Esra Paul Afken
Registrations, IT, Web Design & Social Media
studied Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, graphic designer“Being able to participate in the ALMS 2019 is wonderful, because it provides me a rich insight into queer knowledge practices and their artistic adaptation.”
Kate Davison
Program Coordinator
historian and former Vice-President of the Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives“ALMS provides a crucial opportunity for us to build international networks and strengthen local efforts between large and small organisations. I first went to ALMS in Amsterdam in 2012, then London in 2016. I am delighted to be on the organising team for Berlin 2019 – my hometown for more than twelve years. I’m originally from Melbourne, where I’m completing my PhD thesis, ‘Sex, Psychiatry and the Cold War: A Transnational History of Homosexual Aversion Therapy, 1948–1981’ at the University of Melbourne.”
Andreas Pretzel
Conference Manager (incl. PR & Funding)
historian and board member of the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft Berlin“I joined the first ALMS in Minneapolis and the last two ones in Amsterdam and London. It’s a honor for me to organize now the next ALMS in Berlin to bring people together from around the world and offer them the encouraging experience of being part of an international network to interchange LGBTIQ+ history.”
Sophie Richter
Administration Coordinator
Lawyer and Initative Queer Nations“Joining the organisation team of the ALMS conference is a wonderful opportunity to combine all of my strengths and gain a deeper understanding of the queer cosmos.”
Volunteers
Christiani Dwi Putri
Volunteer
Christiani Dwi Putri is studying Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture at Potsdam University.“I grew up in a country where the queer community is still considered as an outsider until now and participating in ALMS 2019 is truly a challenge and an honored experience for me because it gives me an opportunity to develop an understanding of queer space and memory from various perspectives and from all over the world.”
Kiernan Cobarrubia
Volunteer
Kiernan is an artist living in Berlin from California whose work and interests center on archival materials and nostalgia, queer community building and liberation through expressing sexuality and the body. Kiernan studied Art History and Film Theory at UCLA.“I wanted to volunteer for ALMS because I feel that it’s important to keep archives alive, especially for marginalized communities and in our current world state. As our queer community is continually recovering from the ongoing AIDS crisis and with our ageing predecessors, we need to document their experiences and inform our younger community to our collective histories, rituals and identities.”
Volunteers during the conference
Alice EscherCaoimhe Donnelly
Chris Burrey
Christiani Dwi Putri
Ecie Linasari
John Tubera
Kamal Chopra
Kiernan Cobarrubia
Lily Felk
Lina Bonde
Manfred Herzer-Wigglesworth
Maria Rutschke
Merle Ingenfeld
Nat Schastneva
Raúl Navarro-Méndez
Rosanna Lovell
Rubens Mascarenhas Neto
Stefanie Neumeister
Steering Committee
Steering Committee
Ralf Dose, founding member and director of the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft
“I am proud that we finally are able to invite everyone to Berlin to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science, which included until 1933 the first LGBTIQ* archive, library, and very special collection, presented in the Institute’s museum. I am looking forward to meet you!”Photo: Ingo Paarz
Sanni Est, Multidisciplinary artist, political educator and founder of queer-feminist platform & festival Empower
“Following the stream of thought of many of my queer PoC peers, I will aim to de-colonize the gaze upon history which is also present in the eurocentric, white-prioritising queer narratives. It is a pleasure and honour to be a part of this committee.”Photo: Ícaro Tavares
Benno Gammerl, Initiative Queer Nations, teaches Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London
“Without the work done by LGBT archives there wouldn’t be any primary sources that time and again surprise and inspire researchers engaging in queer history.”Photo: FK Schulz
Anina Falasca, historian, research assistant at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
“ALMS 2019 in Berlin with the motto ‘Queering Memory’ means to me not only to increase continuously the visibility of diversity of genders and sexualities in collections, archives and libraries, but also to empower each other’s work!”Photo: Paul Sleev
Hannes Hacke, researcher, curator at Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality, Humboldt University
“LGBTIQ+ ALMS 2019 offers a unique space to discuss different strategies of engaging with the past and future of LGBTIQ+ heritage and to address the diversity of what queering can mean in different parts of the world. I hope to contribute to make it a place where we learn from, critique and empower each other in the face of enduring global inequalities and marginalizations.”
Roman Aaron Klarfeld, historian, project manager at FFBIZ – das feministische Archiv
“Bringing the ALMS Conference to Berlin is a wonderful opportunity for us to present our work to an international audience and to enable an exchange of the special character of queer collections.”
Carina Klugbauer, social scientist, curator, research assistant at Schwules Museum
“Completely in line with ‘Queering Memory’, with ALMS 2019 we want to inscribe hidden LSBTIQ*-narratives into the past to make queer futurity conceivable.”
Katja Koblitz, scientific employee at the Spinnboden Lesbian archive and library Berlin
Founded in 1973 as part of a new lesbian movement the Spinnboden Lesbian archive and library collects documents of lesbian lives and political activities in Germany from the 1920s til today. „I am looking forward to talk about and listen to the experiences of saving and presenting our treasures of LGBTIQ*-History and -Culture!”Photo: F. Rauchut
Saboura Manu Naqshband is an intersectional feminist and creative community organizer based in Berlin
She/they work as an independant researcher, empowerment trainer, translator and consultant. Over the years, Saboura has been involved with queer and migrant self-organizations in and beyond the borders of Berlin. They are passionate about Islamic feminism, dance culture and the (queer) body politic.Photo: Elif Küçük
Peter Rehberg is a Queer Theorist and Head of Collections & Archives at Schwules Museum, Berlin
In the past 15 years he has been researching and teaching in the areas of queer and gender studies at several universities in the US and Germany and he was appointed DAAD Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (2011–2016) and Max-Kade-Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Spring 2018). Since Summer 2018 he works as Head of Collections and Archives at Schwules Museum Berlin. “I am involved in the ALMS conference – and excited about it – to get a broader understanding of the complexities of queer memory, both practically and theoretically.”
Niki Trauthwein is founder and chairperson of Lili Elbe Archiv – Forschungsstätte zur Inter, Trans und Queer Geschichte e.V.
Her research activities focus on fields of biographics, identity, personality and queer movement.“ALMS 2019 is a space for the future. The opportunities and potentials of an international exchange at such a historic location are unique.“