Miscellaneous

Call For Papers

Queer Sexualities

13th to 15th May 2011

Warsaw, Poland

Call for Papers

20 years since the reclamation of the word 'queer'

by the LGBTQ community this conference would like to take a closer look at broad themes of queer sexualities through time and space, non-normative sexual constructions and queer sexual identities from a diverse range of perspectives by scholars working in various academic disciplines. Yet our meaning of the word queer is not limited to the non-mainstream sexuality as we opt for inclusion of 'unusual'

heterosexual practices into the 'queer domain' in order not to discriminate but understand, include and accept.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to the following themes:

* the role of historical forces in shaping queer

sexuality(ies)

* historiography of queer sexualities

* the politics of queer sexualities

* queertopias and the politics of gender

* queer identities/sexualities in literature and art

* queer sexualities and the body - literary and non-literary

* representations and resistances of non-normative corporeality

* beyond queer sex and sexuality

* queerotica vs. queerporn

* queer sexualities and performativity

* queer sexualities and age

* queer sexualities and theory (queer theory, straight queer theory,

* sexuality studies, disability studies, feminist perspective, fat studies etc.

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 26th November 2010. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 1st April 2011.

300 word abstracts should be submitted

simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this

order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

E-mails should be entitled: QS1 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest that you look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Malwina Degórska (Conference Leader)

English Department

University of Szczecin

Szczecin, Poland

E-mail: mdegorska@gmail.com

Barbara Braid

English Department,

University of Szczecin,

Szczecin, Poland

E-mail: barbara.braid@gmail.com

Rob Fisher

Network Founder and Network Leader,

Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

E-mail: qs@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s).

For further details about the project please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/queer-sexualities/
For further details about the conference please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/gender-and-sexuality/queer-sexualities/call-for-papers/

Full post as published by Law & Humanities Blog on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).