Queering Religious Paradigms: Critical Approaches to Gender & Sexuality/-ies in Religious Thought and Practices in connection with our friends from Transgressive Religions
Keynotes
Prof. Dr. Naomi Goldenberg (Ottawa) – “The Religious is Political” – Queering Masculinist Foundations of the Nation-State
(Queering Paradigms Keynote)
Prof. Dr. Melissa M. Wilcox (Riverside, CA), Daddies, Fathers, Sisters, Folk: Meditations on Religion and Kinship in Queer Spaces
(Transgressive Religion Keynote, 28 June)
Speakers (A-Z)
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Auga (President, International Association of Religion and Gender, Berlin), Life, Biopolitics, Bioethics and Religion in Japan and Germany
Ven. Prof. Chao-hwei 釋昭慧 (Taipei) – 台灣同志運動的佛法觀點 A Buddhist View on Queer Activism in Taiwan
Dr. Diego Garcia Rodriguez (London) – Islam, Internal Migration and Queer Travels in Indonesia
Prof. Dr. Hsiao-Lan Hu (Detroit) – Multiply Queered, Singularly Queered, Victimhood, and Spiritual Growth
Vinod Kumar, MA (Delhi) – Sexless Bachelors, Monogamous Couples, and Promiscuous Kings in Ancient India
Prof. Dr. Kathleen McPhillips (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) – Nuns and Abuse: Queering Women Religious in the Sexual Abuse Crisis
Dr Leo Raznovich (Grand Cayman) – Religion, Law, and LGBTIQ+ Human Rights: Recent Challenges in the Caribbean
Rabbi Mark L. Solomon (London) – ‘By Way of His Maleness’: The Rabbinic Inscription of Gender on Intersex Bodies and its Implications for Male and Transmasculine Gay Identity
Prof. Dr. Bee Scherer (Amsterdam) – Indecenting Jesus and the Buddha: Detoxing Masculinities in Sacred Biographies
Prof. Dr. Peter-Ben Smit (Amsterdam) – Queer History: ‘Queer’ as a Heuristic and Historiographical Category in Biblical Interpretation
