Extended deadline for sessions
5, 6, 7 September 2013 | FCSH, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal | http://egsc2013.pt.to
Call for papers and sessions
Sexualities have become a legitimate and significant area of geographical research, across diverse areas ranging from cultural, social and feminist geographies, to political and economic domains. One of the main characteristics of studies on sexualities has been its critical and reflexive perspective, namely questioning hegemonies and modes of sexualised power relations. Although this work has brought some significant changes and developments, still, many of the contemporary modes of knowledge production reflect inequalities and hegemonies that need to be challenged.
The II European Geographies of Sexualities Conference wants to create a space of debate, discussion and questioning to explore how we might attempt to move beyond such normative domains and practices.
Conference sessions and papers will contribute to the questioning and debating the following topics:
A comprehensive text of this call for papers is available at Beyond hegemonies.
We encourage contributions in a diverse range of formats. Alongside traditional academic conference papers, we welcome panel discussions, open space discussions, film screenings, installations and other contributions. We seek to foster networking, debate and discussions across national borders, across language communities, and across academic disciplines.
Language:
we currently do not have funding for the translation at the conference. We plan a multilingual conference, and encourage participants to present in the language they feel most comfortable in using.Interested contributors should send a max. 300-word abstract of a paper, or a max 500 word proposal of a session/panel discussion/other activity/format via online submissions by 8 March 2013 – Sessions and 31st March 2013 - Papers.
The conference is organised by:
All the best,Dr Robert KulpaRecently published:(2012) L'Est Visto Dall'Ovest. Dei Discorsi Occidentali Sull'Omofobia Nell'Europa Centro-Orientale. In: Alterazioni. Introduzione Alle Sociologie Delle Omosessualità. Ed. Cirrus Rinaldi. Milano: Mimesis. (IT).
(2012) (Un)translatable Queer? or What Is Lost and Can Be Found in Translation... In: Import - Export - Transport. Queer Theory, Queer Critique, and Activism in Motion. (Co-authors Joanna Mizielinska and Agata Stasinska). Eds. Sushiula Mesquita, Maria Katharina Wiedlack, and Katrin Lasthofer. Vienna: Zaglossus.If I am not who you say I am, then you are not what you think you are- James Baldwin