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FRIDAY OCTOBER 12

 

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

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09:00 – 10:00 Prof Ken Plummer’s keynote address

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10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break

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10:15 – 11:45 PANEL 1 – Collapsing Time

Panel Chair: Theo Gordon

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James Bell, Northumbria University, UK

Dear Reader, your then is my now. Sharon Hayes, the Lesbian Archive and cultural activism in contemporary art

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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

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Fiona Johnstone, Middlesex University, UK

Re-queering AIDS histories: Kia Labeija’s photographic self-portrait practice

 

11:45 – 13:00 Lunch break

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13:00 – 14:30 PANEL 2 – Reimagining Radicalisms

Panel Chair: Tom Roach

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Theo Gordon, University of Sussex, UK

Can You See My Roots?’ – questioning the ‘radical’ in queer theory

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Omar Daou, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands

“Let’s Burn the Rainbow Flag”: Thoughts on the Status of LGBTQ Activism and Pride in Lebanon

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Ben Miller, Humboldt Universitat Berlin, Germany

What Are We For: Harry Hay’s Vision of Queerness as Labor

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14:30 – 16:00 PANEL 3 – Performance/Performativity 1

Panel Chair: Erica Robenalt

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Charli Brissey, University of Michigan, US

Queerly Inhuman: A Materialist Approach to Gender, Desire, and Radical Resistance

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Scarlett Steven, UNSW Art & Design, Australia

A sticky post-queer stickiness as a critique of queer fluidity and antinormativity

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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

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16:30 – 18:00 PANEL 4 – Performance/Performativity 2

Panel Chair: James Bell

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Richard Huddleson, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Concevez-moi, Habillez-moi, Baisez-moi: Queer Interventions in Translating Theatre

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Ibtisam Ahmed, University of Nottingham, UK

Exploring the Queer Utopia of Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns

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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

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 13

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09:00 – 10:30 PANEL 5 – Queering Wellbeing

Panel Chair: pavleheidler

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Ashley Jay Brockwell, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Queer ways to wellbeing? Eco-spiritual-social artivism and the disruption of mental health narratives

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Matthjis Walhout, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands

Imagine salvation: dysphoria as sacred experiencing

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Dan Bird, Queen Mary University of London, UK

“Being for being against:” Hopelessness, Queer Theory and the Anthropocene

 

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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

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Jonathan Nash, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Not Quite Queer Enough: zones of exclusion and homonationalism at the border

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11:30 – 12:15 Lunch

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​12:15 – 13:45 PANEL 7 – Disrupting Archetypes

Panel Chair: Scarlett Steven

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Dani Williams-Jones, University of California, US

Variations of P[Y]NK: The Queer Afro-futurist Feminist Prose of Janelle Monae

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Chris Mowat, University of Sheffield, UK

Anatomy is History: Interpreting the Galli priesthood of ancient Rome through modern queer categories of identity.

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Hilary Harp, Arizona State University; Suzie Silver

Queering Folk and Fairy Tales

 

13:45 – 14:15 Coffee break

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​14:15 – 16:15 PANEL 8 – Writing Queerly

Panel Chair: Dani Williams-Jones

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Rebecca Miller, Drew University, US

Claim that Queer: Imagined Community and the Queering of the Literary Canon through An Archive of Our Own

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pavleheidler, Sweden

The physical consequence to knowing or what is the difference that makes a difference

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Chiara Pellegrini, Newcastle University, UK

Time for a Change: Radical Challenges to Narrative Form in Contemporary Gender-variant Life Writing

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Tawnya Renelle, University of Glasgow, UK

Hybrid Forms: Opening New Spaces for Queer Storytelling

 

 

16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break

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16:45 – 17:45 Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay’s keynote address

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18:30 - late Drinks Reception at Bar Loco

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