FRIDAY OCTOBER 12
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 10:00 Prof Ken Plummer’s keynote address
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 – 11:45 PANEL 1 – Collapsing Time
Panel Chair: Theo Gordon
James Bell, Northumbria University, UK
Dear Reader, your then is my now. Sharon Hayes, the Lesbian Archive and cultural activism in contemporary art
MC Ferro, University of Naples Federico II; S Palumbo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
The experience of Camp Trans: queer and trans feminist perspectives
Fiona Johnstone, Middlesex University, UK
Re-queering AIDS histories: Kia Labeija’s photographic self-portrait practice
11:45 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 PANEL 2 – Reimagining Radicalisms
Panel Chair: Tom Roach
Theo Gordon, University of Sussex, UK
‘Can You See My Roots?’ – questioning the ‘radical’ in queer theory
Omar Daou, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
“Let’s Burn the Rainbow Flag”: Thoughts on the Status of LGBTQ Activism and Pride in Lebanon
Ben Miller, Humboldt Universitat Berlin, Germany
What Are We For: Harry Hay’s Vision of Queerness as Labor
14:30 – 16:00 PANEL 3 – Performance/Performativity 1
Panel Chair: Erica Robenalt
Charli Brissey, University of Michigan, US
Queerly Inhuman: A Materialist Approach to Gender, Desire, and Radical Resistance
Scarlett Steven, UNSW Art & Design, Australia
A sticky post-queer stickiness as a critique of queer fluidity and antinormativity
Ege Altan, King’s College London, UK
Improvising Theatrical Jazz in a Queer Space: Aishah Rahman’s Unfinished Women
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 PANEL 4 – Performance/Performativity 2
Panel Chair: James Bell
Richard Huddleson, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Concevez-moi, Habillez-moi, Baisez-moi: Queer Interventions in Translating Theatre
Ibtisam Ahmed, University of Nottingham, UK
Exploring the Queer Utopia of Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
Dotan Brom and Yoav Zaritsky, The Haifa Queer History Project, Israel
“Not when you are looking for something” – Spatial, Temporal and Political Cruising through Haifa’s City-Space
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13
09:00 – 10:30 PANEL 5 – Queering Wellbeing
Panel Chair: pavleheidler
Ashley Jay Brockwell, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Queer ways to wellbeing? Eco-spiritual-social artivism and the disruption of mental health narratives
Matthjis Walhout, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands
Imagine salvation: dysphoria as sacred experiencing
Dan Bird, Queen Mary University of London, UK
“Being for being against:” Hopelessness, Queer Theory and the Anthropocene
10:30 – 11:30 PANEL 6 – Queering Borders
Panel Chair: Ben Miller
Zdenek Sloboda, Charles University, Czech Republic
Homonormativity and Queer Ruptures of the Czech LGBTIQ+ Movement from 1990s to present day
Jonathan Nash, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Not Quite Queer Enough: zones of exclusion and homonationalism at the border
11:30 – 12:15 Lunch
12:15 – 13:45 PANEL 7 – Disrupting Archetypes
Panel Chair: Scarlett Steven
Dani Williams-Jones, University of California, US
Variations of P[Y]NK: The Queer Afro-futurist Feminist Prose of Janelle Monae
Chris Mowat, University of Sheffield, UK
Anatomy is History: Interpreting the Galli priesthood of ancient Rome through modern queer categories of identity.
Hilary Harp, Arizona State University; Suzie Silver
Queering Folk and Fairy Tales
13:45 – 14:15 Coffee break
14:15 – 16:15 PANEL 8 – Writing Queerly
Panel Chair: Dani Williams-Jones
Rebecca Miller, Drew University, US
Claim that Queer: Imagined Community and the Queering of the Literary Canon through An Archive of Our Own
pavleheidler, Sweden
The physical consequence to knowing or what is the difference that makes a difference
Chiara Pellegrini, Newcastle University, UK
Time for a Change: Radical Challenges to Narrative Form in Contemporary Gender-variant Life Writing
Tawnya Renelle, University of Glasgow, UK
Hybrid Forms: Opening New Spaces for Queer Storytelling
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 17:45 Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay’s keynote address
18:30 - late Drinks Reception at Bar Loco