Queer Ruralities International Workshop Series

Invitation to apply

This groundbreaking set of workshops will address the material, political and cultural realities of queer people who engage in paid or unpaid farming, fishing and/or agricultural labour and/or are living and working in regional, rural and/or coastal areas. We will also attend to the application of queer methodologies to rural life and livelihoods.

These discussions will contribute to the emerging discourse on gender and sexuality in agri-foods systems and the livelihoods of queer people in rural areas, and offer perspectives from Central Europe, Asia and the Pacific, from civil society and academic communities.

This project comprises three hybrid symposia, hosting scholars and civil society representatives from Europe, and Asia and the Pacific:

1. Asia and the Pacific Symposium:
   14-15th August, University of New England (UNE) Parramatta Campus (Sydney) and online with participants across Asia and the Pacific
2. European Symposium:
   16-17th October, Technische Universität Dortmund and online hosted in collaboration with Wageningen University
3. An online collaboration based on the findings from the Central European and Asia/Pacific symposia