The deadline for paper abstracts for 'Homophobia Rewritten' is coming up - please spread the word. Thanks, Heike


Call for Papers (deadline 31 March 2014)

Homophobia Rewritten: New Literary Perspectives on Violence and Sexuality

An AHRC-funded Symposium
http://violentworldofdifference.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/4-march-2014-update-homophobia-rewritten-symposium/

Date:    Friday, 13 June 2014
Venue:  Birkbeck, University of London

Keynote: Professor Alison Donnell (Reading)

This one-day symposium examines literary and cultural representations of, and
responses, to homophobia. It defines homophobia broadly to mean all kinds of denials
of, and attacks on, queer existence including for example heteronormative practices
as well as verbal and physical attacks.

By exploring representations of intimate lives lived with and against the threat of violence,
and by documenting anti-homophobia and other forms of resistance, the symposium
aims to gain new insights into the interlinked cultures, histories, experiences and
politics of violence and sexuality across time and place.

Papers may address, but are not limited to:

* Literary & Cultural Histories of (Anti-) Homophobia
* (Anti-) Homophobia in Fiction / Graphic Novels / Film / Popular Culture /Visual Culture
* Hate / Racism / Antisemitism/ Colonialism / Postcolonialism
* Identities / Bodies / Gender / Class / Race
* (Pre)Modernity / the Contemporary
* Medicine / Law / New Knowledge Formations
* Translation / Migration /Poverty / Wealth

Please send 300-word proposals for 20-minute papers, and a short  biographical note, to the organizer,
Dr Heike Bauer ([log in to unmask]) by 31 March 2014.

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Dr Heike Bauer

Senior Lecturer in English and Gender Studies
Department of English and Humanities
School of Arts Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD, UK
Tel: +44 3073 8386
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/bauer
Twitter: @Heike_Bauer

Follow my blog for the AHRC-funded project A Violent World of Difference and related issues in the history of sexuality: http://violentworldofdifference.wordpress.com