Last seminar before the holidays! This time we are listening to PhD Riikka Taavetti on topic "Methodological Issues in Studying Queer History: Doing Justice to the Past and Responding the Questions of Present". We are waiting everyone who can, to attend the seminar in AAK's seminar room M-417. If you can not make it in person, Zoom link is provided below.
Everyone who wishes to attend in person, we kindly ask to register by 4th of December in order to provide the right amount of snacks. Registration link:
https://forms.gle/pmN2ZqSCwLfaqhCs8
Introduction:
This presentation discusses queer as a concept in historical research and addresses what it can do in research and how it may change the historical practice. In particular, the presentation focuses on two aspects that queer history has brought to the fore, that is, the analysis of silences and the importance of today’s perspectives and understandings to the past. The presentation argues that while these both are especially visible aspects in queer history, their analysis is an important contribution to the historical research more broadly.
Riikka Taavetti, PhD, works as a university lecturer in gender studies at the University of Turku and holds a Title of Docent in social science history at the University of Helsinki. Her research has focused on queer memory and queer history in Finland and Estonia, history of Finnish and Swedish sex research and methodological issues in queer history, oral history and cultural memory studies. She is currently a WP leader in research project Overcoming Barriers to Participation (OBaMa).
Zoom Link:
https://zoom.us/j/94095575085
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