title: Queer migration, diaspora and asylum in Europe conference start: 2017-12-09 start time: 09:00 end time: 17:30 venue: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies city: London country: GB coordinates: 51.5254, -0.1322 tags: femiagenda femiagendalondon feminism feminisminlondon feminismo feminismus feministevents womenrights links: Página Facebook del evento https://www.facebook.com/events/314202355714460/ description: As part of its LGBTQ Migration and Asylum project, led by Dr Richard Mole, the UCL European Institute is hosting this one-day conference on Queer Migration, Diaspora and Asylum. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 09.00-09.30 Welcome with coffee and croissants 09.30-11.00 Session I: Queering migration and diaspora -Francesca Stella (University of Glasgow): Rethinking queer migration at the intersection of migration and sexualities studies -Richard Mole (UCL): Understanding queer diaspora: the case of Russians, Poles and Brazilians in Berlin -Róisín Ryan-Flood (University of Essex): Staying connected: lesbian and gay narratives of family 11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-13.00 Session II: Transnational queer lives -Łukasz Szulc (London School of Economics): From East to West and back to East: transnational homosexual activism during the Cold War -Dany Carnassale (University of Padua): Transnational construction of queerness of Senegalese migrants -Phillip M. Ayoub (Drexel University): Queer migration and rooted cosmopolitans: facilitating long-distance LGBT activism 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.30 Session III: Queer asylum: socio-legal perspectives -Nuno Ferreira (University of Sussex) EU queer asylum policy: In search of a fairer system -Moira Dustin and Nina Held (University of Sussex): Square pegs in round holes? Exploring the misfit between the Refugee Convention and LGBTQI claims in Germany and the UK -Christian Klesse (Manchester Metropolitan University): Biopolitics, asylum case law and the epistemic contract of bisexual erasure 15.30-16.00 Tea and coffee 16.00-17.30 Session IV: Queer asylum: socio-political perspectives -Keith E. McNeal (University of Houston) and Sarah French Brennan (Columbia University): Between homonationalism and Islamophobia: comparing queer asylum-seeking to the Netherlands from the Caribbean versus the Muslim world -Sebastiano Cesaro (University of Paris 8): The politics of support towards LGBTQ asylum seekers in France -Calogero Giametta (Aix-Marseille Université): New Asylum Protection Categories and Elusive Filtering Devices: The Case of Queer Asylum in France and Britain