Graphic Recording by Ka Schmitz: Panel “Advancing Lesbian* Visibility in Research” at the Intersectionality and LGBTI Policies in Europe Conference, Berlin 2020
Invited Talks
“Widerstände gegen Intersektionalität: Eine Einordnung”, Lunch Lectures – FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 31.01.2024
“Anti-racist Feminism and the Cultural Politics of Democracy”, 2023 Emma Goldman Awards, IWM Vienna, 08.09.2023.
“Intersectional Racisms in Europe: Contesting the Spatial and Temporal Politics of Denial”, Doctoral School NCCR – The Migration Mobility Nexus, University of Neuchatel, 12.05.2023.
“’Haben wir denn überhaupt ein Problem?!’ Spannungsverhältnisse bei der Thematisierung von Rassismus an Schweizer Hochschulen’, Tagung Umgang mit Rassismus an Schweizer Hochschulen, Think Tank Gender & Diversity, University of Berne, 28.04.2023.
“LGBTQ Parents in the Swiss Alps: Lived Experiences and Negotiations of Rurality”, Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, 25.04.2023
“Intersections between Post-feminism and Post-racialism”, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University, 14.03.2023
“Modern Reactionaries, Mainstream Racisms: How Far-Right Actors Navigate Post-Homophobic Europe”, Race Religion Secularism Network, Radboud University, 13.03.2023
“Re-reading Postfeminism Intersectionally”, Gender Hotspot Colloquium, Radbound University, 14.03.2022
“Postracialisme et vulnérabilité”, Journée d’étude “Race et blanchité: penser la norme”, Université de Lausanne, 08.09.2021
“Racism in Switzerland” (together with Prof Dr Yvonne Riaño) Understanding race, racism and antiracism in migration studies, comparatively across Europe and beyond, International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE), online, 12.02. 2021
“Feministische Widerstände gegen Intersektionalität” (Feminist Resistances Against Intersectionality) Vortragsreihe des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums, Universität Luzern, Switzerland, 13.11. 2020
“European Equality and Anti-Discrimination Policies for Lesbian,Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Women*”, Closed Expert Workshop hosted by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ), Berlin November 2019
„Policy Talk: Rassismus Intersektional Denken“ (Understanding Racism Intersectionally), 3. Bundeskongress der Neuen Deutschen Organisationen "Inklusiv 4.0 Der Plural sind wir", Berlin, 09.03.2018
„Aktuelle Herausforderungen für lesbische Politiken in Europa“ (Current Challenges for Lesbian Politics in Europe), Workshop: Unerzählte LGBTQ Geschichten, University of Berne, 28.10.2017
“Intersectionality and the Post-Racial: A European Perspective”, Race and Racism Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA, 02.05.2017
“The Erotics of Cosmopolitanism: ‘Latin American Passion’ in European Popular Culture” Minor Cosmopolitan Theory Lecture Series, University of Potsdam, Germany, 21.04.2017
“‘Political Correctness’ oder die Unbenennbarkeit von Rassismus nach Köln: feministische Perspektiven auf migrationspolitische Debatten in Deutschland“ (Political Correctness and the Inability to Speak about Racism after Cologne: Feminist Perspectives on Debates about Migration in Germany) Ringvorlesung: Die "Flüchtlingskrise" als Feld rechtspopulistischer Mobilisierung, Universität Kassel, Germany, 12.01.2017 (together with Christiane Carri)
“The Making of ‘Refugee Patriarchy’ in Germany: Cologne, Race and Postfeminist Fantasies” A Cosmopolitan Europe? On Borders, Brexit and Burkinis. A seminar of the project Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Mediations of Expressivity, Social Space and Cultural Citizenship, Department of Philosophy and History of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, hosted by Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University, Ireland, 15.11.2016
“The Problem with ‘Homophobia’: Lesbian Salseras Negotiating (Un-) Comfortable Dance Spaces” Begehren und Sexualitäten: Praktiken – Imaginationen – Kodierungen, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 06.02.2015
Conference Presentations
“Post-Racial Vulnerabilities” European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), University of Ljubljana, 07.07.2022
“Democratic Vulnerabilities” 28th International Conference of Europeanists, University of Lisbon, 21.06.2022
“Navigating Valais: Lesbian and Trans* Parents’ Lived Experiences in Rural Alpine Switzerland”, Lesbian Lives Conference 2022: Solidarity, 05.03.2022
“Typically Valais? Community-based Participatory Action Research with Rainbow Families in Alpine Switzerland”, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. Stream: LGBTQ Lives in Rural Spaces, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, 31.08.2021
“Sexual Politics in Post-Racial Europe”, 18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2020, Zurich, 7.11.2020
“Relationality and Queer Critique“, Thinking Gender Justice — First Annual Conference of CGFS, Dublin, 22.05.2018
“What Makes Europe Post-homophobic?” RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. Stream: Resisting equalities and civil rights: Gender and Sexuality, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, 01.09.2016
“Who Can Demand Diversity in Post-Thinking Europe?” ESRC Conference Critical Diversities: Policies, Practices and Perspectives, London South Bank University, UK, 11.07.2014
“Exotic Titillations: Colour Discourses in European Salsa Communities" The Power of Colour Summer School, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, 24.07.2013
“You Have Fought for Freedom for So Many Years – Why Can’t You Grant Me My Freedom?” Feminism, Generational Difference and the Veil’ BSA Gender Study Group Conference Forthcoming Feminisms: Gender Activism, Politics and Theories, University of Leeds, UK, 26.10.2012
“Dancing in the Margins: Queer Salseras, Salsa Myths and Impossible Politics” CORD Special Topics Conference: Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 17.02.2017
“Speaking for Muslim Women in Switzerland: Postmodern Perspectives on Political Feminism in Switzerland” FWSA Annual Conference The Futures of Feminism: New Directions in Feminist, Women’s & Gender Studies, Brunel University, 06.07.2011