Fish-Bowl: Queering Europe: anthropological perspectives in conversation

Jens Adam holds a position as senior researcher at the U Bremen Excellence Chair Research Group »Soft Authoritarianism«. As a cultural/social anthropologist he focuses especially on current struggles around democracy and public policy, the intersections of humanitarianism and political violence as well as on contributions to a ›critical Europeanization research‹.

Beate Binder is Professor of European Ethnology and Gender Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and currently, together with Sabine Hess, spokesperson for the Commission for Women’s and Gender Studies in the dgv. Her research focuses on the anthropology of the political, legal anthropology, urban anthropology, and (the history of) feminist cultural anthropology/queer theory.

Čarna Brković is Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Goettingen. Her work combines a focus on inequalities and power with an eye for social complexity and ambiguity. After her PhD at the University of Manchester, she started developing two projects. One explores what happens with humanitarian affect and practices in Eastern European semiperiphery and how the fall of socialism transformed humanitarianism in former Yugoslavia. Another looks at the experiences and practices of sexuality and freedom among gay men in Montenegro. Čarna’s most recent publications include an article “Minority sexualities, kinship, and non-autological freedom in Montenegro” in the Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale and the special issue on the “Anthropology of Gender in Montenegro” in Comparative Southeast European Studies.

Patrick Wielowiejski is a Ph.D. candidate in European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin. His research (supervised by Prof. Beate Binder and Prof. Sabine Hark) is located at the intersection of an anthropology of the far right and gender_queer studies. His dissertation is an ethnography of the role that homosexuality plays in far-right political imaginaries. He holds an M.A. in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a B.A. in German Linguistics and Gender Studies from Humboldt University Berlin.