Queer Survival, Organizing, and Worldmaking
Inaugural Summer School of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
22nd – 25th July 2025 Humboldt University, Berlin
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Submission deadline extended to 4 March 2025!
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Call for Participation School’s out for summer, or is it? The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group is excited to announce its inaugural Summer School, to be held from 22nd to 25th July at Humboldt University, Berlin in collaboration with the Emmy Noether research group “Sound System Epistemologies: Knowledge engendered through practice”.
This event will celebrate the rich histories of queer organizing and mutual aid, with a focus on the politics of LGBTQ+ worldmaking. Thinking through the politics of place, we seek to amplify Central and Eastern European queer sonic histories in one of the globe's so-called “gay havens,” attuning to Berlin's famously queer electronic dance music and nightlife, though submissions are welcome on any queerly musical encounters.
The event format will prioritise mutual learning, sharing, and creativity, through reading groups, zine-making, writing workshops, soundwalks, excursions into nightlife, music and dance workshops, as well as keynote sessions and brief artistic and scholarly presentations. We hereby invite scholars, artists, and activists who actively decenter whiteness, colonialism, and imperialism to apply for participation, especially those working within and across the following topics and fields:
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Queer-feminist organizing, activism, community-building
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Tools for queer survival under resurgent fascism
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Queer worldmaking, aid, care
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EDM and nightlife
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Combating empire from the “gay haven”
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Central and Eastern European queer sonic histories
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Masculinities, e.g. construed through knowledge production, genealogies
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Pleasure, desire, excess
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Other pertinent topics that the queer community would like to thematise
Please submit: 1) a short bio (~150 words) and 2) a description of your current (artistic,
activist, and/or scholarly) work including your motivation for participation (~250 words)
to lgbtqmusicsg@gmail.com by 4 March 2025.
Event curation committee:
Stefanie Alisch, Jaime Díaz, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta, Thomas R. Hilder,
Eugenia Seriakov, Daniele Shlomit Sofer, Shirley Wick, Ilgaz YalçınoÄŸlu.
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