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Hi folks, For those of you who missed the deadline to submit to the Sexuality and Space Pre-Conference, fret not! We have some more room for paper or panel submissions. The Sexuality and Space Pre-conference will be held in the City College of San Francisco Civic Centre Campus on March 27th and 28th, the two days immediately before the AAG. Pre-conference participation is FREE OF CHARGE. Also, while the CFP below identifies "Queer Politics and Extra-Marital Affairs" as the overarching theme, papers related to any aspect of 'Sexuality and Space' are welcome. Please submit by email to: [log in to unmask] Our absolute final deadline for submission is February 26th, Friday. Finally, to give us organizers a sense of how much coffee, tea and snacks we should order and how many name tag stickers to purchase, PLEASE do RSVP / register. The City College of San Francisco has also requested a list of names of attendees for the purpose of building entry. The RSVP website is really not onerous, as it asks you only five things: (1) your name, (2) your email address, (3) if you are planning to attend just one or both days, (4) if you are interested in submitting a paper, panel, session, and (5) any dietary restrictions. The RSVP website can be found here. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rybAEYTXcN7xXCM6peG-6811qSk2yM0HYglx4rN1Ifs/viewform?c=0&w=1&fbzx=-2222293719069430190 Queerly yours, JP The Sexuality and Space Specialty Group Invites You to the 2016 AAG Preconference: Queer Politics and Extra-Marital Affairs March 27th ? 28th at City College of San Francisco As part of the upcoming AAG annual meeting to be held in San Francisco (28 March ? 2 April, 2016), the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group invites you to join us for our two-day preconference, to be held March 27th and 28th at the City College of San Francisco! Sexual, erotic, social, and political realities continue to shift around us, from the violent junctures of trans* women?s lives and US militarism in the Philippines to the recent British porn bans. Indeed, given the location of the AAG annual meeting in San Francisco this year, both the place and time seem ripe to stage collective and collaborative discussions around geography, sexuality ? both broadly imagined ? and their intersections To cultivate a space for both theoretical communion and active engagement-in-place, this preconference will be organized around a central theme: Queer Politics and Extra-Marital Affairs. In light of the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in the US, we ask how geographers might (re)think the politics of sexuality, intimacy, desire, and queerness? While sessions of all topics and types are welcome, we especially encourage sessions that explore these politics, both inclusive of US legalized same-sex marriage and outside these topical and national bounds. How are LGBT and queer activists organizing, at every political scale and arena? What is happening in San Francisco, itself a flashpoint in US and transnational LGBT politics? In the spirit of this theme, we will include several events with local Bay Area political activists, artists, and thinkers, including collaborators from our hosts at the City College of San Francisco. We hope this preconference will offer a space for geographers of all stripes to engage through the presentation of research, critical discussion, and casual conversation. To this end, we will be organizing a mixture of paper sessions, panels, keynote talks, workshops, and other gatherings. To make this preconference as engaging and fruitful as possible, we will reduce the number of concurrent sessions. Also, we especially encourage submissions from graduate students, post-doctoral and early-career scholars, and non-traditional scholars and thinkers. For those interested in contributing to these sessions in whatever form, or those with and questions, please contact see details below. See you in San Francisco! Date & Time: Sunday, 27 March, 2016, 2pm ? 6pm; Monday, 28 March, 2016, 8am ? 6pm. Please note: this is Easter weekend. Location: The City College of San Francisco. Exact room details TBD. Lodging: Please contact the organizers if interested in organizing shared lodging. Abstract Submission: Please submit them to: [log in to unmask] If you are interested in contributing or organizing your own session, please send us a paragraph explaining how you?d like to contribute or what you imagine organizing. Think outside the conference box! Registration: Registration is free. We also encourage folks to pre-register using this form: http://goo.gl/forms/83gPCnujqh Contact the organizers at: [log in to unmask] Pre-conference Steering Committee: Max Andrucki, Julian Barr, John Paul Catungal, Lia Frederiksen, Kai Mikael Kenttamaa Squires, Nerve Macaspac, Will McKeithen, Maria Rodó de Zárate, Derek Ruez -- JOHN PAUL CATUNGAL Starting January 2014: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Killam Honourary Fellow Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and Department of Geography University of British Columbia "Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover who we are, but to refuse who we are." (Michel Foucault) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.