6:30pm, free, Digital Humanities Center, 103 Milstein, Barnard College, eventbrite.com.

Queer Muslim Asylum in Germany uses in-depth interviews with LGBTQI+ refugees and people seeking asylum; digitized asylum court cases available in the online archives of the Administrative Courts in Germany; and frontline news reporting both to examine the manner in which “legitimate victimhood” for gay, trans, bi, intersex, and non-binary people seeking asylum is read through the prism of Western constructions of Muslim sexuality and gender, and to propose concrete legislative initiatives that address the injustices inherent in existing EU policy.