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Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Israel/Palestine and Beyond Dr Adi
Kuntsman
This talk is based on Dr Kuntsman's new book, *Figurations of Violence and
Belonging* (Peter Lang 2009), which is based on an ethnographic study of
Russian-speaking queer immigrants in Israel/Palestine. The talk will start
with one ethnographic moment, the organising against homophobia in early
2000s, and follow the queer immigrants’ claims that the homophobic attacks
they experience are similar to anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews by
the Nazis. Dr Kuntsman will evaluate the currency of injury in the context
of Israel nationalism and its political use of the Holocaust. Secondly, this
talk will examine these claims in the broader context of the queer
immigrants politics, and more specifically, in the context of their frequent
anti-Palestinian stances, including repeated denial of Palestinians’ sexual
and national subjecthood.
*Bio*
Adi Kuntsman is Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Research Institute for
Cosmopolitan Cultures, University of Manchester. She is the author of
*Figurations
of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in
Cyberspace and Beyond* (Peter Lang, 2009) and the co-editor of *Out of
Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality* (with Esperanza
Miyake, Raw Nerve Books, 2008). Kuntsman’s research interests include affect
and digital cultures; migration and nationalism; queer racisms; and digital
m. Currently, Kuntsman is working on a new project on war, dehumanisation
and digital media in Israel-Palestine.
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*Welcome Reception Bloomsbury Gender Network*
*Thursday 14th October, 6:30pm-8:30pm*
*Room 101- Development Planning Unit, (DPU), UCL,34 Tavistock Square*
We are pleased to invite all students and members of staff linked to Gender
Studies across the Bloomsbury area to a welcome reception. We will celebrate
the 2nd anniversary of the Bloomsbury Gender Network (IoE, SOAS, UCL,
Birkbeck) and mark the beginning of a new academic year.
The Bloomsbury Gender Network aims to encourage productive exchange, staff &
student encounters inside & outside individual institutions as well as
sharing of resources & information to help develop a thriving research and
teaching environment for gender studies in the Bloomsbury area.
*Please come and join us!*
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*Thursday 14th October, 6:30pm-8:30pm*
*Room 101- Development Planning Unit, (DPU), UCL,34 Tavistock Square*
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Nadje Al-Ali
Professor of Gender Studies
Chair, Centre For Gender Studies
http://www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG, UK
Tel. (44) (0) 207-898 4547
Room 452A
See recent publications:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11145.php
www.zedbooks.co.uk/iraqi_women
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