Join us on March 26 at 11:00 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture S eries\, featuring Philip Gleissner of Ohio State University.
View the recording of this talk here:
Title: "Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia: From Leningrad Underground to Transnational Publishing "
Abstract: After the decriminalization of homosexua lity and the lifting of censorship\, a new queer culture began to develop i n 1990s Russia. This moment was accompanied by the emergence of new literar y voices\, publishing enterprises\, and periodicals. As we know today\, thi s period of freedom and relative safety was a short-lived one. In this lect ure\, Dr. Gleissner looks at the unique features of 1990s Russian print med ia\, especially literary and cultural magazines that served a community of queer authors and readers. He analyses layout designs\, key content element s\, and editorial tactics. The periodicals’ embeddedness in transnational a nd diasporic cultural practice and in the strategies of late Soviet disside nce\, he argues\, shaped their unique historical trajectory\, their moments of success and their challenges.
Bio: Dr. Philip Gl eissner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and East Euro pean Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. Dr. Gleissner spe cializes in the cultures and literatures of socialist Eastern Europe\, with an emphasis on print media in the Soviet Union\, Czechoslovakia\, and the GDR. He is particularly interested in the migration of media: mechanisms th at facilitate the circulation of texts within and beyond Eastern Europe. Hi s current book project is titled “Through Thick and Thin: The Social Life o f Journals under Late Socialism.” It shows how under the umbrella of state socialism a fragmented literary culture was organized by literary magazines . The book traces how these periodicals moderated multidirectional networks that connected the cultures of the Soviet Union\, Eastern Europe\, and the West in a dynamic manner.
Featured image: Images by Slava Mogu tin and Pasmur Rachuiko. Typescript courtesy University of Toronto Librarie s Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat.
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