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SUMMARY: Sawchen Lecture: Nick Mayhew\, “Russian Sexual Politics: The Day o
 f Family\, Love and Fidelity”
DESCRIPTION: Join us on March 16 at 11:00 am for the virtual Sawchen Lectur
 e Series\, featuring Dr. Nick Mayhew of Stanford University. This talk is c
 o-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>Join us on March 16 at 11:00 am for the vi
 rtual Sawchen Lecture Series\, featuring Dr. Nick Mayhew of Stanford Univer
 sity. This talk is co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster (supported 
 by the Public Humanities Hub).</p><p>View the recording of this talk here:<
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 ><strong>Title:</strong> “Russian Sexual Politics: The Day of Family\, Love
  and Fidelity”</p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Nick Mayhew's talk will exp
 lore a national festival that was instated across the Russian Federation in
  2008\, the "Day of Family\, Love and Fidelity" (День семьи\, любви и верно
 сти). The celebration falls on July 8\, which had long been the feast day o
 f the married Orthodox saints Petr and Fevroniia. Both the saints and the f
 estival have become a rallying point in Russia's campaign for supposedly "t
 raditional" family values and against supposedly "non-traditional sexual re
 lations". This talk explores how Orthodox culture is being harnessed to ent
 rench a patriarchal view of "tradition" that extends beyond the confines of
  church walls to unite Russian citizens of different faiths.</p><p><strong>
 Bio:</strong> Nick Mayhew is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Slavic Languag
 es and Literatures at Stanford University. His work explores gender\, sexua
 lity and queerness in Russia and Ukraine from a cultural studies perspectiv
 e. He is particularly interested in exploring queer approaches to cultural 
 traditions that are typically deemed conservative and heteronormative\, suc
 h as Russian Orthodoxy. His current book project responds to the way the Or
 thodox tradition has been harnessed to underpin discriminatory sexual polit
 ics in Russia today.</p>
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