute
of Economics, Zagreb

16:00 Radica Hura, Bisexuals

of Serbia/Belgrade Pride
Against Bisexual Erasure:
The Beginnings of Bi
Activism in Serbia
Discussant: Sanja Kajini, UniBo

18:00 Opening of the Workshop

Bojan Bili, ARC-GS & Sanja
Kajini, University of Bologna
(UniBo)
18:15 Keynote Lecture
Gert Hekma, ARC-GS
What Do Western Homosexual
Movements Want?

Saturday, 28 March 2015

10:30 Zorica Mrevi, Institute

of the Social Sciences, Belgrade
Parents and Friends as LGBT
Activists: PFLAG Groups in Serbia
Discussant: Bojan Bili, ARC-GS
11:00 Marija Radoman, University
of Belgrade
Towards a Different Pride?
Serbian LGBT Populations
Perceptions of Pride Parades
in Belgrade
Discussant: Franko Dota,
University of Zagreb
11:30 Irene Dioli, UniBo
Normalisation, Discipline,
and Conflict:
Intersections of LGBT Rights and
Workers Rights in Serbia
Discussant: va Fodor, CEU IAS

14:30 eljko Blae,

qSport, Zagreb
Emancipation on the Margins:
Queer Leisure and Sport
Discussant: Nicole Butterfield,
University of Szeged/CEU
15:00 Arian Kajtezovi, Trans
Aid, Zagreb, Jay Poti, Zagreb
Pride & Amir Hodi, freelance
researcher, Zagreb
The (In)Visible T: Trans* Activism in
the Post-Yugoslav Space (2004-14)
Discussant: Judit Takcs,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Adelita Selmi, University
of Sarajevo/UniBo & Lejla Somun
Krupalija, Association Crvena/
Red, Sarajevo
LGBT Activism in Bosnia and
Herzegovina: Between the
Local and the European
Discussant: Elissa Helms, CEU
Gender Studies Department

16:30 Alex Cooper, CEU

We Are Different, But We Are the
Same:Affect, Homonormativity,
and LGBTQ Activism in Serbia
Discussant: Slaven Crni,
University of Zagreb
17:00 Duan Maljkovi, Centre for
Queer Studies, Belgrade (via Skype)
Emergence and
Institutionalisation of Queer
Studies in Belgrade
17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 Final Discussion

11:15 Dorottya Rdai, CEU

Gender Studies Department
Sexual Pleasure and Gender
Differences in Sex Education
Among Secondary School
Students in Budapest, 2009-2011
12:00 Lunch
13:00Robert J. Davidson,
ARC-GS
Re-Framing Homosexuality in
the Netherlands, 1971-1985
13:30 Paul Mepschen, ARC-GS
The Racialization of Sexuality:
The Netherlands in European
Perspective

16:30 Piro Rexhepi,

New York University
EU-Washing: Queers, Islam
and the Politics of European
Enlargement in Kosovo
Discussant: Paul Mepschen,
ARC-GS
1 7:00 Coffee Break

18:00 Keynote Lecture Lepa

Mlaenovi, feminist lesbian
activist, Belgrade
Searching for Our Lesbian Nests:
From Feminists in Socialist
Yugoslavia to Lesbians in the
Anti-War Movement in the
New Nationalist States