CAS Guest Lecture. The Politics of ‘No!’: Armenia’s National Survival and Queer Futures
Abstract: In this talk, based on my recent book Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke University Press, 2024), I discuss the intricate links between two popular rhetorics in Armenia at the time of my research (2012-2014): aylaserutyn (sexual perversion, attributed by right wing nationalists and by mainstream media to the figuration […]
