Heteronormativity of Childhoods

Friday, September 9

10.30 – 11.00 coffe / registration

11.00 – 12.00 Introduction speech Gordan Bosanac, Queer Zagreb Zvonimir Dobrović, Queer Zagreb guest lecture: prof.dr Alexandar Štulhofer

12.00 – 12.45 Professor Richard Green, Gender Identity Clinic, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK Childhood Gender-Nonconformity: Challenge to the Child, the Parent, and Society

12.45– 14.15 lunch break

14.15 - 14.45 Lasse Kekki, Finland Queer Child – Queer Kid, Future and Queer Theories

14.45 – 15.15 Diedeirk F. Janssen, The Netherlands, Queering “the” Child Where it Hurts the Most. Or: What’s Fundamentally Wrong about Eating Cookies?

15.15 - 15.45 coffe break

15.45 – 16.30 Kristijan Grđan, Convention on the Right of the Child and its application in protection of (queer) children's rights and freedoms

Saturday, September 10th

11:00 Zagreb Puppet Theater, Ul. baruna Trenka 3 Mini Teater (Slovenia), Different (Drugačen)

13:00 Gallery Jospi Račić, Margaretska 3 Silvio Vujičić (Croatia), exhibition Under the Daisies (Ispod tratinčica)

back to Goethe Institute
15.00 – 15.30 Peter Hegarty, University of Surrey, UK, Another Generation of Straight Kids Later?

15.30 – 16.00 Iona Ghisa, Romania, Deconstructing authority and constructing autonomy in Philip Pullman’s «His Dark Materials»

Sunnday, September 11

11.00 – 13.00 Vlatka Frketić and Persson B. Baumgartinger, Croatia and Austria, We Are All Good Drummers, Or Whet Has This All To Do With Me? -workshop In the workshop we want to work out the possibilities of deconstruction of heteronormativity in the childhood and connect heteronormativity to other binary systems with which it has to do. The theoretical basis will be the approach to Queer Theories of Gudrun Perko who talks about queer plurality.

13.00 -14.30 lunch break

14.30 - 15.00 Patryk Starzykowski,Switzerland/Poland ''Waiting for a miracle'' digital diaporama

15.00 – 15.45 Akkiko Mizoguchi, Japan, Japanees Anime

15.45 – 16.30 conclusions