@conference { , title = {Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?}, abstract = {The invited lecture reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary. Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studies emerging from the Central-Eastern European position of ‘inbetweenness’ the Occident and the Orient. He reflected on the role and place of The Enlightenment and the continuation of ‘coloniality of knowledge’ (Quijano) in LGBTIQ+ activism, pondering structural limitations of this dominant paradigmatic frameworks. The talk consequently builds towards Dr Kulpa’s body of research questioning the geo-politics of knowledge production, on which he also wrote in “Queer Politics of post-Enlightenment: Beyond the Horizon of the Present” (2021, http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/output/2794836) or in “Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies” (2016, http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/output/2713810).}, conference = {Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education}, publicationstatus = {Unpublished}, url = {http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2993977}, keyword = {Gender, Geopolitics, Social justice, Human rights, Education, Pedagogy, Migration and Mobility, Ethics and sustainability, Critical studies, Social Sciences Research Group, Centre for Arts, Media and Culture, Culture and Communities, queer studies, critical epistemology, Post-Enlightenment, occidentalism, geo-politics, 'the west', education}, author = {Kulpa, Roberto} }