[ecrea] CFPs: Symposium on Queer/ing Regions, Nottingham Trent University

Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference
Nottingham Trent University

Research Symposium: Queer/ing Regions
February 7, 2013
Organisers: Dr. Cuneyt Cakirlar, Dr. Hongwei Bao

Call for papers
This research symposium aims to facilitate a critical intellectual exchange focusing on the discourses of the “regional” in contemporary queer criticism. Departing from the “transnational” turn in the second-wave queer scholarship exploring the global/ised intersections between race, ethnicity, nation/diaspora, gender and sexuality, we would like to address the possibilities/potentials of a critical “self-regioning” and thus to question the ways in which the complex regional/local formations of sexual dissidence emerges as objects of theoretical inquiry once situated within a global context by means of the critical, academic and activist practice.

We would like to revisit the critical potentials of reclaiming the regional in queer critique. Rather than presuming the regional actors as passive recipients of global flux, this conversation will be delving into the complex dynamics of the global/local binary in sexual politics. How can we understand transnational formations of sexual subjectivities without assuming a radical alterity between the local and the global, or the west and the east? How can we understand the uneasy nexus of community and sexuality in a global framework? How can we identify modes of negotiation and contestation in the encounter of the local sexual politics and practices with the Gay International?

This one-day research symposium will bring together queer studies scholars from NTU and other UK universities to give research papers, to present their creative writing works, and to participate in roundtable discussions.

Invited speakers include:
Dr. Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr. Gavin Brown, University of Leicester
Dr. Howard Chiang, the University of Warwick
Dr. Serkan Delice, University of the Arts London
Dr. Robert Kulpa, the University of East Anglia
Professor Richard Philips, University of Sheffield
Professor William Spurlin, Brunel University

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the symposium, please send your title and abstract to Dr. Cuneyt Cakirlar (E-mail:(cuneyt.cakirlar /at/ ntu.ac.uk)) and Dr. Hongwei Bao (E-mail:(hongwei.bao /at/ ntu.ac.uk)) before Dec. 15, 2012.



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