Presentations by Streams

This panel considers the concept of ‘queer cross-cultural exchanges’ from a variety of perspectives. In which ways has Russian queer history been informed by the international exchange of ideas about queerness? How have queer people in Russia drawn from other cultural influences in their literary and cinematic works? How have relationships between Russians and queer people from other cultures been represented and used to symbolise real world politics on the page and on screen? And moreover, how are other cultures imagined more broadly in queer Russian-produced media, and crucially, how might decolonial theories illuminate these depictions?