[Commlist] CFP Conference Queer Cinema in the World

*CFP X GECA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: QUEER CINEMA AROUND THE WORLD*

This conference examines how international queer cinema has changed over 
time, how it continues to evolve in the present and what role it could 
play in the future in constructing imaginaries, posing plural images and 
challenging the stereotypes, narratives and aesthetics that other types 
of cinema disseminate. In this sense, we want to offer possible answers 
to the questions posed by a term -"queer cinema"- that is difficult to 
translate in the Spanish-speaking context: are we talking about films 
directed by LGBTIQ+ directors and/or about films that place the 
representation of lesbian, gay, bi, intersex or trans identities at the 
centre? Or are we talking about films whose audiovisual language 
challenges the aesthetics and visuality of Hollywood cinema? "Queer 
Cinema around the World" is an international conference in *hybrid 
format *(online and face-to-face) that will take place on *October 5th, 
6th and 7th 2022 at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the 
Complutense University of Madrid*.

Thus, we are interested in queer cinema as a cultural product capable of 
creating worlds and of intervening in the existing debates surrounding 
gender, sexuality, identity, equality, the national, the transnational 
and the global. In this sense, we start from an understanding of queer 
cinema from two dimensions: content (the representation of 
non-cisheteronormative subjectivities) and form; in the words of Teresa 
de Lauretis, we define a film as queer from the formal perspective 
insofar as it "not only works against narrativity, the generic pressure 
of all narrative toward closure and the fulfillment of meaning, but also 
pointedly disrupts the referentiality of language and the referentiality 
of images " (2011, p. 244). Furthermore, we use the term "queer" not as 
a synonym for LGBT, but as what is*positioned in opposition to the 
normal and normative rather than the cisheterosexual* (Warner, 1993), 
and which also connotes an anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-binary and 
anti-ableist position. In this way, in this conference we will also 
cover the study of those bodies and desires that have been constructed 
as socially unacceptable, but that do not necessarily fit the LGBTI 
label, such as non-normative sexual practices, BDSM or incestuous 
drives. From this idea of queer as non-normative, we also propose to 
analyse what kind of aesthetic mechanisms break with the norms of the 
cinematic language of the Institutional Mode of Representation (Burch, 
1989); therefore, we invite proposals that have to do with the 
relationship between queer cinema and haptic visuality, the cinema of 
affects, slow cinema or the intersections between arthouse cinema and 
the mainstream.

This conference aims to represent a multiplicity of queer experiences, 
covering divergent historical, aesthetic, thematic and geographical 
areas of representation, as well as trying to offer an approach to the 
plurality of ideas of what the term "queer cinema" means today. We do so 
from an intersectional perspective that also contemplates the 
representation of other identity vectors such as race, class, age or 
functional diversity; we also aim to establish a dialogue on the 
cinematic representations of queerness not only from Europe and North 
America, but also from other geographies, with an emphasis on the 
Ibero-American world.

By way of description, but not exhaustively, we invite submissions on 
the following issues:

● Representations of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, queer and 
non-binary subjectivities, with special emphasis on trans cinema.
● International queer cinema, partiularly regarding Spanish and Latin 
American productions
●  Queer film aesthetics
● LGBTIQ+ filmmakers around the world
● Queer film production: between commercial and independent cinema
● Reception and audience studies: LGBITQ+ festivals, fandom networks, etc.
● Queer fashion films / uses of fashion in queer cinema
● Intersections between literature, art, music and queer cinema
● Queer research methodologies in film studies
●  Representations of non-LGBT forbidden desires: non-normative sexual 
practices, BDSM, cybersexualities, incestuous drives, etc.

The *registration fee* for the 10th GECA International Conference: Queer 
Cinema in the World is*€30 for students* who can prove their status 
and*€70 for all other participants.* The *deadline for sending us your 
proposals* (title of the paper + abstract of 300 words maximum + brief 
curriculum vitae)*to (info.geca /at/ ucm.es) <mailto:(info.geca /at/ ucm.es)> is 
September 15th 2022. *

All interested participants are eligible to publish their paper in the 
thematic dossier of the journal Estudios LGBTIQ+, Comunicación y Cultura 
<https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ESLG> to be published in June 2023; 
the deadline for submission of the full text (in English, Spanish or 
Portuguese) is January 15th, 2023.


References:

Burch, N. (1989). Praxis del Cine. Editorial Fundamentos.
De Lauretis, T. (2011). Queer texts, bad habits, and the issue of a 
future. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17(2-3), 243-263.
Warner, M. (1993). Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social 
Theory. Yale University Press.


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