Dear colleagues,
This is to remind you that registration for the Forbidden Fruits, Forbidden Histories conference at Cardiff University has been extended and now closes on Friday, June 22nd 2012.
Also, due to a change in funding circumstances, we are delighted to be able to offer the conference free of charge. I have included a text version of the programme of events below for your convenience.
Best wishes,
Hannah.
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Conference Title : Forbidden Fruits, Forbidden Histories: going past the accepted queer canon.
Venue : Cardiff School of European Languages, Translation and Politics. Cardiff University. CF10 3AS. Wales, UK.
Date : Wednesday, July 11th 2012. 09.00 - 18.00 [followed by a conference soirée beginning at 19.30].
Conference Information :
Forbidden Fruits, Forbidden Histories is a one-day conference hosted by the Languages, Cultures and Ideologies research unit at Cardiff University's School of European Languages, Translation and Politics. Work on LGBT is now more accepted in the academy than ever before and, as such, has enriched our knowledge enormously. Despite its increased presence in the academy, however, no significant network exists to consolidate the research and acknowledge scholars' and academics' contribution to LGBT studies in the Arts and Humanities. Forbidden Fruits, Forbidden Histories aims to highlight continuities and change within LGBT themes and motifs across a wide range of European cultural and social practices, seeking to highlight current academic research in, and facilitate discussions on, the cultural presence of LGBT in Arts and Humanities research. The conference organisers warmly extend an invitation to you to engage with current academic research in the field of LGBT studies. Papers presented focus on, for example, Literature, Visual Arts, Queer Studies and cover an array of subjects including: histories of closeting; disguise and revelation; desire and consumption; and metaphors of sexuality.
Cost: FREE. To register and for any additional information please visit our website at : http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/europ/newsandevents/events/forbiddenfruits.html
Programme of Events:
09.15 Registration.
09.45 Opening Remarks and Introduction - Matthew J. Berry (Cardiff University)
10.00-11.30 Panel I : Queer Origins.
Is this queer enough? Irony in Nineteenth-century Literature - Jutta Kling (St. Andrews)
Sapphic Suckers: Misrepresenting the Lesbian Vampire in Late Victorian Gothic - Hannah O'Connor (Cardiff)
Satan was a Lesbian: Lesbian Pulps, Then and Now - BJ Epstein (East Anglia)
11.30-11.45 Tea and Coffee.
11.45-13.15 Panel II : Negotiating Queer Identities.
Between the 'homosexual' and 'homosocial': Constructions of masculinity in Photography of the Algerian War appelés - Iain Mossman (Cardiff)
Captain America: Search for a super (drag) hero - Kinsey Robb (Manchester)
Passing of(f) the Body: Gender appearances in the graphic novel Fun Home - Esther de Dauw (Cardiff)
13.15-14.00 Lunch.
14.00-15.30 Panel III : Contemporary Visual Cultures.
AIDS: The Ever-present subject of New Queer Cinema - Silvia Grassi (Cardiff)
Sex, Lies and Death: The Medicalised Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema - Adrian Gras-Velazquez (Durham)
Queer(y)ing Post-feminism: Contemporary Lesbian Cinema in France - Clara Bradbury-Rance (Manchester)
15.30-15.45 Tea and Coffee
15.45-17.15 Panel IV : Contemporary Literatures.
Corporeal (dis)location in the AIDS writing of Hervé Guibert - Matthew J. Berry (Cardiff)
Textual relations: Nina Bouraoui and Hervé Guibert - Rosie MacLachlan (Dublin)
17.15-18.00 Queer Futures.
Concluding thoughts and Round Table.
19.30 Conference soirée held at a city venue. Refer to conference pack for further information.
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