Schedule
Monday, October 21, 2024
welcome
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
Welcome & Introductions
Panel 1
10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Sex workers and sexual economies
Chair: AJ Kurdi (UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies)
Comments: Moisés Fernández-Cano and Helen Laura Reichelt

Elisabeth Kimmerle, University of Potsdam
Negotiating Intimate Boundaries. Gender, Sexuality, and Migration in 1960s West Germany

Mona Rudolph, Kiel University
Migrant Women in West German Prostitution: Agency, Networks, and Discrimination
break
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Panel 2
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Trajectories of Violence
Chair: Isabel Richter (GHI Washington)
Comments: Ignacio Elpidio Domínguez Ruiz and
Agnes Gehbald

Farhana Afrin Rahman, University of Cambridge
Gendered Subjectivities in Bangladesh’s Rohingya Refugee Camps

Sarah Ernst, USC
Eick, Plant, Wolff: A Study of Queer (Un)Belonging Among German Jewish Refugees1
break
2:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
Panel 3
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Mapping Intersections between Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Chair: Sandra Eder (UC Berkeley, Dept. of History)
Comments: Soheil Asefi and Elisabeth Kimmerle

Giselle Bernard, European University Institute
Crossing borders, Becoming Other: the Journeys of Aimée Duc from Germany to India; from Heteronormative Marriage and Motherhood to Queer Entrepreneurship

Jamel Buhari, Leiden University
A ‘Heterosexual’ and ‘Homophobic’ Continent? Dutch Perceptions of African Sexuality Politics and African Queer Migration from 1980 – 2024
Dinner
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Workshop Dinner
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Panel 4
9:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Female Trajectories around 1900
Chair: Viola Alianov-Rautenberg (GHI, Berkeley)
Comments: Farhana Afrin Rahman, Giselle Bernhard, and Mona Rudolf

Agnes Gehbald, University of Bern
Out of Patriarchal Structures: Multiple Migration Trips and Female Mobility around 1900”

Helen Laura Reichelt, Leipzig University
Cross-border Contacts & Mobilities of Women in the Early Workers’ Movement, ca. 1870-1890
break
11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch
Panel 5
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Diasporas and Queer (Un)Belonging
Chair: Benno Gammerl, European University Institute
Comments; Jamel Buhari und Sarah Ernst

Soheil Asefi, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Narratives of QPoC Activism Against Gentrification and Imperialism: Beyond Bars to Battlefronts

Moisés Fernández-Cano, European University Institute & Ignacio Elpidio Domínguez Ruiz, University of Barcelona
There’s no Place like Home: Sexilio and Metronormativity in Contemporary and Historical Queer Studies in Spain
break
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:45- 4:30 p.m.
Closing Round
Dinner
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Dinner (self pay)
Jupiter Beerpub