Event: A Badge of Injury: Pink Triangle and Queer Memories of National Socialism - Sébastien Tremblay (Flensburg)

In this talk, Dr. Sébastien Tremblay (Europa-Universität Flensburg) will explore the memory of the persecutions of queer individuals underNational Socialism. He will examine how symbols (circulated through printed media and displayed at protests) shaped a shared narrative of memory across the Euro-American world. The talk will address not only the successes of this collective remembrance andthe recognition of queerness as a key category within official, state-sanctioned memory of National Socialist crimes, but also the exclusions that have marginalized certain queer experiences in these debates. Drawing from his book A Badge of Injury (De Gruyter 2024), Dr. Tremblay will also emphasize the importance of provincializing queer history within and outside the Euro-American context and demonstrate the need to understand knowledge exchanges across languages from a transregional perspective.

Dr. Sébastien Tremblay (he/him) is research associate and lecturer at the Europa-University Flensburg. He is also an associated researcher in queer history at Goldsmiths, University of London in the UK. He recently completed his monograph: "A Badge of Injury: The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Gay and Lesbian Identities in the 20th Century" (DeGruyter 2024). Outside of academia, Sébastien has worked as a consultant for the Schwules Museum in Berlin, the Goethe Institute, the Berlinale, and for Franco-German theatre plays presented at the Institut Français in Berlin.

This event is part of the Margins of Memory Speaker Series, which runs throughout the winter semester 2025/26. It is organized by the co-spokespeople of the Margins of Memory Early Career Research Network, Volha Bartasha and Tatiana Klepikova. The network is supported by the ScienceCampus. This session takes place in cooperation with the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies.