Interview with Florian Helfer on the institute colloquium Queering Public

7 November 2025

Photo: Pink Channel Hamburg

Pink Channel Magazin 01.11.2025

Florian Helfer gave an interview on "PINK CHANNEL – Medien im Queerformat" about the current lecture series "Queering Public" at the Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies in Hamburg. The interview addressed the relevance of academic formats that interact with society, such as public anthropology, as well as queerness as a political concept. Among other things, the interview covers workshops organised as part of the institute's colloquium on the "Pavilion der Stimmen".

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The programme for the Queering Public institute colloquium can be found here.

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