International Conference on 26 – 27 February 2026, University of Tübingen, Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD)
In recent political discourse, there has been a striking correlation between questions relating to the environment, the climate crisis, and environmental justice on the one hand and gender and sexuality on the other. At the same time, the climate crisis (and its denial) has been increasingly framed in terms of a new sense of temporal urgency: it is ‘high time’ that we reduce carbon emissions; it is already ‘too late’ to keep the rise in global temperatures within the boundaries of the Paris Agreement; and while some cling nostalgically to a past of carbon prosperity, some fight over how to best project, prepare for, or imagine a (better) future, while others turn away from future horizons to attend to the urgencies of the present.
This conference asks how insights from the field of ‘queer ecologies’ can be made productive for an analysis of social, cultural, and scientific conceptualisations of pasts, presents, and futures, and how ‘queer temporality’ can inspire ecological debates.
Please send your abstracts (not exceeding 300 words) along with a short bio to: gero.bauer@uni-tuebingen.de, davina.hoell@uni-tuebingen.de
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 April 2025
There will be no registration fee for the conference.
More Information: CfA Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination
