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Queer Convivialities

Program

October 7, 2026

1-3pm Welcome and Networking Session
3-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30-5:30pm Public Keynote by Elif Sari (University of British Columbia): “Stuckness, Carcerality, and How to Find Queer Exits”
6:30-8pm Conference Dinner
8pm onwards Social Outing: “Held:innenbar”

 

October 8, 2026

10-12am Panel “Public Intimacy”
  • Max Schnepf (Freie Universität Berlin): “At Arm’s Length: Living with the Ghosts of HIV/Aids and Pandemic Echoes”
  • Kaue Bellini (University of Basel): “Synthetic Intimacy: modulating closeness among queer men”
  • Inga Haaland (University of Oslo): “Public Intimacies and Precarious Care: Queer Life after Donor Withdrawal in Kenya”
  • Chair: TBA
12-1pm Lunch Break

1-3pm

 Public Keynote by Elisabeth Engebretsen (University of Stavanger): “The Menace of Misdirected Sex Panics”: Queer Autoethnography and the Public Politics of Sexuality”

3-3:30pm

 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30pm Roundtable “Families and Reproduction”
  • Caroline Chautems (University of Lausanne): “Bridging reproductive gaps: Queer birth work in California”
  • Carole Ammann (Universität Luzern): ““Our Situation Isn't Really Provided for" - Implications of Legal Circumstances on Queer Parenting in Switzerland”
  • Leo Theissing (Universität Luzern): “Ethnography in the chat: Rethinking presence through trans parents’ diaries”
  • Tamara Bosshardt (Universität Luzern): “Queer solidarity: The potential and limits of personal support networks beyond the nuclear family”
  • Moderators: Catalina Kranner and Lynn Kohli (Universität Zürich)
6:30-8pm Conference Dinner 

October 9, 2026

10-12am Panel “Convivial Atmospheres”
  • Uddipta Roy (University of Maryland-College Park): “Atmospheres: On transgender life-worlds amidst waste”
  • Stefan Binder (Universität Zürich): “Trans-Feminization: Topologies of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Hyderabad”
  • Tianyu Jiang (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien): “Researching and Writing Queer Club Scenes: Reflexivity, Embodiment, Proximity”
  • Chair: Paola Juan (Universität Zürich)
12-1pm Lunch Break
1-3pm Roundtable “Categories, Identities, Communities”
  • Qing Shen (ICI Berlin): “Cruising at the margins: Older gay men, queer memory, and vicarious erotic citizenship in Shanghai’s urban green spaces”
  • Henrike Kraul (Freie Universität Berlin): “Labels: discursive orientations for the sexual self”
  • Vasiliki Polykarpou (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences): “Between ethnography and autoethnography: Exploring queer alliances in contemporary Athens”
  • Banhishikha Ghosh (University of Sunderland): “Transgender subjectivities, surveillance, and digital transitions in India”
  • Moderator: Kwaku Adomako (University of Bern)

3-3:30pm

 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30pm Panel “Friendship and Queer Methodologies in the City”
  • Kumud Rana (Lancaster University): “Friendship and the Ethics of Research”
  • Anne Kukuczka (Universität Zürich): “In the Meantime: Friendship, Fun and Fragile Freedoms”
  • Matea Korda (University of Zadar): “Dungeons and Dragons: Considering the Potential of Role-Playing Games in Becoming a Practice of Queer Conviviality”
  • Chair: Claudia Liebelt (Freie Universität Berlin)

October 10, 2026

9-11am Networking Session
11:30-1:30pm Social Event: “Kreuz und Queer”
  • Guided City Tour on Zürich’s LGBTQ+ history, organized by “Visit Zürich”