[Commlist] “Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities” Conference registration and programme

BCMCR are pleased to announce that the conference schedule for the 
“Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities” Conference is now 
available: 
https://bcmcr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Transgressive-Identities-and-Subjectivities-BCMCR-Conference-Schedule-and-Book-of-Abstracts-.pdf 
<https://bcmcr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Transgressive-Identities-and-Subjectivities-BCMCR-Conference-Schedule-and-Book-of-Abstracts-.pdf>

Registration is now open - please join us for this two day conference, 
full information below.

Venue: Parkside Building, Birmingham City University (and online)
Date: Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th June 2025
Time: 9am-5.30pm both days

Link to conference information, including registration, information 
about Birmingham, travel, and accommodation: 
https://bcmcr.org/event/cfp-transgressive-identities-and-subjectivities-bcmcr-conference-17th-18th-june-2025/ 
<https://bcmcr.org/event/cfp-transgressive-identities-and-subjectivities-bcmcr-conference-17th-18th-june-2025/>

Conference Fees:
In-person conference fee: £30 waged, £15 students/unwaged (refreshments 
and lunch provided both days)
Online conference fee: £15.
Deadline for registration - Monday 9^th  June 5pm BST.

About the conference:

This conference seeks to highlight the impact of media, culture and 
society in shaping transgressive identities and subjectivities. We use 
these two terms, identities and subjectivities, to indicate the shifting 
understandings of selfhood that occur across media and cultural studies, 
in order to be attendant to the affects and effects that are shaped 
beyond the individual.

Historically, transgression has been understood and positioned in terms 
of deviance and deviant behaviours. In discussing a deeper understanding 
of “transgression” Wolfreys (2008) posits that transgression is deeper 
than a form of deviance and instead “is the very pulse that constitutes 
our identities, and we would have no sense of our own subjectivity were 
it not for a constant, if discontinuous negotiation with the 
transgressive otherness by which we are formed and informed”.

Additionally, Jenks (2003) argues that “[t]ransgression is a deeply 
reflexive act” that “serves as an extremely sensitive vector in 
assessing the scope, direction and compass of any social theory.” In 
doing so this allows individuals and communities to consider how media, 
culture and society empowers and enables people to move outside of the 
spaces of expected conformity, to deny and affirm different modes of 
being and selfhood.

Moreover, the debates surrounding transgressive identities and 
subjectivities are not unidirectional; they are countered by forms of 
resistance and that challenge dominant narratives of transgression. 
Alongside these forms of resistance is a need to understand and 
recognise the limitations of transgression, transgressive behaviours, 
identities and subjectivities, where their cyclical and historically 
fluid nature have in many ways become commodified and integrated into 
mainstream cultures.

We therefore see this conference as an opportunity to explore both the 
potentials and the limitations of transgression and transgression of 
“selfhood” in media, culture and society. This is particularly pertinent 
at present, where, in many parts of the world expressions of 
transgression are being stifled and stymied through acts of secular and 
religious laws.

Panels include:

Non-Human and Transgressive Bodies
Representing “Subversive” Genders
Horror and Monstrosity
Transgressive Games Cultures
Class, Culture and Consumerism
Music, place, and the articulation of transgressive identities: Popular 
Music Listening Session Playlist
Social Media and Online Transgressions
Cultural Theory Roundtable

In addition to standard paper presentations, we have some short 
screenings, a listening session, a roundtable, and a panel of short 
takes. We really hope this format encourages greater engagement and 
interaction with the conference theme.

If you have any queries, please contact the conference co-conveners Dr 
Poppy Wilde (poppy.wilde /at/ bcu.ac.uk) and Dr Matt Grimes (matt.grimes /at/ bcu.ac.uk).


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