Over the past decade, Ukraine has witnessed significant advances in LGBTQ visibility and rights, even as anti-gender movements and conservative actors have mobilized against them. The Russian full-scale invasion has accelerated this tension. This seminar explores how wartime conditions have transformed both LGBTQ activism and anti-gender politics in Ukraine, reshaping public debates on citizenship, family, and “European values.”
Programme
08:30: Doors open, light breakfast
08:45: Lecture: “LGBTQ Rights and Anti-Gender Politics in Wartime Ukraine”
09:30: Commentary: “Why do Authoritarian Leaders Keep Talking about LGBTQ people?
”Mina Wikshåland Skouen from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee will provide commentary on how anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric in Europe and Central Asia has moved from a value-based trajectory into a trajectory on safety and security, since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
09:50: Short Q&A
Moderated by Maryna Rabinovych.
Digital attendance is also available.