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