Why (Queer) History Matters: The Politics of History

Registration. Possibility of guided tour in the queer history exhibition at the University Museum of Bergen 

CHAIR: Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Professor of Social Anthropology and Academic Director of the Holberg Prize, University of Bergen

Norway & the queer history context – the Norwegian Queer archive by Tone Hellesund, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Bergen

The roots of Russian homophobia, and why historical research matters by Dan Healey, Professor of Russian History, University of Oxford

Queer history and neoliberal Islam by Evren Savci, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

Postsocialist homophobia and the lesson of histories past, present, and future by Hadley Z. Renkin, Assistant Professor in Gender Studies, Central European University

Roundtable: Culture wars and queer history

Chair: Ingunn Lunde, Professor in Russian Language and Culture, University of Bergen

Conference reception at KODE, hosted by the City of Bergen (for all participants)

Welcome by the Mayor of Bergen, Rune Bakervik

Roundtable: How to document and tell queer history? 

Chair: Kari Jegerstedt, Head of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen 

Public event at Litteraturhuset (not streamed). Screening of Susan Stryker’s film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (57 minutes) followed by a roundtable discussion involving Susan Stryker, Hadley Renkin, C. Anzio Jacobs, Dan Healey, Svati Shah.

Queer archives and activism in India by Jayna Kothari, Executive Director at Centre for Law & Policy Research and Akkai Padmashali, Indian transgender activist

White words & violence: A queer African herstory by C. Anzio Jacobs, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Scope Non-Profit Organisation, South Africa

Queer history in the USA. The development of trans history and the uses of transgender history for the present by Susan Stryker, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona & Stanford University Humanities Center External Faculty Fellow (2022-23)

Roundtable: Trans histories in a global perspective

Chair: Siri Gloppen, Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, University of Bergen

CHAIR: Ana Côrtes, PhD candidate at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, University of Bergen

The politics of sexuality in Latin America by Javier Corrales, Professor of Political Science at Amherst College

Sexualities and the uses of history in different African contexts by Sylvia Tamale, Professor of Law, Makerere University

Mapping queerness in postcolonial South Asian worlds by Svati Shah, Associate Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Roundtable: The promise and future of queer history making.

Chair:  Matt Cook, Professor of Modern History, Birkbeck, London University

All speakers are welcome to attend this roundtable

Possibility of guided tours at the Queer history exhibitions at the University Museum of Bergen, University Library of Bergen or KODE Art Museum.