Utopian Disidentifications: Pleasure, Critique, and the Future in Queer Art

SPEAKER: Katja Čičigoj

In this lecture, Slovenian scholar Katja Čičigoj examines utopian efforts to create queer film images in Yugoslav and Slovenian cinema, comparing and contextualising these images in relation to theories of temporality. Čičigoj argues that our analysis of these films needs to move beyond a presumed dichotomy between utopia and enjoyment on the one hand, and critique on the other.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Katja Čičigoj is a university assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt/Celovec, and is completing her PhD in feminist philosophy at Paderborn University. She translated Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex into Slovene (2019) and edited the volume Feminist Futures: The Radical Utopianism of Shulamith Firestone (2023). Katja has also worked as a film and theatre critic and theoretician and has co-programmed three editions of the Slovene Film Festival.