The event will be held in Lithuanian.<\/p>\n
What does it mean to reread Janina Degutyt\u0117 today, as previously less visible layers of her life and relationships come into view? What does her long-standing relationship with the artist Bron\u0117 Jacevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117-J\u0117\u010di\u016bt\u0117 tell us, and what changes when we approach it through new ways of reading?<\/p>\n
In this discussion, we will explore queer readings of the past: how do we recognise and interpret what was silenced, unnamed, or simply invisible in earlier histories? What do we lose if we dismiss queer readings as anachronistic, imposing today\u2019s categories onto the past? And what do we risk losing if we rely on these categories too confidently?<\/p>\n
Together, we will also consider how to avoid idealising historical figures. Do the heroes of our queer cultural histories have to be fighters and activists, always making the \u201cright\u201d choices? Or is it important to see more complicated lives, too \u2013 people who tried to survive, create, love, and find their place within particular historical circumstances?<\/p>\n
The discussion will feature:
\nDr Rasa Navickait\u0117, researcher and lecturer at Vilnius University\u2019s Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU TSPMI), whose work focuses on queer and gender history and the politics of sexuality.
\nDr Rasa Kamarauskait\u0117, sociologist researching the everyday experiences of queer people and (in)visibility in Lithuania in the 20th and 21st centuries.
\nDr Giedr\u0117 \u0160mitien\u0117, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and one of the editors of\u00a0Janina Degutyt\u0117\u2019s Letters.
\nAssoc. Prof. Dr Jurga Jonutyt\u0117, philosopher and literary scholar working at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and teaching in the Department of Philosophy at Vytautas Magnus University (VDU).<\/p>\n
The discussion will be moderated by Viktorija Kolbe\u0161nikova, one of the organisers of the Kreiv\u0117s festival and co-curator of the i\u0161girsti queer archive.<\/p>\n
During the event, poems by Janina Degutyt\u0117, as well as texts from her correspondence with Bron\u0117 Jacevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117-J\u0117\u010di\u016bt\u0117, selected from the collection of letters Tveriantis ry\u0161ys<\/em>, compiled by Giedr\u0117 \u0160mitien\u0117, will be read by members of the LBT Book Club. The readings are curated by Sandra Amank\u00e0, curator of the feminist section of \u0160iaur\u0117s At\u0117nai<\/em> and a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.<\/p>\n The event is organised in cooperation with the LBT Book Club.<\/p>\n The visual features a fragment of Anton Karyuk\u2019s work Portrait of Janina Degutyt\u0117<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","programa":[41],"class_list":["post-5131","renginys","type-renginys","status-publish","hentry","programa-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/renginys\/5131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/renginys"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/renginys"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"programa","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programa?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}