Centre for Space, Place and Society

📅 Date: Thursday, 5 June 2025
🕓 Time: 16:00–18:00
📍 Location: Gaia Plateau (1st floor), Wageningen University

What is natural? Where is nature? What does queer have anything to do with it?

Queer ecology offers an intersectional perspective on nature, more-than-human and more all while deconstructing binaries. It also shows the inherent interconnectedness between things: be it the bacteria living on human gut, or mushrooms in a forest or humans living in the web of a city.

In this lecture, we will look into how queer ecology as a critical theory came about, with its connections to ecofeminism and queer theory. We will also focus on symbiosis as a queer phenomenon: Through a journey from science fiction to science fact, we will look into popular media like Star Trek, symbiogenesis theory, and connect them to philosophical questions on the individual – or the lack there of.

Gizem Senturk

Gizem Şentürk is a digital communications specialist at WRI’s global communications team. Their responsibilities range from creating social media campaigns to implementing communications strategies and supporting WRI’s digital presence. Speaker bio: https://www.wri.org/profile/gizem-senturk