This event is created in collaboration with CEFRES and CETE-P and is supported by:
Choisir la cause des femmes, Project CoRe (Co-funded by the European Union, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports), Safe space kolektiv, Departement of Gender Studies Charles University, Mezipatra & Kolektiv Plusko+

Dates: March 12–13, 2026
Location: CEFRES & ÚČL, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English

Please register by clicking HERE.

Keynote Speakers
Jack HALBERSTAM (Columbia University)
Bogdan POPA (Transylvania University)

Organizing Committee

Albi K. (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Michaela RUMPÍKOVÁ (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Iwona JANICKA (CETE-P, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) 

Program

Thursday, 12 March 2026

Location: Na Florenci 3

9:00 – 9:15 Opening of the event

9:15-10:30 Keynote: Jack HALBERSTAM (Columbia University)
Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto
Chair: Albi K. 

10:30–10:45 Coffee Break

Panel 1: Trans Theory

10:45–12:15
Chair: Erman DOLMACI 

• 10:45–11:15
  Isak Løberg JACOBSEN (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
  Thinking with Trans Masculinity and the Reproductive Body: Queering the Womb/Livmor Beyond Medicalization
• 11:15–11:45
  Jája STANĚK (Charles University)
  Dissident Identities, Dissident Bodies: Exploring Preciado’s Countersexual Theory in Sapphic and Genderqueer Spaces
• 11:45–12:15
  Rakel JYLHÄ-VUORIO (University of Helsinki)
  Rightless Transness?

12:15–14:00 Lunch Break 

Panel 2: Queer Ecology

14:00–15:30
Chair: Dagmar LORENZ-MEYER

• 14:00–14:30
  Tris HEDGES (University of Copenhagen)
  My Neighbours, the Pigeons: Reflections on Queer Coalitions on City Corners
• 14:30–15:00
  Albi K. (SAV)
  Queer Eco Anarchism: Exploring Affects Beyond Human 
• 15:00–15:30
  Gabriela KOZAKIEWICZ (University of Warsaw)
  Becoming Plants, Becoming Relations: Queer Multispecies Intimacies in Speculative Plant Fiction

15:30–15:45 Coffee Break

Panel 3: Queer Materiality

15:45–17:15
Chair: Iwona JANICKA

• 15:45–16:15
  Arthur SÉGARD (New York University) & Anna LANGEWIESCHE (Columbia University)
  Odd Swarms: Reimagining Queer Relationalities through Interspecies Fictions in Animated Films
• 16:15–16:45
  Michaela RUMPÍKOVÁ (Charles University)
  Becoming-with-Queer-Objects: Relationality and Narratives of Bildung 
• 16:45–17:15
  Sarah DUBNÁ (UMPRUM)
  Cultivating the Wound: Stinging as a Practice-Led Method

Parallel Panels (Thursday)
Location: Na Florenci 3, Institute of Czech Literature (ÚČL)

Panel 4: Queer Spatialities

14:00–15:00
Chair: Michal PITOŇÁK (upper floor)

• 14:00–14:30
  Shane FARRAGHER (University of Amsterdam)
  “The Latex of the Land(scapes): Shame, Queer Ecologies, and the Politics of Uncontrollability in Romantic Ireland”
• 14:30–15:00
  Lukáš SAMEK (University of Ostrava)
  Queering Forms and Platforms: A Deleuzian Perspective

Friday, 13 March 2026

Location: Na Florenci 3

9:00 – 10:15 Keynote: Bogdan POPA (Transylvania University)
The Femme Fatale is Burning: Cars and the Deathdrive in Postsocialism
Chair: Michaela RUMPÍKOVÁ

10:15–10:30 Coffee Break

Panel 6: Queer Post-Soviet Theory

10:30–12:30
Chair: Ecem Nazlı ÜÇOK

• 10:30–11:00
  Mariya LEVITANUS (University of Edinburgh) & Polina KILITSYNA (University of Helsinki)
  Transformation in Emigration: Queer and Trans Narratives of Migration to Central Asia through a Decolonial Lens
• 11:00–11:30
  Isabel JACOBS (Czech Academy of Sciences)
  Hysterical Materialism: Platonov’s Philosophy of Touch
• 11:30–12:00
  Kostadin KARAVASILEV (University of Münster)
  Relating Across Queerness? An Example from LGBTQIA+ Activism in Bulgaria
• 12:00–12:30
  Magdalena MICHLOVÁ (Charles University)
  Queering Academia: Student Activism Resisting the Nexus of Post-Socialist Neoliberal, Anti-Gender, and Anti-Activist Discourses in Czechia

12:30–14:00 Lunch Break

Panel 7: Decolonizing Queerness

14:00–15:30
Chair: Tereza JIROUTOVÁ-KYNCLOVÁ

• 14:00–14:30
  Gee Imaan SEMMALAR (Kent Law School)
  Polymorphic Colonialities
• 14:30–15:00
  Erman DOLMACI (University of Cyprus)
  Becoming-Babutsa: Queer Ecologies in Divided Cyprus
• 15:00–15:30
  Ilkan Can İPEKÇİ (Sabancı University)
  Too Queer, Too Fat? So! Queer Materialities and Embodied Relations of Abjection among Fat Gay Men+ in Turkey

15:30–15:45 Coffee Break

Panel 8: Activist Strategies

15:45–17:15
Chair: Ivy HELMAN

• 15:45–16:15
  Hana DRŠTIČKOVÁ (Charles University)
  Neuro-Queering Practices in Activist Research
• 16:15–16:45
  ANONYMOUS
• Practicing Care Otherwise: Transmasculine Care Strategies and the Limits of Care in Berlin
• 16:45–17:15
  Iuliia IASHCHENKO (Sapienza University of Rome)
  Saving Queer Lives: Evacuation, Shelter, and Resistance during the Russo-Ukrainian War

Parallel Panels
Location: Na Florenci 3, Institute of Czech Literature (ÚČL)

Panel 9: Queering Technology

14:00–15:30
Chair: Tomáš SAMEK

• 14:00–14:30
  Duru Başak UĞURLU (Hacettepe University)
  Unbecoming Bodies: Queer Materialities of the Digital Grotesque
• 14:30–15:00
  Tetiana LEKHUSH (Central European University)
  Prompt Me to Fuck You: Queer Potentiality and Commodified Desire in Sexual Interactions with Virtual AI Partners
• 15:00–15:30
  Matěj HŘIB (Charles University)
  Materializing Sensibility: Internet Memes as Traces of Camp Reading

19:00 – Cinema Night
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be by Klára TASOVSKÁ

Location: Kino Atlas, 4, Ke Štvanici 371, 186 00 Karlín

20:30 Q&A with Jack HALBERSTAM and Bogdan POPA moderated by Jamie ROSE