[Commlist] cfp: Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures Conference

We're happy to announce that the *Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, 
Futures* will be taking place* online on May 11th-14th 2021*. The 
keynote speakers will be *Prof Richard Dyer and Dr Abigail De Kosnik. *

If you would like to be considered for the conference, please email us 
your abstract (150-200 words) and bionote by*March 8th to 
*(queerrep.conference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(queerrep.conference /at/ gmail.com)>.The conference format will be 
more relaxed and informal as a virtual event. We anticipate panels 
consisting of participants introducing their research topic with 
a*10-minute presentation*, before a round-table discussion on the theme 
of the panel. With this in mind, we invite you to submit 5 keywords or 
themes along with your abstract.

*Conference attendance* will be* free of charge* but will require 
booking in advance. Please see the detailed CFP bellow.

CFP:*Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures***

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

*Where*: Online

*Keynote Speakers*: Prof Richard Dyer (King's College London) and Dr 
Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkeley)**

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

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 /(2018-2020, 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
  * queerness and queering in media fandom
  * 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
  * queer archives (physical and digital)
  * queer online space and digital new media

Organisers: Dr Anamarija Horvat and Dr Alice Kelly

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