Aan wie denken we als het gaat over mensen die niet gehoord of gezien worden? Wat zit er in de weg en hoe kunnen die barrières worden overwonnen? En als we zelf wel gehoord worden, wat kunnen we dan doen om ook de niet gehoorde stem te laten klinken? In dit symposium verkennen we in […]
While the history of the LGBTQIA (Lesbienne-Bi-Trans-Queer-Intersex-Asexual-Asexual-Asexual-Asexual) communities is included in sections of board museums, there are few that are devoted exclusively to them, such as the Schwules Museum in Berlin (1985), the Unstraight Museum in Stockholm (2011), the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco (2011). In the more particular field of art, specialized agencies […]
We are at a time when critical knowledges and minoritarian politics are contested by a variety of actors, ranging from social movements to political parties and institutions. Think of the – by now (in)famous – anti-gender and anti-feminist discourses that pervade the global landscape, casting sexual and gender education as well as reproductive and LGBTQIA+ […]
Queer history commonly refers to the study and documentation of the lives, experiences, cultures, and struggles and joys of LGBTQ+ people in the past. It covers a wide range of topics, including how gender and sexual diversity has been expressed, understood, and regulated in different societies, as well as how political, social, and cultural movements […]
The international conference Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History aims to discuss and critically explore the “queer” in queer and trans history. We invite dialogues about and engagement with methodologies, temporalities, theories and analytical approaches that interpret, imagine and preserve queer and trans history as queer. The conference will be held with in-person attendance.
The aim of the ‘Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: Roles, norms and transgressions’ conference, to be held in Paris on 12 and 13 June 2025, is, through the various communications which will be proposed, to establish an overview of the issues surrounding gender roles and sex relations in Ancient Egypt. This approach is in […]