[Commlist] CFP: Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures

We are happy to invite you to the Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, 
Futures conference.

When: May 21st - 22nd 2020
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of 
Edinburgh

Keynote Speaker: Prof Richard Dyer (King's College London)

This conference aims to examine how LGBTQ representation has changed 
through time, continues to evolve in the present, and what role it might 
play in the future. It draws on recent developments in queer on-screen 
representation - ranging from the increased focus on transgender and 
queer of colour protagonists in series such as Pose (2018, FX-), 
Transparent (2014-2019, Amazon Prime), Vida (2018-, Starz) and Orange is 
the New Black (2013-2019, Netflix), to depictions of queer characters in 
children’s programmes such as Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe (2013-) 
- in order to trace how LGBTQ media comments on both the current state 
of queer rights, as well as the possibility of queer futurity (Edelman 
2004; Muñoz 2009). At the same time, it builds on work done on queer 
archives and histories (Cvetkovich 2003; Castiglia and Reed 2012; Dunn 
2016; De Kosnik 2016) in order to question how queer lives were once 
commemorated, how these memories live on, and how representation has 
changed from then to now.

We invite presentations on queer art, film, television, and literature, 
as well as social media and digital scholarship. The conference will 
work to represent a multiplicity of queer experiences, spanning 
divergent historical and geographical areas of representation, as well 
as the plurality of ideas of what it means to identify as queer today, 
and what this identification might look like in the future. We build 
here on work looking at the evolution of LGBTQ representation in diverse 
contexts, as well as notions of transnational queer representation 
(Schoonover and Galt 2016) and regionality (Yue 2014; Chiang and Wong 
2016). With our inclusive focus on transmedia representations of 
queerness, we hope to examine narratives of sex, identity, politics, 
family and gender across a broad range of contexts, mediums and 
artforms. We ask how queer representation has changed, what versions of 
queerness we remember today, and how that can manifest in our hopes or 
fears for the future. Through investigating which narratives of 
queerness persist, and how representational patterns have changed, we 
hope we may learn about creative spaces in which queerness can thrive.

We invite abstracts dealing with different examples of LGBTQ 
representation, as well as presentations which analyse the overall 
evolution of queer representation in specific mediums and contexts. 
Topics may include but are not limited to:


  *   the evolution of queer on-screen representation in film, 
television, literature, gaming, etc.
  *   different regional and national representations of queerness
  *   the past, present and future of queer intersectionality
  *   representations of queer histories and memory
  *   queer adaptation
  *   queer representation in different countries and contexts
  *   different conceptualisations of what it means to represent queerness
  *   The evolutions of homonormativity and homonationalism
  *   queer futurity and the future of queer representation

Organisers: Dr Anamarija Horvat 
((anamarija.horvat /at/ ed.ac.uk)<mailto:(anamarija.horvat /at/ ed.ac.uk)>) and Dr 
Alice Kelly ((Alice.kelly /at/ ed.ac.uk)<mailto:(Alice.kelly /at/ ed.ac.uk)>)

To submit an abstract (200-300 words), please contact us by March 20th 
2020 at 
(queerrep.conference /at/ gmail.com)<mailto:(queerrep.conference /at/ gmail.com)>. We 
offer a small amount of travel bursaries to assist presenters who are 
students/unwaged/low-waged. If you would like to be considered for these 
please indicate so when submitting an abstract. Web page: 
https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-papers-queer-representation-pasts-presents-futures

The conference will take place in the Old College at the University of 
Edinburgh, which is fully accessible.


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