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A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics? Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film in 1970s Germany
Wann
20.07.2017 um 18:30 bis 22.07.2017 um 14:00
Die Forschungsstelle Kulturgeschichte der Sexualität
veranstaltet im Rahmen des Drittmittelprojekts
"Cruising the 1970s: unearthing pre-HIV/AIDS queer sexual cultures"
eine Tagung vom 20.-22.07.17 unter dem Titel
"A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics?
Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film in 1970s Germany".
Historical accounts of the German
1970s lesbian and gay move
-
ment(s) often draw the picture
of a legendary decade, a golden
age for queer sexual politics and
culture. t
his view is dependent
not only on the historic facts them
-
selves, but also – and significantly
– on the way in which they are
narrated in literature and film,
both of the 1970s themselves
and of our times. However,
what exactly made the 1970s
a “legendary decade”? What was
its revolutionary potential and
what were its path-breaking politi
-
cal and aesthetic strategies?
Which elements, movements and
memories had to be marginalized
in order to facilitate the historical
construction of the “legendary
decade”?
t
his conference aims to explore
the queer appeal of the 1970s by
both highlighting their legendary
aspects and questioning the histor
-
ical construction of the legendary
decade. t
he conference focuses on
the representation and construc
-
tion of the queer 1970s in literature
and film and highlights the
process of cultural canonization
and the differences between male
and female homosexual
expression.
a Golden age for Queer Sexual Politics?
Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film
in 1970s Germany
Humboldt-universität zu berlin
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
institute for German Literature
Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality
Conception and Organization:
Janin afken, andreas Kraß, benedikt Wolf
Contact and Registration:
kulturgeschichte-sexualitaet
@
hu-berlin.de
Venues:
Kino arsenal
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 berlin
Festsaal der Humboldt Graduate School
Luisenstraße 56
10117 berlin
both of the venues are wheelchair accessible.
Conference language is English
https://www.literatur.hu-berlin.de/de/ak.../golden-age.pdf
