Dear all,
Please find attached the programme for the conference 'Forthcoming Feminisms', organised by the BSA Gender Studies Group and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS) at the University of Leeds, to be held on Friday 26th October.
The conference will be held at Weetwood Hall, Leeds: Weetwood Hall Conference Centre & Hotel, Otley Road, Leeds LS16 5PS , West Yorkshire, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)113 230 6000
See: http://www.weetwood.co.uk/page.php/id=604 for directions/maps.
Weetwood is taking accommodation bookings. Zowie also previously sent out information about other hotels in Leeds. Please contact me if you would like this to be resent.
See below for a pre-conference event at 5.pm on Thursday 25th October at the University of Leeds, which is part of CIGS Seminar Series, the evening before - everyone is very welcome (for directions to the building please follow the link in the seminar attachment)
Zowie and I look forward to seeing you at the conference.
All best,
Sally
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Bird la Bird - Holding Court on Class and Queer Femininity
25 October 2012 | 5.00pm | Seminar
Western Lecture Theatre - Leeds University Business School
Bird la Bird is an artist who straddles comedy and performance art, she has been described as a "Queer Pearly Queen" and a "Haute Couture Fishwife". Bird favours collaboration and works with a host of artists and designers to create surreal and satirical performances. Bird's performances explore couple culture, austerity, adoption, terrorism, Catholicism, class, feminism, and queer femininity.
Bird was a collaborator on The FeMuseum project, a performative archive exploring Femme legacy and lineage led by Lois Weaver. She often works with the Duckie collective and appeared in their anti-capitalist neo-panto "Copyright Christmas" at the Barbican Theatre in 2011.
Bird graces the cover of Femmes of Power by Ulrika Dahl and Del LaGrace Volcano (2009). She founded Bird Club in 2006 with Maria Rosa Young, and went on to organize Bird Pride, the UK’s first-ever Femme presence at the annual Pride march.
Bird Club was a shell breaking queer femme cabaret night which blurred the boundaries between art, politics and partying. Bird will discuss why she prefers clubs to gallery spaces.
In this "eggciting" lecture, Bird will hold forth on her favorite subject—herself—in a witty and amusing manner. She will also show documentation of recent shows—in other words, lots of images and video of herself.
You are invited to join in and ask questions, if you can get a word in edgeways.
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Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
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