PODCASTS

NEW BOOKS NETWORK

I serve as a host for the New Books in Gender Studies (part of the New Books Network). In this capacity, I interview authors of academic monographs and edited volumes that provide a feminist perspective on a wide range of topics—gender and sexuality, queer theory, environmental studies, social justice, securitization and peace, violence, law, and digital cultures.

LIGHT ON! QUEERE KULTUR UND GESCHICHTE

Together with my team in the “Light On!” project, I run the podcast “Light On! Queere Kultur und Geschichte” (in German), in which we shine light on the research in queer histories and cultures in the German-speaking area.

TALKS

UPCOMING TALKS

2026  Westplaining the Long 1990s in Azerbaijan: Tensions between Gender and Religion on the Pages of Azerbaijan International, talk at the conference Transnationalizing Gender: Azerbaijan’s Cultures and Heritage in Conversation with Others, Regensburg, Oct 22–24

2026  “Montage als Sensibilität von den Rändern? Zur Ästhetik des queer-feministischen Dokumentartheaters in Russland,” talk at the 15. Slavistiktag 2026, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Sep 30–Oct 3.

2026 “Fractured Identities: Reading Gender and Tradition on the Move in Egana Jabbarova,” speaker at the panel “Dialogue across Cultures: International Perspectives on Women’s Voices in Azerbaijani Literature,” 11th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL), University of Leeds, August 24-28, 2026.

2026    “Where Can Margins of Memory Take Us? Theorising Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance,” online talk with Volha Bartash at the 4EU+ Virtual Course on Memory Studies.

2026 “Queer Worlds in Russia between Liberation and Erasure: Landscapes of Subversive Gender and Sexuality on Stage, Page, and Screen from Perestroika to the Invasion of Ukraine,” online talk at the NECS Feminist and Queer Research Workgroup Talk Series.

PAST TALKS (selection, past two years)

2025    “Russian and Russophone art / culture institutions in exile,” roundtable
ICCEES 2025 (Jul 21–25, 2025), London, UK

2025 “Queer Memory after Socialism: AI and Georgian Retrofuturities,” speaker at the panel “Margins of Memory: Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance,” MSA 2025, Prague (Jul 14–18).

2024    “Homonationalism in Eastern Europe? Interrogating the Concept,” roundtable
ASEEES 2024 (Nov 21–24), Boston, MA

2024 “Queere und Gender-Kriege in Europas Osten,” Veranstaltungen im Pride-Monat, University of Tübingen (Jun 25)

2024  “What Was Russian Queer Theater?” talk at the conference Criminalized Again: Culture(s) of LGBTQI+ in Search of Freedom, Harriman Institute at Columbia University, NY, USA (Apr 12–13)

2024 speaker in a roundtable session “New Trends in Translating Russian Literature,” University of Leeds Centre for World Literature and Centre for Translation Studies, Zoom event (Mar 13)