Date: 17th November 2025, 17:30 - 19:00 Uhr
Agnes-Heller-Haus Seminarroom 11, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
Speaker
Dr. Sandeep Bakshi
Sandeep Bakshi (he/they) researches on transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Decolonial, Postcolonial and Queer Studies at University Paris Cité. He convened two research seminars, “Peripheral Knowledges” and “Empires, Souths, Sexualities,” (2019-2024) and currently co-convenes the research seminar, “Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair”.
Public Lecture
Following on from current interventions in critical thinking in a time of genocide and scholasticide (Lentin 2025; Hajir and Qato 2025), this talk foregrounds untoward but inseparable linkages of violence and emancipation in mapping out queer praxis of livability. Queer modes of thinking, doing, sensing, and surviving have developed a praxis of livability that defies its sticky relation with concurrent discourses upon violence and emancipation. In this talk, Dr. Sandeep Bakshi asks which operations of queer praxis in our violent era allow our generations to discuss emancipation without suturing it to demands of extreme racial and cultural violence. Since a queer refusal to partake in neo-liberal pinkwashing possesses the potential to create a space for queer liberatory praxis, how can it extend to make space for emancipatory solidarity?
Hosted by:
Dr. Sladjana Lazic and Dr. Sujatha Subramanian of the InnPeace - Research Centre for Peace and Conflict
