Walking and European space-making
Investigating hiking associations, leisure mobility, and the making of regional, national, and European landscapes since the nineteenth century.
Historian · Researcher · Lecturer
Dr. Sébastien
Tremblay
Exploring the histories of memory, belonging, and mobility across modern Europe and the transatlantic world.
ST
History · Memory · Movement
Europa-Universität FlensburgDepartment of History and History EducationFlensburg, Germany
01 / About
History across borders, images and ideas.
I am a historian and researcher at Europa-Universität Flensburg. My work connects queer history, global and conceptual history, memory studies, and the cultural history of Europe.
My first monograph, A Badge of Injury (2023), examines the pink triangle as a transatlantic and global symbol of queer memory. My more recent research explores walking, leisure mobility, and the historical construction of European cultural landscapes since the nineteenth century.
I received my PhD in Global Intellectual History from Freie Universität Berlin in 2020 and have previously worked with the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Queer historyMemory studiesGlobal historyMobility & landscapesConceptual history
02 / Research
Current research & interests
Queer memory and visual culture
Tracing the pink triangle, collective memories of National Socialism, and the circulation of queer symbols across the Atlantic.
Solidarity, borders and temporalities
Exploring constructions of belonging, racialization, migration, and international solidarity in late-twentieth-century LGBT discourse.
03 / Scholarship
Selected publications
De Gruyter Oldenbourg · 2023A Badge
of Injury
of Injury
Monograph
A Badge of Injury: The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory
Examining the pink triangle's global journey, this book explores the relationship between queer collective memory, visual symbols, and transregional identity formation from the 1970s onward.
View book ↗2022
Visual Collective Memories of National Socialism: Transatlantic HIV/AIDS Activism and Discourses of Persecutions
German History, 40(4), 563–582.
DOI ↗2022
From Opferkonkurrenz to Solidarity: A Round Table
With Manuela Bauche, Patricia Piberger and Hannah Tzuberi. German Historical Institute London Bulletin, 44(2), 32–85.
2021
Rosa Winkel et Pink Triangle: Comprendre la mémoire collective homosexuelle de la répression nazie dans une perspective transatlantique
Revue d’Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande, 53(2), 379–396.
DOI ↗2020
Dealing with an Ocean of Meaninglessness: Reinhart Koselleck’s Lava Memories and Conceptual History
With Margrit Pernau. Contributions to the History of Concepts, 15(2), 7–28.
DOI ↗04 / Academic career
Academic background
2022 – present
Research associate and lecturer, Europa-Universität Flensburg
2021 – 2022
Postdoctoral research, Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS, Freie Universität Berlin
2019 – 2021
Visiting researcher, Centre for Queer History, Goldsmiths, University of London
2020
PhD in Global Intellectual History, Freie Universität Berlin
2016
MA in Global History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Freie Universität Berlin
2013
BA in History and German Studies, Université de Montréal
05 / Teaching
Teaching at Flensburg
Courses in historical methods, European societies, global and contemporary history.
Autumn semester 2026 · Seminar
Einführung in das geschichtswissenschaftliche Arbeiten
Autumn semester 2026 · Course
Die europäischen Gesellschaften im Zeitalter der Dekolonisation
06 / Get in touchLet's stay in
Let's stay in
conversation.
For academic inquiries, research collaborations, and teaching-related matters.
Dr. Sébastien Tremblay
Europa-Universität Flensburg
Building Tallinn 1, Room TAL 219
Mitscherlich-Nielsen-Straße 1a
24943 Flensburg, Germany
Office hours: Wednesdays, 15:00–16:00 (by prior email appointment).