This webinar focuses on the challenges surrounding LGBTQIA+ in- and ex-clusion in academia, discussing different intersecting forms of anti-queerness and anti-transness within higher education. We discuss how to support and strengthen the crucial work being done to support LGBTQIA+ communities in academia.

Speaker:
Dr. Irina Schmitt, Senior Lecturer, Lund University (Mundane resistance to trans lives in academia – and looking for hope in the cracks)

Irina Schmitt (irina) is a lecturer in Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Irina's research focuses on trans- and queer-feminist educational research with a focus on organizations where knowledge is produced and the national is inscribed, such as schools and colleges. Another field of interest is queer trans feminist pedagogies. Irina is a member of the employees’ network LGBTQ-LU.

 

Key Objectives:
1. Different forms of anti-queerness
2. LGBTQIA+ work at universities
3. Practices of queer & trans resistance in higher education