Dear all,
Just a reminder that the deadline for call for papers for the 2011
Lesbian
Lives conference 'REVOLTING: BODIES, POLITICS & GENDERS' is approaching.
Further details can be found at http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/lesbian-lives
and
submissions should be emailed to [log in to unmask] by *November 26th
2010
*.
We have received an excitingly wide range of proposals for
presentations,
performances and workshops and *already confirmed speakers include Ali
Smith, Emma Donoghue, Joan Nestle, Davina Cooper, Sarah Franklin,
Caroline
Gonda and Rose Collis.*
If you have any queries please don't hesitate to get in touch on
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Best wishes
Kath Browne
(on behalf of the conference team)
CFP:
*Apologies for cross posting; please advertise widely.*
*18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference*
*REVOLTING: BODIES, POLITICS & GENDERS*
*University of Brighton, UK*
*11-12 February 2011*
Hosted by the University of Brighton LGBT and Queer Life Research Hub
in conjunction with the Women's Studies Centre, University College
Dublin
University of Brighton's LGBTQ Life Research Hub is proud to co-host the
18th Lesbian Lives conference with University College Dublin at the
University of Brighton in February 2011. It is the only annual academic
conference in Lesbian Studies, bringing together academics, activists,
performers and writers from all continents to network across
international
and professional boundaries and provides a unique forum dedicated to
exploration of lesbian identity and experience.
Lesbian Lives hosts the best-known and emerging scholars in the field,
and
speakers such as Kate Bornstein, Emma Donoghue, Jackie Kay, Cherry
Smyth,
Del La Grace Volcano, Sarah Waters and academics such as Sara Ahmed,
Terry
Castle, Laura Doan, Lillian Faderman, Sarah Franklin, Clare Hemmings,
Alison
Hennegan, Sally R. Munt, Eve Sedgwick, Helena Whitbread, Bonnie
Zimmerman
among many others have contributed to the conference over the years.
*Conference convenors of this two-day international and
interdisciplinary
conference now welcome proposals from academics, scholars, students,
activists, documentary and film-makers, writers and artists. ***
Proposals are welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the
following:
Revolting lesbians - Bodies beautiful and/or grotesque - Revulsion and
Disgust - Freaks and Families - Shame and Shock - Feminisms and
Movements -
Sex - Archives and Ageing - Class - Race and Ethnicity - Transformations
-
Paranormal and Out of this World - Femmes Fatale - Cyber and Sonic -
Mobility.
The conference organisers welcome proposals for (A) individual papers,
(B)
sessions, (C) round table discussions, (D) workshops and (E) visual
presentations or performances. You can find more information on
presentation
formats on our website.
E-mail proposals (up to 300 words) to [log in to unmask] or post them
to:
Lesbian Lives conference
c/o Dr Kath Browne
University of Brighton
School of the Environment & Technology
Cockcroft Building, Lewes Road
Brighton BN2 4GJ
UK
The closing date for the submission of proposals is *Friday 26th
November
2010.*
For further information visit our website:
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/lesbian-lives
If you have any queries please don't hesitate to get in touch on
[log in to unmask]
Dr. Kath Browne,
Principal Lecturer,
School of the Environment & Technology,
Cockcroft Building,
Lewes Road,
Brighton,
BN2 4GJ,
England.
Tel: +44 1273 642377
Email: [log in to unmask]
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