[Liuhum] Fw: Seminar with Nina Lykke: Figuring Femme. Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism

[Marietta Radomska]

Dear all,

In case you are in Sthlm on 30th October (and hopefully joining us all at Bonniers: https://ecobioartlab.net/2024/10/07/state-of-the-art-crisis-imaginaries-techno-utopias-or-possible-sustainable-futures-panel-discussion-at-bonniers-konsthall/) - you may also want to check out this wonderful seminar with Prof. Em. Nina Lykke. See below for details.

Also, feel free to pass this on to anyone who might be interested.

All the best,
M


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Subject: Seminar with Nina Lykke: Figuring Femme. Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism


Welcome everyone to a seminar with Professor Nina Lykke on “Figuring Femme: Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism”



Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024

Time: 14.00 – 15.30

Location: Minerva, Gula villan, Stockholm University Campus Frescati



Abstract:

Figuring Femme: Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism

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 Journal of Femininities, 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, Skamgrepp, 2014). Secondly, I will discuss how my forthcoming book, Cancer Ecologies: A Queer Femme Proposition, 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.





Bio

Nina Lykke, 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  Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010),  Vibrant Death (2022 ) and Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters (2024, with K.Aglert and L.Henrksen).




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