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INVITATION TO 'STILL OUT OF PLACE?' CONFERENCE AND BOOK LAUNCH
<http://outofplace.book.googlepages.com/launch> 7 November 2008, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
PLEASE NOTE THE EXTENDED DEADLINE: the 30th of October.
Please register by following the details here http://outofplace.book.googlepages.com/launch

You are cordially invited to the _Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality_ book launch (details of the book below)C. Come and meet some of the outstanding authors who will re-address and re-open the burning issues covered in this collection. We hope you will join in the open discussions which will consider past, present, and future directions of queerness/raciality. And of course, the much awaited book will be available for you to take home.

Registration fees: £20 waged, £10 unwaged/ students
Please send cheques payable to 'Raw Nerve Books' to Ann Kaloski Raw Nerve Books  Centre for Women's Studies University of York York YO10 5DD. Registration forms, as well as programme and details on how to get to the launch, are available here http://outofplace.book.googlepages.com/launch


We look forward to seeing you!



_Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality_
Edited by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake
York: Raw Nerve Books
ISBN 978-0-9553586-4-7
Price: £12; postage is free until November 2008 when ordering from the publisher <http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/outofplace.html> , http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/outofplace.html  quote code OOP61108

_Out of Place_ asks daring and timely questions about the silence at the heart of queer studies. Discussing 'race' alongside 'queer' often submerges raciality within queerness, leaving racialised groups silent and silenced -'out of place'. The book creates a space where queerness/raciality are brought together in creative tension to disturb these silences. The book explores queerness/raciality in the context of the 'war on terror'; corporeal and social practices in and of space;relations between visibility and politics; and cultural, literary, linguistic and theoretical mechanisms of translation. The papers in the book cut across academic theory, arts, activism, the media and everyday life. All the contributors to _Out of Place_ address queerness/ raciality as a theoretical and political tool to analyse and challenge their own fields, epistemologies and ontologies. This book is not just about what happens at the intersection of 'queer' and 'race', but also about how this intersection relates to and animates other aspects of life.

"_Out of Place_ is a bold collection of essays that teaches us to think about what happens and can happen at the points where queerness and raciality meet. These meeting points can be startling, powerful, violent, oppressive and enabling. From reflections on forms of violence, terror and security, to considerations of how whiteness coheres in space, from accounts of the life worlds of queers and trans of colour, to critical engagement with debates about methodology, experience and activism, this book brings together some powerful new voices.The landscape of queer and critical race studies might look quite different if we listen well." Sara Ahmed, Professor in Race and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London

For table of contents, previews of chapters, information on orders and other details please visit our website http://outofplace.book.googlepages.com/ <http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/outofplace.html> 

 


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Dr. Adi Kuntsman 
Lecturer in Internet and Communication 
School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts 
Liverpool John Moores University 
Dean Walters, 1 St. James Road 
Liverpool, L1 7BR 
Email <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  Web <http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91728.htm>