︎ Panel: "We Are From Nowhere" - Where is Feminism at Today?


Monday, February 2, 2026, 7:00 p.m., Rosa Luxemburg Foundation,
Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A, 10243 Berlin

Speakers: Oxana Timofeeva, Lindsay Lerman and Katarina Kolozova

All three authors write from a position of “nowhere” as Lindsay would call it, in her praised philosophical novel "I'm From Nowhere," either from their geographically constantly shifting location or from their epistemic position which is a standalone almost solitary stance. After the so-called speculative turn in 2008, and the rise of new materialisms and realisms that defied the hegemony of the postmodern episteme (poststructuralism), some feminist philosophers and gender theorists engaged in developing a challenge to the liberal individualist constructivist mainstream albeit opposing any retrograde movement. The advancement of the constructivist era had to be affirmed yet sublated. They would defend the concept of gender while posing a provocation to its 90ties styled liberalism, they would challenge the dogma of identity centered politics while defending trans-rights through historical materialism or Laruelle inspired non-standard philosophy. There are not many such authors in the world, but we have three of those rare voices speaking and this panel:

Lindsay Lerman, PhD in Philosophy from University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, is an interdisciplinary writer and translator. She published recently What Are You? and is the translator of François Laruelle's first book Phenomenon and Difference. Essays on the Ontology of Ravaisson. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and poems have been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Tyrant, Archway Editions, The Creative Independent, and elsewhere.

Katerina Kolozova, Director and Founder of the School of Materialist Research. Latest monograph: Defending Materialism: The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy, 2024 and Author of the Chapter "Poststructuralism" in Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy (2021).

Oxana TimofeevaFreud’s Beasty Boys (2025), Solarpolitics (2022), How to Love a Homeland (2020), History of Animals (2018), This is not That (2022), and Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille (2009). Her new book On the Soul is forthcoming in 2026.  She is member of the artistic collective "Chto Delat.

The event is in English.

An event organized by Helle Panke e.V. in cooperation with the School of Materialist Research and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.