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In case you are in Sthlm on 30<sup>th</sup> October (and hopefully joining us all at Bonniers:
<a href="https://ecobioartlab.net/2024/10/07/state-of-the-art-crisis-imaginaries-techno-utopias-or-possible-sustainable-futures-panel-discussion-at-bonniers-konsthall/">
https://ecobioartlab.net/2024/10/07/state-of-the-art-crisis-imaginaries-techno-utopias-or-possible-sustainable-futures-panel-discussion-at-bonniers-konsthall/</a>) - you may also want to check out this wonderful seminar with Prof. Em. Nina Lykke. See below
for details.</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Seminar with Nina Lykke: Figuring Femme. Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism</div>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Welcome everyone to a seminar with Professor
<b>Nina Lykke</b> on “<b>Figuring Femme: Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism</b>”</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Location: Minerva, Gula villan, Stockholm University Campus Frescati</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Abstract:</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Figuring Femme: Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The lecture focuses on the figuration of femme, understood as a non-unitary, queer non-normative feminine subject position, and the ways in which it has
given rise to a feminism – femme-inism - which understands ”femininity” as ”an often overlapping but separate construct from ’woman’ or ’female’”, and that ”does not treat women and femininity synonymously” (as defined in the preamble for the new
<i>Journal of Femininities</i>, Brill Publishers, 2024). Firstly, I will introduce to key questions in femme theory, as it has been unfolding in recent decades (in Sweden, for example, developed by Ulrika Dahl,
<i>Skamgrepp,</i> 2014). Secondly, I will discuss how my forthcoming book, <i>Cancer Ecologies: A Queer Femme Proposition</i>, co-authored with Camila Marambio, puts queer femme-inism in conversation with critical posthumanism as a framework for a rethinking
of ecological issues and new alliances with the more-than-human world.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Bio</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Nina Lykke,</b> Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark, is a queerfemme-inist philosopher-poet.
Current research: queer death studies, intersectionality, feminist posthumanism, queerfemme theory, queer ecologies, poetic writing. Author of numerous articles, edited volumes and monographs such as
<i>Cosmodolphins</i> (2000), <i>Feminist Studies</i> (2010), <i>Vibrant Death</i> (2022 ) and
<i>Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters</i> (2024, with K.Aglert and L.Henrksen).</span></p>
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