Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms
15-16 October 2026
University of Regensburg, October 15-16, 2026
Organizer: Martyna Miernecka
Day 1 – Thursday, 15 October 2026
14:00–14:30 Introduction
• Martyna Miernecka, University of Regensburg
14:30–15:00 Environmental Knowledge, Urban Planning, and a Critique of Eco-Heteronormativity
• Asmae Ourkiya and Simon Clark, European Geosciences Union
Queering the Ground: Queer Decolonial Ecofeminism, Masculinities, and Embodied Science Beyond Socialist Modernities
• Davina Vačkářová, Charles University Environment Centre
Challenging Eco-Heteronormativity Through Queer Ecology Perspective on Spontaneous Urban Green Spaces
15:00–15:15 Break
15:15–16:00 Labour, Mobility, and Ecologies of Care
• Andreea Elena Gabara, University of Milan
Transnational Body Ecologies: The Romanian ‘Badante’ and the Queer Labor of Care
• Mai Phuc Thinh, Monash University Melbourne / Duy Tan University Vietnam
Living Under the Stage: Queer Ecologies of Itinerant Performance in Late and Post-Socialist Southern Vietnam
• Jonas Paetsch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
“Eine Fliege zum Beispiel reicht schon!” Queer Ecological Relations Negotiated in Ulrich Berkes’ Eine schlimme Liebe (1987)
Day 2 – Friday, 16 October 2026
14:00–14:45 Futurity and Reproduction
• Lucia Direnberger, French National Center for Scientific Research
Documenting Cotton Production on Women’s Health in Tajik SSR: Early Knowledge Production by Central Asian Female Gynecologists (1970s-1980s)
• Katya Nikitina, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
The Hen of the Future, or Queer Motherhood and Multispecies Communism
• Andrija Filipović, Singidunum University
Children without a Father: Queer Ecologies and the Diagrammatization of Reproductive Cis Heterosexuality in Aleksandar Đ. Kostić Sexual Knowledge (1957)
14:45–15:00 Break
15:00–15:45 Queer Eco-Aesthetics and More-Than-Human Utopias
• Ella Rossman, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe
Imagining Queer Nonhuman Utopia: An Ecofeminist Interpretation of Valentina Kropivnitskaya’s Art
• Yiman Wang, University of California
Queer Fruits: the Ecological Unconscious of Socialist Cinema
• Ela Przybylo, Illinois State University
Making Queer Kin with Watercress in 1970s Poland: Reflecting on Teresa Murak’s Zasiew Art
15:45–16:00 Break
16:00–16:30 Memory and Environmental Afterlives
• Agnė Bagdžiūnait, Vilnius University
Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant during the Soviet era in Lithuania
• Anna Hodel Laszlo, University of Basel
Queer Ecologies of Survival: From Environmental Myth to Fragile Care in Late- and Post-Socialist Cultures
16:30–16:45 Conclusion
• Marianna Szczygielska, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
