Zentrum für Gender- und Diversitätsforschung (ZGD)

Program

Thursday, 26 February 2026

09:30 - 10:30Registration and Coffee
10:30 - 10:50

Gero Bauer and Davina Höll

Welcome and Introduction

10:50 - 12:10
Panel 1: Space and Matter

Chair: Anya Heise-von der Lippe (University of Tübingen)

Tim Waterman (University College London)

Landscape, Landship, and the Timespace of Queer Ecology

Holly Patch (Technical University of Dortmund)

Gendered Timescapes of Farm Ecologies

12:10 – 13:10Lunch
13:10 – 14:30 
Panel 2: Time and Affect

Chair: Ingrid Hotz-Davies (University of Tübingen)

Alexander Scherr (University of Giessen)

Queer Affect in the Age of Too-Late-Modernity

Anna Tambo Bredmose (University of Copenhagen)

A Queer Temporality of Stones: Making Ecofiction Matter in the Anthropocene

14:30 – 15:00Coffee
15:00 – 17:00 
Panel 3: Water

Chair: Mrunmayee Sathye (Tübingen)

Gabs Dumfahrt Pérez (University of Potsdam)

Flowing Otherwise: Brown Water and Temporal Refusals

Camila Stipo (University of Warwick)

Gestational Care Practices and Multispecies Survival: Human Rights and Water Justice Activism in Chile

M. E. Boothby (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Deep Sea, Deep Time & the Hive Mind: Neuroqueering Communicative Bodyminds in Oceanic Swarm Narratives

17:00 – 18:00Break
18:00

Keynote Lecture

Sylvan Goldberg (Colorado College)

Spontaneous Generation: Parentless Children and the Politics of Nonreproductive Futurity

20:00Conference Dinner

 


Friday, 27 February 2026

8:30Coffee
09:00 - 11:00
Panel 4: Infrastructures

Chair: Karolina Heck (University of Flensburg)

Andrija Filipović (Singidunum University)

Temporal Collapse: Cruising, Darkrooms, and Environmental Non-Philosophy

Cannelle Gueguen-Teil (University of Oxford)

Queer Conceptualisations of Time in Ecological Discourses and Struggles: 

An Ethnography of Queer Perspectives in France

John Bingham-Hall (Paris School of Architecture)

Rubbing Up Against Tree Time: Queer Ecological Temporalities Against Infrastructural Chrononormativity

11:00Coffee
11:30 - 12:30

Collective Activation

Benny Nemer (KASK & Conservatorium Ghent)

Trees Are Fags

12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 15:30
Panel 5: Ethics – Relationality – Care

Chair: Jessica Bundschuh (University of Stuttgart)

Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne (University of California, Los Angeles)

Indigiqueer Ecologies, Apocalypse, and the Possibilities for Ethical Nonviolence

Jordi Serrano-Muñoz (Ghent University)

A Gentle Extinction: Disasters and Nonhegemonic Care in Under the Eye of the Big Bird, by Kawakami Hiromi

Caitríona Ní Dhúill (University of Salzburg)

‘Ritual is the Anti-Machine’: Relational Rigour and Liveable Form in Times of Ecocide

15:30 - 16:00Coffee
16:00 - 17:00Final Discussion and Publication Plans