Dear colleagues,

With the usual apologies for cross-posting, we're very excited to announce that registration is now open for our conference The Queer Art of Feeling at the University of Cambridge on 2-3 May 2019. Please see information and links below. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any queries at the email address below.

Best wishes,

Geoffrey Maguire (Cambridge), Fraser Riddell (Oxford), Tom Smith (St Andrews)
Organisers, The Queer Art of Feeling

The Queer Art of Feeling: Sensation, Emotion and the Body in Queer Cultures

2-3 May 2019
University of Cambridge, UK

with a keynote lecture by Sara Ahmed

Registration<https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/spanish-portuguese/the-queer-art-of-feeling-emotion-sensation-and-the-body-in-queer-cultures/the-queer-art-of-feeling-emotion-sensation-and-the-body-in-queer-cultures>
Programme<https://queerartoffeeling.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/draft-programme-for-wordpress-2019.03.25.pdf>
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for The Queer Art of Feeling conference. There is a reduced rate available for postgraduate students, postdoctoral and early career researchers not on full-time permanent contracts, and independent scholars. More information is available on the registration website<https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/spanish-portuguese/the-queer-art-of-feeling-emotion-sensation-and-the-body-in-queer-cultures/the-queer-art-of-feeling-emotion-sensation-and-the-body-in-queer-cultures>.
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Since the earliest works of queer theory, scholars have placed the body at the centre of queer experience, and especially the performative constitution of identity. But in the last decade, influenced by phenomenology, approaches to queer culture have looked to the body as a site of queer knowledge production more broadly, combining ways of thinking, sensing and feeling. Affect studies, trans theory, new materialism, embodiment theory and cognitive approaches to the humanities have revolutionised our understanding of queer experience and perception, togetherness and community, art and creativity.
The political power, even the essence, of queerness has often been located in its disruptive and destabilising relationship with dominant ways of thinking and social norms. Yet from the 'anti-social thesis' to recent discussions of 'queer theory without antinormativity', debates in queer studies challenge us to understand queer belonging to and orientation within societies also in embodied, interconnected terms. At once within and outside wider cultures and norms, queer bodies become a site of uniquely contested lived experiences, and of peculiar creativity in shaping and re-creating our selves, communities and worlds.
This conference explores the potential of the arts to represent, explore, challenge and create modes of queer lived, felt and embodied experience. Taking 'feeling' in all its meanings - touch, hapticity, sensation, emotion, a hunch or gut reaction, as well as tentativeness when 'feeling one's way' - the conference will explore the complex relationships to culture and society that are at stake in queer artworks and queer experience.

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The Queer Art of Feeling is kindly sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies (University of London), the Section of Spanish and Portuguese (University of Cambridge), and Murray Edwards College (University of Cambridge).

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