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Subjects

​Seminars

• 'Building a movement through combining activism, academia and art’ 
  Dino Suhonic
• ‘Pakistan’s struggle for transgender equality’ Kami Choudry
• ​‘Never arrive; journey of a Somali trans refugee’ Farah Abdi 
• 'Defining the Trans Muslim Subject. European and Global Discourses
  of Con- and Divergences’  Leyla Jagiella 
• Classically Queer Muslims? Postcolonial and Precolonial Perspectives’ 
  Michiel Leezenberg
• ‘Islamic perspectives on secularism’ Kamel Essabane
• ‘The role of Art in queer Muslim activism’ Yavuz Kurtulmus
• ‘Queer Investigations: Towards a History of Queerness in Pakistani
  Visual Arts’ Abdullah Qureshi
• ‘Queer Refugees welcome - or maybe not’ Danijel Cubelic
• ‘Islamic Masculinities and Sexual Differences’  Amanullah de Sondy
• ‘Between the “I” and “Eye” - Examining the Lot Narrative in the Qur’an from an Islam Liberation Theology Perspective’ ​Farid Esack
• ‘The Triangulation of Homocolonialism and Pathways to Dialogue between Queer Muslims and their Allies’ Momin Rahman
• ‘The future of Muslim Technopolis’ Haroon Sheikh
• ‘God, Sex and Politics in the Netherlands’ Marco Derks en David Bos
• ‘An Ideology that is Plotting our Destruction’: Identity-Liberals’ Constructions of Dutch Christian Self and Muslim Refugee Other, Matthijs van Essen 
• ‘Exploring relations between European Christianity, gendered whiteness, and the secular’ Matthea Westerduin 
• ‘Race, religion and culture in European sexual politics: the case of the Netherlands’ Paul Mepschen

Panels

• ​​‘Queering faith traditions’ Interfaith panel on queer people of faith Frans Blokhuis, Shirodj Raghoenath, Wielie Elhorst
• 'LBTQ Muslim women Voices’ Panel on lived experiences of LBTQ Muslim women. Nina Bahar, Leyla Jagiella, Kami Choudry, Farah Abdi
• ‘Sexual Racism’ Panel on racism within LGBTQI spaces Olave Basabose, Manju Reijmer, Timothy Aarons, Amna Durrani
• ‘Queer Newcomers Geographies’ Panel on queer newcomers in Europe: Nader Turkmani, Hassen Hnini, Cihan Arikan, Farah Abdi

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Line up last year

Farid Esack
Muslim Liberation theologian
University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Kami Sid
Transgender activist and model
Pakistan

Amanullah De Sondy
Senior lecturer in
​Contemporary Islam
University College Cork, Ireland ​

Momin Rahman
Professor of Sociology 
Trent University, Canada

Leyla Jagiella
Muslim trans* activis, anthropologist and religious scholar
University of Bayreuth, Germany 

Kamel Essabane
Thomas More College and Fahm Institute, Netherlands 

Farah Abdi
Transgender activist and author 
Somalia/Germany

Yavuz Kurtulmus
​ Founder and director of 
MiGay & Transition Festival, Austria

David Bos
Theologian and lecturer Sociology
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ​

Paul Mepschen
Postdoc at the Program Group Political Sociology
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Danijel Cubelic
Lecturer in Religious Studies
University of Heidelberg, Germany 

Marco Derks
Theologian and PhD candidate 
Utrecht University, Netherlands ​

Abdullah Qureshi
​Visual artist, educator and 
cultural producer, Pakistan​

Amna Durrani
Queer activist and 
spoken word artist, Netherlands

Cihan Arikan
Queer activist and board member 
RFSL, Sweden

Dino Suhonic
Executive director Maruf
Netherlands  ​​

Dounia Jari
​chairperson of Maruf, journalist
Netherlands

Frans Blokhuis 
​Student Gender Studies at 
University Utrecht, Netherlands

Haroon Sheikh 
Philosopher and author, 
Èthos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Hassen Hnini
​Queer activist and 
chair Haseta, Finland ​

Manju Reijmer
Screenwriter and 
senior editor Expreszo, Netherlands
​

Matthea Westerduin
Historian & PhD candidate
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands  ​

Matthijs van Essen
​Theologian, MA in Humanitarian Action 
and Peacebuilding, Netherlands 
​

​Michiel Leezenberg
​Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 

Nader Turkmani
Queer activist
Skeiv Verden, Norway

Nina Bahar 
Queer activist, writer and 
assistant general secretary of Skeiv Verden, Norway

Olave Basabose
Trans* non-binary femme activist, writer and feminist, Netherlands

Shirodj Raghoenath
Young Socialists/Dutch Labour Party, Rainbow Rose Activist, Netherlands ​

​Siddique Wali
Program Director, Humraz Male Health Society, Pakistan

Timothy Aarons
Person of color, genderfluid,
immigrant, Netherlands

Wielie Elhorst
Minister for the LGBT community 
Protestant Church of Amsterdam, Netherlands ​

Pictures by Anja Meulenbelt