Combining the Incompatible Identities: Study of Feminist and LGBTQ+ Believers in Ukraine (2021-2022)
Combining the Incompatible Identities: Study of Feminist and LGBTQ+ Believers in Ukraine (2021-2022)
Religion, Challenge and Change seminar series
Date: Wednesday 29 June 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Zoom
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Staff workshops and seminars
Speaker: Iryna Kaplan
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchclusters/religion-challenge-change/
Combining the Incompatible Identities: Study of Feminist and LGBTQ+ Believers in Ukraine (2021-2022)
29 June 2022, 14:00 (UK time)
Lecturer: Iryna Kaplan, Bochum/Kyiv
Chair: Julie Clague, Glasgow
Location: Zoom
https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/97004633448?pwd=R2lORkRXeWl5dUNHWjJucHlCb0ZGUT09 (Meeting ID: 970 0463 3448; Passcode: 684354)
Abstract:
The webinar is devoted to the research conducted in Ukraine by the Workshop for the Academic Study of Religions in 2021-2022 (Kyiv, Ukraine). An outline of the research, including its methodology and results, will be presented. The research focuses on the combination of various individual and collective identities (religious, sexual, and feminist), exploring the personal experience of modern Ukrainian believers (present or former), who happen to be feminists and/or LGBT. If they experience some kind of “identity crisis” on a personal level, do they turn to their respective religious communities for help, or do they prefer to withdraw from them, knowing that religious communities do not always tolerate feminists or LGBT people? What strategies do feminist and LGBT believers use to reconcile competing identities? Are the religious communities in Ukraine open to feminist and/or LGBT believers or do they prefer to ignore and exclude them? These and other issues will be discussed at the presentation including brief information about the religious and human rights situations in Ukraine.
Lecturer:
Iryna Kaplan completed her M.A. in the study of religion. She is a member of the Kyiv-based NGO “Workshop for Academic Study of Religion” in Ukraine. She is a project manager in the project “Combining the Incompatible: Making the Problems of Feminist and LGBTQ+ Believers Visible in Ukraine (2021-2022)”. She is currently a guest researcher at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES), in the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany).
Religion, Challenge and Change seminar series:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchclusters/religion-challenge-change