Selection, past 12 months
CONFERENCES | PRESENTER
| 2025 | “Queer Literary Cultures under Socialism”. Conference “Queer Creativity: Bringing Eastern Europe and Central Asian LGBTQ+ Research to Life”. Wadham College. February, 21, Oxford. |
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| 2025 | “Queer identity in contemporary art and culture of Central Asia.” International Conference on “Geopolitics, Migrations and Identities in Central Eurasia.” CESS-ESCAS. January 8-10, Lisbon. Panel convenor. |
| 2024 | “Queer Literatures and Cultures in (Soviet) Central Asia,” International Workshop “Zentralasien trans/regional”. DIMAS, University of Regensburg. November 8-9, Regensburg. |
| 2024 | “Queer Central Asia: Literatures and Cultures.” SMIR: Colloquium der Promovierenden und Postdocs der slavischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. University of Regensburg. April 16, Regensburg. |
PUBLIC TALKS & LECTURES
| 2025 | Panel Participant | Roundtable Teaching Audre Lorde’s ‘Notes on a Trip to Russia’, University of South Florida, April 11, Online. | | --- | --- | | 2025 | Guest Lecture, “(Queer) Feminist Resistance and Art Practices from Central Asia”. February 26. Homerton College, University of Cambridge. | | 2025 | Guest Lecture, “Queer Cultures and Literatures in (Soviet) Central Asia”. Politics and Sociology Seminar. February 27. UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London. | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “Queer Feminist Movements and Art in Central Asia”. Seminar Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan, “Central Asia from Independence to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 1991-2022,” November 8. University of Regensburg. | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “Queer Culture in (Soviet) Central Asia” BULT, October 16. Almaty (Kazakhstan). | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “How does subaltern speak? Central Asian Art and Performance” Narxoz, October 16, Almaty (Kazakhstan). | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “Queer Central Asia: Literatures and Cultures.” Knizhnaya Lavka, September 12, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “Queer Feminist Movements and Art in Central Asia”. Feminism and Psychology Seminar Prof. Mohira Suyarkulova. American University of Central Asia. September 17, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “Queer Cultures in Central Asia”. LGBTIQ Plattform. August 23, Almaty (Kazakhstan). | | 2024 | Invited Speaker | “The Politics of Holodomor and Asharshylyk. Exploring Personal and Collective and Histories Through Food,” Cooking with Mama Series, Political Kitchen. July 20, Berlin. | | 2024 | Panel participant | “Live Podcast: Diversität im Fokus: Dynamik und postmigrantische Perspektiven im Kontext von PostOst,” Zukunftswerkstatt Diversity Check Ost/West, X3 Podcast + o[s]tklick. June 15, Hamburg. | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “Queer Identity in Contemporary Art of Kazakhstan”. Olar Collective Almaty. June 17, Online. | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “Homosexuality Under the Soviet Regime: Laws, Persecution, and Art”. Unit History. June 10, Oświęcim (Poland). | | 2024 | Guest Lecture, “Queer Feminist Movements and Art in Central Asia”. Queer Studies Week. Fribourg University. May 17, Switzerland. | | 2024 | Invited Speaker, “Queer Stories From Central Asia and South Caucasus”. Malmö Queer Film Festival. April 19-21, Malmö (Sweden). |
