[Commlist] Programme and Registration - Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures Conference

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Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures conference. Registration 
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About this event:

*Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures*Conference

*When:***11th - 14th May 2021

*Where:*Online

*Keynote Speakers:***Prof Richard Dyer (King's College London and the 
University of St Andrews) and Dr Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkley)

*Institution:***The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 
University of Edinburgh

This conference examines 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 representation in 
order to trace how LGBTQ media comments on both the current state of 
queer rights, as well as the possibility of queer futurity. The 
conference seeks 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. With 
our inclusive focus on transmedia representations of queerness, we aim 
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 evolved, we hope we may learn about 
creative spaces in which queerness can thrive.

*Keynote Speakers:*

*Richard Dyer*is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College, 
London, and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St 
Andrews, UK. His work has made formative contributions to a number of 
areas in film and cultural studies, be it in relation to queer 
representation, celebrity studies, or representations of race. His many 
books include///Stars/(1979),/White/(1997),/The Culture of 
Queers///(2002),///Nino Rota/(2010) and///In the Space of a Song/(2012), 
and he is the author of BFI Film Classics on/Se7en/(1999),/Brief 
Encounter/(2002, 2015) and/La Dolce Vita///(2017). He has been honoured 
by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the British Association of 
Film, Television and Screen Studies, and Turku and Yale Universities, 
and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

*Abigail De Kosnik** is an Associate Professor at the University of 
California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and 
the Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies. She is also the 
Director of BCNM, and is the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in 
New Media. She is the author of Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory 
and Media Fandom (MIT Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Keith Feldman, of 
#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (University 
of Michigan Press, 2019). She has published articles on media fandom, 
popular digital culture, social media, and performance studies in Third 
Text, Cinema Journal (now Journal of Cinema and Media Studies), The 
International Journal of Communication, Modern Drama, Transformative 
Works and Cultures, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Performance 
Research, and elsewhere. She co-organizes The Color of New Media, a 
working group focusing on technology and intersectionality. De Kosnik is 
Filipina American.*

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*_Conference Programme:_*

*_Tuesday May 11th 2021_*

*_13:00 Panel I: Queering the Family_*

*Gina Marchetti*, The Queer Gaze across the Gay-Straight Generational 
Divide: Mothers and Daughters in /Small Talk/(2016) and /A Dog Barking 
at the Moon/(2019)

*Kate McNicholas Smith, *Lesbian Motherhood in /The Fosters///

*Olga Doletskaya*, Queer parenthood in Russia: media representation of 
(il)legal families

*Billy Errington*, Framing Queer Time through the Family in /1985/(dir. 
Yen Tan, 2018)//

*Katie Hinders*, Is it Really the Happiest Season? - Coming Out and 
Queer Futurity

14: 15 Break

*_14: 30 Panel II: _**_Remembering Queerness I_*

*Christopher Pullen*, Picture it - ‘London in the 1980s: a hopeful and 
yet naive young man arrives in the city’: Situating the queer self 
within the nostalgic media frame

*Richard Sawdon-Smith*, Club 18-58: The Unknowing X of Pasts, Presents, 
Futures

*Kenneth Norwood, *Look Back at It: Isaac Julian’s /Looking for 
Langston/and Marlon Riggs’ /Tongues Untied/and the origin of BQAR Resistance

*Anamarija Horvat*, The Borders of Memory: (Re)imagining National 
History in International Queer Cinema

*Gareth Smith*, Class, Consumerism and Colonialism: Sexual Citizenship 
and the Post-War Homosexual Novel

15:45 Break

*_16:00 Keynote Speech_*

*Professor Richard Dyer*,**The Marginality of Marginality and the Case 
of /La dolce vita///

17:15 Close

*_Wednesday 12th May 2021_*


*_13:00 Panel I: North American Queer Television_*

*Kinga Erzepki*, The Harbingers of Change, Guides, and Innovators: The 
State of Non-Binary Television Representation in the US after Four Years

*Michael Goddard*, A Doomed Metamorphosis?: Gregg Araki from 
Transgressive Queer Cinema to Apocalyptic Television

