If you are in Stockholm for State of The Art: Crisis imaginaries, Techno-utopias, or Possible (Sustainable) Futures?: A panel discussion and a book launch, taking place on 30th October at 18:00 CET at Bonniers Konsthall, please, make sure to check out the exciting event organised by our collaborators from Stockholm University, namely the Genusakademin higher seminar with Prof. Em. Nina Lykke on “Figuring Femme: Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism”! See more info below.

“Figuring Femme: Ecologies Between Critical Posthumanism and Queer Femme-inism”

Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024

Time: 14.00 – 15.30

Location: Minerva, Gula villan, Stockholm University Campus Frescati

Abstract:

The lecture focuses on the figuration of femme, understood as a non-unitary, queer non-normative feminine subject position, and the ways in which it has given rise to a feminism – femme-inism – which understands ”femininity” as ”an often overlapping but separate construct from ’woman’ or ’female’”, and that ”does not treat women and femininity synonymously” (as defined in the preamble for the new Journal of Femininities, Brill Publishers, 2024). Firstly, I will introduce to key questions in femme theory, as it has been unfolding in recent decades (in Sweden, for example,  developed by Ulrika Dahl, Skamgrepp, 2014). Secondly, I will discuss how my forthcoming book, Cancer Ecologies: A Queer Femme Proposition, co-authored with Camila Marambio, puts queer femme-inism in conversation with critical posthumanism as a framework for a rethinking of ecological issues and new alliances with the more-than-human world.

Bio

Nina Lykke, Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark, is a queerfemme-inist philosopher-poet. Current research:  queer death studies, intersectionality, feminist posthumanism, queerfemme theory, queer ecologies, poetic writing. Author of numerous articles, edited volumes and monographs such as  Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010),  Vibrant Death (2022 ) and Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters (2024, with K.Aglert and L.Henrksen).