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--</style><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Deakin University's next 'First Fridays' Gender and Sexuality Studies seminar will be held at 4pm on 7 December at </span><a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/locations/deakin-corporate-centres/deakin-downtown" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Deakin
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">All are welcome to join us for afternoon tea before the seminar as part of a monthly GSS/LGBTQ+ Community networking event from 3pm onwards sponsored by Deakin University
Equity and Diversity. The seminar commences at 4pm and will be followed by informal drinks.</span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">The seminar series is free and open to people interested in the work, although bookings are required. For <a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/seminar-series/" target="_blank">further
information about the seminar series and to register see our blog</a>.</span></p>
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<h1><span lang="EN-GB">From Cold War to Queer War: Homophobia as Statecraft</span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The spread of international support for recognition of LGBT rights in recent decades has been accompanied by a parallel resurgence in state-led homophobia in countries such as Uganda, Russia, Indonesia and others. Both
internationally and within specific states, the result has been an intensifying and polarising "Queer War" over sexual rights that is intimately linked to questions of national identity and statehood. Drawing on the cases of the US and Russia, this seminar
will examine how states have deployed political homophobia both during in the Cold War and the present day and consider how states' "fear of queer" shapes international politics and affects everyone's lives regardless of sexuality or gender.
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<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cai Wilkinson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University. Her research focuses on societal security in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on LGBTQ human rights,
gender normativity and "traditional values" in Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Her work has been published in journals including
</span><em style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Security Dialogue</span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">,
</span><em style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Journal of Human Rights</span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">,
</span><em style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Central Asian Survey,</span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><em style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Nationalities Papers</span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> and
</span><em style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Australian Journal of International Affairs,
</span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">and she has contributed chapters to volumes about securitization theory, LGBT activism, fieldwork-based research methods and a range of other topics. She was guest-editor with Anthony
J. Langlois of a special issue of the </span><em style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Journal of Human Rights
</span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">on local resistance to LGBT rights (2014) and more recently an interventions symposium on queer/ing in/security in
</span><em style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Critical Studies on Security
</span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">(2017). Cai was recently announced as the recipient of the International Studies Association LGBTQA Caucus' 2019 Eminent Scholar Award.
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<p style="margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"><a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/seminar-series/">For further information and to register click
here.</a></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Future Seminars</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">The <a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/">Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network blog</a> contains registration details, recordings of past seminars
where available and links to other events. </span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">You are receiving this email because you attended a Deakin Gender and Sexuality Studies seminar or have contacted us to be placed on this list. If you no longer wish to receive occasional notifications
of Deakin GSS events (usually two emails per month), please contact me and I will remove you from the list.</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Jack Kirne</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Deakin University</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, Burwood, Victoria, 3125</span></p>
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