*Jacqueline Ristola*, “We’ve made something entirely new”: colour design 
labour and queer representation in contemporary animation****

*Abigail Jenkins*, /Steven Universe/(2013 - 2019), /Steven Universe 
Future/(2019-2020), and /Kid Cosmic/(2021-): Lifting the Burden of 
Gendered Certainty in Children’s TV

*Sarah E. S. Sinwell*, “You Cannot Put A Fire Out”: Revisiting Queer 
Female Histories in /Anne with an E/and /Dickinson///

14: 15 Break**

*_14: 30 Panel II: _**_Queer Representation Across Borders I_*

*Jana Jedličková*,**How contemporary Czech retro TV series discovered 
gay people

*Arianna Bussoletti*,**The changing landscape of gender non-conforming 
characters: Non-binary Narratives and Representations in /Land of The 
Lustrous///

*Rafael Ventura, Vítor Blanco-Fernández, and Juan-Jose Sanchez-Soriano, 
*Breaking down the spiral of silence: Trans visibility and 
socio-cultural impact of Spanish TV-series/Veneno///

*Tatiana Klepikova*, What’s Straight about Russian Queer Theatre Now? 
Fabulations of Gender and Sexuality under Putin and Their Discontents

*Bianca Jasmina Rauch*, /Futur Drei/- a queer, post-migrant perspective*//*

15:45 Break

*_16:00 Panel III: Remembering Queerness II_*

*Dagmar Brunow*, Queering the archive? How (not) to deal with the 
ambivalence of LGBTI+ visibility in digital film collections

*Antoine Damiens*, Film festivals and 1970s gay film studies/criticism: 
inventing “gay cinema”

*Bridget Kies, *Murdering Our Queer Past on Television

*Ellie Turner-Kilburn*, 'The stories we tell make us the people we are': 
Exploring fannish histories and archontic archives in Robin Talley’s 
/Pulp/and Todd Haynes’ /Carol///

*Diana W. Anselmo*, Kindred Spirits: Queer Female Desire in Early Movie 
Scrapbooks**

17:15 Close

*_Thursday 14th May 2021_*


*_13:00 Panel I: Queer Representation Across Borders II_*__

*Rachel Milne*, ‘Fun, Fierce and Frivolous’: Afrobubblegum and the 
Possibilities of Queer African Love in /Rafiki///

*Hongwei Bao*, /East Palace, West Palace/: Performing Queer Desire in 
Theatre of Cruelty

*Geoffrey Maguire*, Futurity, /Fin de siglo/and New Gay Realism

*Javier Pérez-Osorio*, Screening through silence: the representation of 
queerness in /Retablo/(2017)

*Federico Picerni*, Tame the hooligan: LGBTQ representations in China’s 
pink capitalism

14: 15 Break**

*_14:30 Panel II:_**_Queerness Across Platforms_*

*Collier Nogues*, Together in the Future Wilderness: CAConrad’s Queer 
Appearances

*Giuseppe Zevolli*, “Trans Futurity” and Popular Modernism in 
Experimental Electronic Music

*Andrea Jacoby*, Memeing through the Loneliness: Queer Longing for 
Belonging on Tumblr

*Han Hongzheng*, Radical Self: Queer Asian Art in the face of White 
Supremacy****

*Avery Dame-Griff*, Warning Warning Warning: Locating the Obscene in 
English-language Transgender Homepages

15:45 Break

*_16:00 Panel III: Adaptation and Fanfiction_*

*Alice M. Kelly*, True Love’s Kiss: /Once Upon a Time/’s Compulsory 
Heterosexuality and Queer Female Desire in ‘Swan Queen’ Fanfic

*Suzanne R. Black*, Looking back to go forward: How fanfiction queers 
historical narratives****

*Inmaculada N. Sánchez García*, Sapphic Juliets: Queering/Romeo and 
Juliet/in contemporary European cinema

*Christine Roulston*, From Anne Lister to /Gentleman Jack/: Queer 
Temporality and the Losses and Gains of Adaptation

