16 Sep 2021
- 17 Sep 2021

ENQA Workshop 2021

Politics of Crisis

  • Valentini Sampethai (Panteion University): Solidarity and the affective politics of ‘crisis’
  • Laura Stark (University of Jyväskylä): The violence unseen: how structural inequalities and the re-closeting of gender perpetuate physical violence against geis in urban Tanzania
  • William Hébert (Carleton University): Crisis Narrative or Narrative Crisis? Trans Prisoners and the Story/ies of Canada’s Correctional Reform

Chair: Ellis Kokko (University of Edinburgh)

Re-thinking crisis and disaster through affect and embodiment

  • Omer Aijazi (Brunel University): Disasters as betrayal
  • Rishav Kumar Thakur (Columbia University): Travels through gondogul: immigrant presence and embodiment of crisis in Assam, India
  • Olimpia Burchiellaro (University of Westminster): Homocapitalism, LGBT rights and corporate power in Kenya: on extraction and seduction

Chair: Lars Aaberg (SOAS)

Keynote address: Omar Kasmani (Freie Universität Berlin)

Crises, refusals and insurgencies

  • Suparna Roy (University of Kalyani/Central Modern College of Education): Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: A Reflection on Indian Politics for a Future ‘Beyond Crisis’
  • Maya El Helou (University of Toronto): In the verge of something, anything, Maybe nothing and maybe life or the lack of thereof: Queer and Feminist insurgencies in Urban Beirut
  • A. Berkem Yanıkcan (Kadir Has University): Queering the Administration Crisis at Boğaziçi University: Sexual Politics and the Public University in Turkey
  • Manuel Bolz (University of Hamburg): Queering Revenge: Medicalization and psychologization of emotions and affects of crisis

Chair: Tunay Altay (Berlin)

Alternative frameworks for crisis and care

  • Monica Basbous (Architect, researcher, educator, map-maker, artist, Lebanon): Horizons beyond the world’s end
  • Josep Almudéver Chanzà (University of Edinburgh/Independent Scholar): Of nails, varnish, and kisses: the CampCare of the decaying non-human
  • Nadiya Chushak (Kiyv Mohyla Academy): Ethnography of human plant intimacies in Ukraine
  • Todd Nicewonger (Virginia Tech University), Stacey Fritz (Cold Climate Housing Research Center, Fairbanks, Alaska) and Lisa McNair (Virginia Tech): Queering design in Alaska

Chair: Lars Aaberg (SOAS)