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Online Seminars
Engage with Global Experts in Queer Kinship
The Network regularly hosts online seminars featuring experts from around the globe, delving into theories and insights on Queer Kinship. Don’t miss the chance to engage in these lively discussions—join the debate!
NEXT SEMINAR:
Thursday 26 June 2025
5 pm (Italy) - 4 pm (UK) - 11 am (Toronto & East Coast)
Heike Bauer (Birbeck, University of London)
Pets Portraits and Sapphic Modernism: Queer Kinship beyond the Human
How do human-animal relations expand and problematize the limits and possibilities of kinship? Queer scholarship has substantially expanded traditional ideas about kinship. Yet it tends to focus on the lives of humans despite the fact that many of the people who transgress the gender and sexual norms and expectations of their time share their life with non-human companions. This paper gives centre stage to the pets and strays that populate LGBTQ+ culture in the period from around 1900 to the 1940s, a transformative moment in both queer and animal history. It examines portraits of non-human animals ranging from private snapshots of the Old English Sheepdogs of composer Ethel Smyth to the carefully staged portraits of the cats of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun to consider the complexities of interspecies relations and their place in modern queer history.
Heike Bauer is Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on queer history including The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture (2017) and the co-edited special issue of Radical History Review, ‘Visual Archives of Sex’ (2022). She is now working on the intersections between animal and LGBTQ+ histories. ‘In the Canine Archives of Sex: Radclyffe Hall, Una Troubridge and their Dogs’, is out with Gender & History (2022).
Watch our live seminars:
Valentina Amenta e Claudia Fauzia
Il femminismo terrone come soggetto politico: genere, colonialità e antimeridionalismo
Irene Villa in dialogo con Giulia Sbaffi & il Queer Kinship Network
La minaccia color lavanda. Il lesbismo nella teoria femminista e queer
13 February 2025
Flyer | Video
Veronica Frigeni & Andrea O'Reilly
Maternità femministe: Translating Matricentric Feminism into the Italian Context
27 March 2025
Ramona Onnis
Come rompere il silenzio. I racconti della procreazione assistita
22 May 2025
Past events:
Valentina Amenta e Claudia Fauzia
Il femminismo terrone come soggetto politico: genere, colonialità e antimeridionalismo
Irene Villa in dialogo con Giulia Sbaffi & il Queer Kinship Network
La minaccia color lavanda. Il lesbismo nella teoria femminista e queer
13 February 2025
Flyer | Video
Veronica Frigeni & Andrea O'Reilly
Maternità femministe: Translating Matricentric Feminism into the Italian Context
27 March 2025
Ramona Onnis
Come rompere il silenzio. I racconti della procreazione assistita
22 May 2025
Valentina Amenta e Claudia Fauzia
Il femminismo terrone come soggetto politico: genere, colonialità e antimeridionalismo
Irene Villa in dialogo con Giulia Sbaffi & il Queer Kinship Network
La minaccia color lavanda. Il lesbismo nella teoria femminista e queer
13 February 2025
Flyer | Video
Veronica Frigeni & Andrea O'Reilly
Maternità femministe: Translating Matricentric Feminism into the Italian Context
27 March 2025
Ramona Onnis
Come rompere il silenzio. I racconti della procreazione assistita
22 May 2025
Valentina Amenta e Claudia Fauzia
Il femminismo terrone come soggetto politico: genere, colonialità e antimeridionalismo
Irene Villa in dialogo con Giulia Sbaffi & il Queer Kinship Network
La minaccia color lavanda. Il lesbismo nella teoria femminista e queer
13 February 2025
Flyer | Video
Veronica Frigeni & Andrea O'Reilly
Maternità femministe: Translating Matricentric Feminism into the Italian Context
27 March 2025
Ramona Onnis
Come rompere il silenzio. I racconti della procreazione assistita
22 May 2025