*Christina Wilkins*, Recalling the (queer) Body


*_Friday 15th May 2021_*


*_13:00 Panel I: Queer Space_*

*Carissa Foo*, Flushed Out: An Examination of Spatial-Sexual Discipline 
in Toilet Narratives

*Adam Vaughan*, Temporary Paradise: Queer Time, Space and Pastoral 
Visions in /Call Me By Your Name///

*Candice D. Roberts*, Embracing Joy and The Queer Body: Media 
World-Building and Mapping Queer Space in/Schitt’s Creek///

*Jeniece Lusk*, Bibles and Bathrooms: Intersex Awareness Among 
College-Aged American Christians

*Aleksandra Gajowy*, Where is the/Muranów Lily/? Unearthing traces of 
queer Jewishness in contemporary Warsaw

14: 15 Break

*_14: 30 Panel II: _**_(Un)Seeing Queerness: The Legibility of 
Representation_*

*Zoë Shacklock*, The Category Is: Queer Media and the Algorithm

*Gilad Padva*, Screening Insistent Faggotry: The (In)consistent 
Cinematic Representation of Sissyness and Effeminate Theatricality in 
Pretending-to-Be-Gay Films

*Odhran O’Donoghue*, Akwaeke Emezi’s /Pet/and the subversion of ‘just 
happen to be’ queer narratives

*Clara Bradbury-Rance, *‘There is a sex scene in the film… maybe you 
haven’t seen it’: Lesbian legibility and queer legacy in Céline 
Sciamma’s /Portrait of a Lady on Fire/(2019)

*Barbara Plotz*, The Contemporary “Odd” Gay Romance

15:45 Break

*_16:00 Keynote Speech_*

*Dr Abigail De Kosnik*, Queerness + Fandom + Piracy

17:15 Close

*_Poster Presentations:_*

*Kate Manlik,*‘Maybe We Don’t Exist’: The Erasure of Lesbian and Queer 
Women in /It’s a Sin/

*Dawn Woolley and AC Davidson*, Bois of Isolation (BOI): queering gender 
binaries in the confines of the pandemic

*Jordan Fraser Emery,*Virtual and immersive restitution of research in a 
queer context

Lucy Mooring,‘Nowt as queer as folk’: understanding the relationship 
between queer women and rural space

*Veronica G. Llamas,*Queer Fashion: Examining LGBTIQ Identity, 
Aesthetics and Commerce in London as a Global City

*Danilo Barauna, *Besideness: distance and proximity as orientations to 
inhabit the space in projective moving image art installations

*Barbara Wolfram,*Missing Out: A quantitative analysis on queer 
(non-)representation in Austrian feature films from 1997-2017

*Ray Liehui Wang, *Translating Homosexuality into Chinese: Case Studies 
of the Chinese Translations of Andre Aciman’s Male Gay-themed Novels

*Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco,*The party as a space for the repoliticization 
of queerness: performance and sexual dissidence through documentary 
photography in Mexico

Antoine Badaoui,Online disruptive visibility: LGBT social media activism 
in Lebanon

*Seray Hekimoğlu, *Representations of Queer Spaces and Identities in 
Turkish Cinema

*Connie van Gils**, *Men with moustaches: gay guys depicting their dream 
guy in the eighties - or what a visual presentation of the history of 
gay nightlife in the Netherlands can teach us

*Divya Garg,*The Limits of Media Fandom’s Queer Politics: Reading 
Queer/Disabled Subjectivities in Marvel fanfiction

*Ricardo Ramirez Vallejos*, Chilean Gays and Lesbians Evaluating TV 
Representations of Homosexuality: The Construction of The Possible And 
The Real

*Lena Meyskens*, “RU-VEAL YOURSELF!” Queer coding in Louise Narbone’s 
2014 stage direction of Vinci’s/Artaserse /


*Organisers:***Dr Anamarija Horvat ((anamarija.horvat /at/ ed.ac.uk)) and Dr 
Alice Kelly ((dr.alice.m.kelly /at/ gmail.com))



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