Launch event for new Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics

Location: Chemistry SR (1.53g)

Please join us for the launch of the new LCS Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics, 4 December 2025, from 15:00-17:00, in Chemistry SR (1.53g). 

The programme to celebrate the new Centre includes a keynote: 'Queer Anti-Nationalism in Right-Wing Times', by Dr. Alyosxa Tudor, Chair of the Department of Gender Studies, SOAS, introductions to the aims of the Centre from the Directors, and a reception.

The Centre advances interdisciplinary research in global queer cultures and politics, paying special attention to local histories and intercultural, polycentric, multilingual exchanges, in both contemporary and historical settings. Engaging queer topics and methodologies, as well as a queer ethics of care, the Centre supports researchers, scholars and educators, including post-graduate (MAR and PhD) researchers. Through equitable, collaborative work, the Centre also seeks to support the visibility of global queer activists, artists, writers, and all those involved in thinking critically and creatively about queer cultures and politics.'

Please contact Helen Finch (mailto:h.c.finch@leeds.ac.uk) or Vlad Strukov (mailto:v.strukov@leeds.ac.uk) for more information about the launch and the new Centre.