CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Queering Migrations on Screen’
A one-day conference, to be held at the Institute of
Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study,
University of London
Date: Friday 13 October 2006
The aim of this conference is to look at the
phenomenon of migration in a range of national cinemas
from the perspective of queer theory.
The idea behind the project is that constructions of
identity are mobile, but don’t necessarily travel
well. The process of migration cuts across national
spaces. It also impacts on formations of gender and
sexuality that consolidate or contest the nation.
Queer theory may prove useful in charting this process
because it is attentive to the mechanisms through
which identities are produced and questions rather
than relying on normative categories of gender and
sexuality. The effects of the experience of migration
are political in that they raise issues to do with
racism, citizenship, cultural integration and
assimilation. Yet the representation of that
experience also impacts on the taxonomies of national
and gender identity that cinema has been said to
consolidate. The question is whether, and how, film
can offer ways of undoing dominant modes of
representation and spectatorship as it charts
movements across and between spaces and identities.
Submissions are invited from (but not limited to) the
fields of Film Studies, Queer Theory, Migration and
Cultural Studies; interdisciplinary methodological
perspectives that diversify the understanding of the
subject area are especially encouraged. Papers on
other visual media, especially television and video
art are also welcome. We aim to publish a selection of
papers from the conference either as an edited volume
or as a special issue of a journal.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 May 2006
Please email proposals (200 words) along with a short
C.V. simultaneously to:
Derek Duncan, Department of Italian, University of
Bristol [log in to unmask]
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Sub-Faculty of Modern Greek,
Oxford University
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