Dwelling Cultural Representations of Inhabited Places

Orsolya Katalin Petőcz is a PhD student in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She explores queer testimonies across literature and the visual arts, with a focus on the accounts of survivors of World War II. Her work centres on sexuality, the Holocaust and migration. Her research articles have been published in Italian Studies, French Cultural Studies and Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies . Her co-authored piece ‘(Un)Desired Others’ (2023) is related to her new project, the study of the stigma of promiscuity in the testimonies of Eastern European Holocaust survivors.

Naomi Segal is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, an honorary fellow of Queens’ College Cambridge, a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des palmes académiques and a member of the Academia Europaea. She founded the IGRS in 2004 and represented the UK in the European Science Foundation 2005–2011.She researches in comparative cultural studies and is the author of 19 books, including monographs Consensuality: Didier Anzieu, Gender and the Sense of Touch (2009), André Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy (1998), The Adulteress’s Child (1992) and Narcissus and Echo (1988). She is currently completing a monograph on replacement.