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Please join us for a talk with Franko Dota, historian and postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Croatia. Franko Dota, PhD is a historian and postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Croatia, where he teaches courses on historical theory and methodology. His doctoral dissertation, completed in 2017 at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, is the first broad historical reconstruction of the political, legal and medical history of male homosexuality in socialist Yugoslavia (1943-1989). He is also the author of a book on conflicting memories and narratives of migrations of Italians from Istria following World Word II (Zaraćeno poraće, Zagreb, 2010). Franko Dota is active in the Croatian LGBT movement and was among the founding members of Zagreb Pride organization.