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We are pleased to announce the final line-up for the BSA Early Career Forum Event taking place at University of Surrey on June 30th. Non-presenting attendees are welcome, please register your interest with the BSA:
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/queer-studies-looking-back-looking-forward/
Deadline for registration is Friday 16th, however places are limited and registration might therefore close early.
Queer Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Friday 30th June 2017, University of Surrey, Guildford
BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Zowie Davy, De Montfort University
Dr Yiu-Tung Suen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Presentations:
Sebastian Bartos – Queer Heroes: A Content Analysis of
Mainstream and Queer News Media
Ben Colliver – Transforming the Landscape of Hate: A Critical
Exploration of the ‘Everyday’ and ‘Mundane’ Reality of Transphobic Hate Crime
Eliza Garwood – Lifecourse Perspectives of Adults Raised
by LGBTQ Parents
David Griffiths
– Class, Non-Heterosexuality and the Social Mirror Stage
Mia Harris - Being LGBT in Prison: Experiences on Paper
and in Practice
Diletta Luminari - Changing families, (un)acceptable reproductive
subjects, and patterns of inequalities: the case of Italian homosexuals becoming parents through surrogacy
Ruth Pearce – “A Time of Anticipation”: Trans Temporalities
and the Gender Identity Clinic
Katy Pilcher – ‘Sexual’ Spaces for Women: Politics, Pleasure
and Power
Lizzie Reed – Rethinking Normativity: Making Queer and
Family Identities
Claire Tunnacliffe – Que(e)ring Place
Ben Walters – Duckie and the Power of Queer Fun
Eliz Wong – Queer Dilemma in Quantitative Research
Posters:
Joel Anderson – Sounds like Prejudice!: Auditory Activation
of Religion Increases Bias Against Gay Men
Yulia Dwi Andriyanti – Indonesian LBT Activist Collective
Identity Construction within Women Movement after Reformasi
Eva Cheuk-Yin Li - Querying Gender: Zhongxing (Neutral
Gender/Sex) Phenomenon and Popular Culture in Urban China and Hong Kong
James Cummings – Constructing Sexual Lives in a Changing
Society: Gay Men’s Understandings of Sexual Being, Belonging and Identity in Hainan
Niall Farnan – What is the future for transgender performance,
and is the current media frenzy an open door for new gender non-conforming artists and performers, or is this just cisgender fascination?
Ruth Pearce – “A Time of Anticipation”: Trans Temporalities
and the Gender Identity Clinic
Sapphira Thorne – Equality and Romantic Love: How Reflective
are Perceptions of Romantic Love of Queer Experiences?
Mertcan Uzun - How does the heteronormative structure
of a given country affect its people’s attitudes towards homosexuality? Establishing a Heteronormative Typology
Registration
Registration costs £10 for BSA members and £25 for non-members:
www.britsoc.co.uk.
There are a limited number of free spaces for unwaged or unaffiliated individuals. Please contact
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Organising committee:
Kirsty Lohman, Katherine Hubbard, Andrew King.
Dr Kirsty Lohman
Leverhulme Research Fellow, ‘Punk, Politics and Gender in the UK’
https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/awards-made/awards-focus/punk-politics-and-gender-uk
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