This panel will discuss different ways in which conflict and queer can be thought together. We think about ‘conflict’ broadly, being wary of confining conflict to already stigmatised and marginalized geographies. We think about different conflict-enabling structures, such as neoliberalism, nationalism, colonialism and authoritarianism, and how queer politics can make interventions into them.

Chair: Jamie J. Hagen

• Dibyesh Anand (University of Westminster, London): ‘Contemporary Colonialisms, Queering Nationalisms’

• Evren Savcı (Yale University): ‘Neoliberal Islam and Securitization of Queers’

• Lukasz Szulc (University of Sheffield): ‘Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanism: Polish queers in the UK in Times of Growing Authoritarianism’

To see the full 'Queering Authoritarianisms: Conflict, Resistance, and Coloniality' programme and sign up for other sessions visit: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29301