This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event.
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Please join us for an event in the Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Tamar Shirinian, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Tamar Shirinian received her B.A. in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 2007 and her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, with a Certificate in Feminist Studies, from Duke University in 2016. She is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her current book project, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Queer Transformations in Postsocialist Armenia, investigates the widespread rhetorics of sexual and moral "perversion" in everyday life. Her work has been published in American Ethnologist, QED: Journal of GLBT World-making, PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and lamda nordica. She has edited a special issue of Armenian Review entitled "Queering Armenian Studies,” which also includes an original research article by her. Her work has been translated in Armenian, Turkish, and Georgian.
