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Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity
ID740257FromOctober 31, 2017toOctober 31, 2020FunderEuropean CommissionLIDISNO is the first large-scale research project that analyses the role of language in the discursive formation of sexual normativity. Based on poststructuralist and Queer Linguistic theorisations of language and sexuality as discursively shaped, the project highlights the historical relativity and...Trans in Translation: Multilingual practices and local/global gender and sexuality discourses in Polish transition narratives
ID882747FromAugust 31, 2021toAugust 31, 2023FunderEuropean CommissionThe project Trans in Translation (acronym: TRANSlation) focuses on Polish gender transition narratives published on selected social media in order to investigate their use of multilingual and cultural/linguistic translation practices in navigating local/global gender and sexuality discourses. TRANSl...The Eunuchs of Assyria: Social Castration as Imperial Strategy in the World’s First Empire
ID898325FromJuly 31, 2020toJuly 31, 2023FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorFreie Universitaet BerlinThe study of Assyria, the world’s earliest empire, has sought to define and reconstruct the material and immaterial structures of imperial power. Research to date has focused primarily on the roles and agency of the king, the most visible actor in the extant sources, though recent work on queenship...Living Too Long: Republican Time in American Literature
ID101067300FromAugust 31, 2023toAugust 31, 2025FunderEuropean CommissionHow do you nurture democracy in a republic? Today, as republics around the world are straining under the pressures of authoritarianism, this question becomes almost overwhelmingly urgent. In helping to draw the blueprints for United States republicanism, Thomas Jefferson gave his answer in temporal...Resistance to anti-gender politics: The role of coalitions and affects
ID101066305FromAugust 31, 2022toAugust 31, 2024FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUniversite Libre De BruxellesGender and sexuality became highly politicized, especially after the emergence of the first anti-gender campaigns in Europe in the mid-2000s. Mobilisations took place in several countries against sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTQI rights, children’s rights, gender, laws and policies against hate...Madness in Fairy Land: (Re)Imagining Deviance in the Age of Psychiatry, 1820-1900
ID101025123FromOctober 14, 2021toOctober 14, 2024FunderEuropean Commission‘Madness in Fairy Land’ (MadLand) is an interdisciplinary exploration of fairy-tale and medical discourses on deviance and abnormality in 19th-century Britain, France, and the US. The project demonstrates the mutual knowledge-exchange between psychiatry and literature in interpreting, understanding,...Birth of the Marimacho: Modernismo’s Trans* Cultural Productions in Latin America
ID101103095FromAugust 31, 2023toAugust 31, 2025FunderEuropean CommissionBirth of the Marimacho: Modernismo’s Trans* Cultural Productions in Latin America analyzes the emergence of a new gender expression in early-twentieth-century Latin American literature, science, and visual culture: the ‹‹marimacho››. In the Hispanic tradition, marimacho is the umbrella notion that m...Anti-LGBT organising and its transnational dynamics: The case of the Balkans
ID706706FromAugust 31, 2016toAugust 31, 2018FunderEuropean CommissionThis research will address the emergence and functioning of social activism directed against LGBT rights, its transnational dimension, and its implications for the theories of liberal democracy. It will do so by exploring anti-LGBT organising in two Balkan states - Croatia and Serbia - where strong...