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Dear Colleagues,


A quick reminder about the Queer/Italian/Film at the up-coming AAIS 2014 conference in Zurich on behalf of the Queer Caucus's President and Secretary. Abstract and call below, do contact any of the organisers or myself with questions, ideas or thoughts.


All best wishes,


Dom Holdaway


 

Dear colleagues, please consider participating in the following session at the annual meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies May 23-25 at the University of Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland


Title: Queer/Italian/Film

Organizers: The Queer Studies Caucus (QSC)

Chair: Dom Holdaway, University of Warwick

Taking inspiration from Carla Freccero's Queer/Early/Modern, this panel attempts to open up new understandings of queer Italian film that offer a productive challenge to film and media studies. Papers are welcomed that focus on the spaces between the terms, thus they might include considerations of the limits of the applicability of the term 'queer' in the case of Italy's cinema (the term's translatability, or possible Italian equivalents); the transcendence of national borders in queer film ('Italian' films not 'made in Italy', such as Mambo Italiano); the modes through which queer Italian subjects find expression that go beyond traditional film (camera phones, social media, photography, etc.); the representation of queer characters by straight actors; or the shifting spaces of queer aesthetics in traditional Italian cinema.

Papers are welcomed from all disciplines in Italian studies (e.g., film, visual studies, literary criticism, history, social sciences) and can be in Italian or English. Presenters do not need to be members of the QSC, but are encouraged to join. Please submit a short description (250 words) to  [log in to unmask] by December 1, 2013.

We look forward to your participation,

SA Smythe                                                    Julia Heim

QSC President                                              QSC Secretary

History of Consciousness                             Comparative Literature (Italian)

University of California, Santa Cruz            CUNY Graduate Center


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Research Fellow
Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/culturalvalue
@UoWCommission / @domholdaway
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