History, Nationalism, and Lesbian Cabaret: Agnieszka Weseli "Furja" and Maria Konopnicka

Name: History, Nationalism, and Lesbian Cabaret: Agnieszka Weseli "Furja" and Maria Konopnicka
Start: 2019-01-28T16:00:00
End: 2019-01-28T16:00:00
Location: UW Van Hise Hall

Jan 28, 2019 4:00 PM

UW Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

January 25, 2019

9:22 AM

press release: Jodi Greig, visiting assistant professor in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This talk will trace the role that 19th century Polish Positivist author Maria Konopnicka has played in the 21st century Polish LGBT rights movement, as well as the backlash against her newfound status as an LGBT icon from nationalist factions.