10/22/2024
Join us tomorrow for Q***r/Archive/Citizenship:
A Modern Greek History - Lecture by Dimitris Papanikolaou
Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 5:00 PM
53 Washington Sq. S, Fl. 3W, Rm. 301
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How could we write a “q***r history” of Modern Greece? Snippets of personal archives from the long 20th century present us with moments of spectacular counter-conduct that have survived both homophobic effacement and normative historicization and minoritization. Such examples articulate a certain understanding of sexual citizenship as always already intertwined with the thirst for q***r history. In this intersection, this q***r/archive/citizenship, we can find something more than information on subcultural lifestyles and underground scenes and networks. In this, we can also find a productive site of historical becoming that is still open, critical, political and demanding.
Dimitris Papanikolaou is a Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Oxford. He is the author of, among others, Singing Poets: Literature and popular music in France and Greece (Legenda/Routledge: 2007), “Those People Made Like Me”: Q***r Cavafy and the poetics of sexuality (Patakis: 2014), and Greek Weird Wave: A cinema of biopolitics (Edinburgh University Press: 2021). Papanikolaou is a founding member of the collective Greek Studies Now, and the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, for which he has co-edited special issues on Cavafy Pop (2014), New Q***r Greece(2018) and Greece and the South (2022).
