BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250815T054031EDT-3030Pp7gvX@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250815T094031Z DESCRIPTION:We’re happy to invite you to the second event in this year’s AH CS Student Speaker Series\, this time featuring two presenters: Nina Moren a and Clinton Glenn\, both PhD students of Communication Studies at 鶹ɫƬ . Nina's talk is entitled '#Mastectomy on Instagram: Gendered Loss and the Function of the Scar in Photography\,' while Clinton is presenting 'Comme moration and Desecration: LGBT Visibility and National Memory in Vilnius\, Lithuania.'\n\nPlease join us on Tuesday\, January 26th at 4PM EST (on Zo om) for two great presentations and\, afterwards\, a Q&A period––we look f orward to your participation!\n\nA Zoom link will be sent out closer to th e date.\n\n—\n\n#Mastectomy on Instagram: Gendered Loss and the Function o f the Scar in Photography –– Nina Morena\n\nPosts tagged #mastectomy on In stagram contain a range of breast cancer-related content\, including patie nt selfies which sometimes reveal mastectomy scars. Instagram has justifie d their decision to allow post-surgery photos: “We understand that undergo ing a mastectomy is a life-changing experience” (Instagram Help Center). M y paper will explore the function of the mastectomy scar in photography. I conceptualize the mastectomy – a surgery with gendered implications – as a form of gendered loss\, and of posting photos as a performance of such l oss. However\, rather than considering loss in the traditional negative se nse\, this paper considers the possibility of loss as affirmation and foll ows Audre Lorde’s feminist reading of the mastectomy. Refusing to consider breast cancer as a cosmetic problem\, Lorde writes\, “I also began to fee l that in the process of losing a breast I had become a more whole person. ” Following Elaine Scarry’s assertion that pain is resistant to language\, this paper considers the medium of photography and the affordances of soc ial media such as Instagram as sites which allow for the expressions of pa in\, grief\, and mourning on the patient’s own terms.\n\n \n\nCommemoratio n and Desecration: LGBT Visibility and National Memory in Vilnius\, Lithua nia –– Clinton Glenn\n\nDuring the 2019 Baltic Pride March for Equality in Vilnius\, Lithuania\, an anonymous individual scaled the statue of the ni neteenth-century proto-feminist Lithuanian writer Žemaitė and tied a pride flag around her head. In response to images of the incident going viral\, conservative blogger Cepilinus complained to local police\, stating that the act violated a Lithuanian law forbidding the desecration of national m onuments or places of mourning. More recently\, the municipal administrati on of Vilnius has taken concerted efforts to remove memorials to controver sial figures of Lithuanian history\, particularly those connected with the partisan movement during the Second World War who had posthumously been a ccused of collaboration with the Nazis. This talk explores the contentious nature of monuments in Lithuania\, particularly concerning the rising vis ibility of LGBT activism in the country and the conservative backlash that this has entailed. In particular\, right-wing activists have accused the Vilnius city administration of being in league with LGBT rights activists\ , leading to the desecration of Lithuanian national history and identity. I also examine how the contentious nature of national memorial is linked t o Lithuanian identity\, and by extension\, the fight against “gay propagan da” and LGBT visibility in the public sphere.\n DTSTART:20210126T210000Z DTEND:20210127T000000Z SUMMARY:AHCS Student Speaker Series #2 URL:/ahcs/channels/event/ahcs-student-speaker-series-2 -327832 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR