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CfP: 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference: PLAY
 (University of Turku)

CFP: 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference: PLAY University of Turku 28-29 May, 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: Tom Apperley (University of Tampere), Kane Race (University of Sydney) & Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University) The 3rd Sexual Cultures Conference focuses on the notion of play, understood as autotelic practices of pleasure where the enchantment of the activity is an end in itself. As the game studies scholar Miquel Sicart nevertheless notes, the pleasures of play can be ambivalent indeed: “Play is not necessarily fun. It is pleasurable, but the pleasures it creates are not always submissive to enjoyment, happiness, or positive traits. Play can be pleasurable when it hurts, offends, challenges us and teases us, and even when we are not playing. Let’s not talk about play as fun but as pleasurable, opening us to the immense variations of pleasure in this world.” Building on this understanding of play, as well as sex, as […]

Interventions: New Perspectives on Politics, Freedom, and Democracy

Interventions: New Perspectives on Politics, Freedom, and Democracy May 10, 2019 – Leicester, UK.  Keynote address from Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway. Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: February 1st, 2019.  Please send all submissions to interventions2019@gmail.com. Interventions 2019 aims to critically explore pertinent socio-political issues and their cultural representations. Papers of twenty minutes might include, but are not limited to: •    Post-truth politics •    Neoliberalism and freedom •    Democratic participation •    Class and austerity politics •    Globalisation, migration, and citizenship •    Censorship, offense, and free speech •    Autonomy and marginalised identities •    Resistance and activism in the arts and humanities •    Theoretical interventions with regard to freedom and democracy •    Cultural responses to political events •    Social media and social movements •    Politics and the academe •    Corporations, governments, and accountability •    Politics and mental health •    Technologies and democracy •    Anti-semitism and Islamophobia

CfP: Queer Celebrity Conference (Portsmouth)

Queer Celebrity Conference University of Portsmouth 6th-7th June 2019 Keynote Speakers: Professor Richard Dyer (King’s College, London) Professor Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) Dr Michèle Mendelssohn (University of Oxford)   The focus of celebrity studies on the cultural mediation and function of a diverse range of public personalities has foregrounded an ever-growing archive of queer celebrities. This conference aims to explore how the entry of queer figures into the public imagination, in different historical periods and geographical locations, has had a transnational, even global, impact, changing perceptions, attitudes and the way individuals live their lives. LGBTQ figures, for example, have risen to public prominence and become positive role models, while negotiating their fame alongside cultural associations of homosexuality with crime, scandal and blackmail. The refusal of closeted celebrities to come out underlines the detrimental effects of homophobia on popularity, but also celebrity culture’s preoccupation with the open secret. ‘Straight’ celebrities have […]

UCL Special Collections Visiting Fellowship

UCL Special Collections Visiting Fellowship University College London is pleased to invite applications for its Special Collections Visiting Fellowship. The Fellowship offers an opportunity to visit UCL to conduct research on a topic centred on the Special Collections holdings. The Fellowship is open to researchers external to UCL in any discipline at all levels from PhD onwards. UCL Special Collections holds one of the foremost university collections of manuscripts, archives and rare books in the UK. They include fine collections of medieval manuscripts and early printed books as well as highly important 19th and 20th century collections of personal papers, archival material, and literature, covering a vast range of subject areas. The successful candidate will spend up to six weeks, or the part-time equivalent, at UCL researching the collections. The Visiting Fellow will receive a grant of £3,500 to cover travel, accommodation and living expenses.  The Fellowship must be taken […]

CfP: DIGITAL⇌CULTURE 2019 (University of Nottingham)

CALL FOR PAPERS: DIGITAL⇌CULTURE 2019 A one-day conference hosted by the Digital Culture Research Network, and supported by the Midlands3Cities DTP (M3C) Cohort Development Fund   Date: Friday 10th May 2019 Venue: University of Nottingham Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday 15th February 2019 The Digital Culture Research Network is pleased to open the call for papers for our second annual conference – ‘Digital⇌Culture 2019’. This year’s theme of ‘ACCESS’ seeks to respond to the continued ways in which digital technologies are profoundly impacting social, cultural, and institutional interactions with content, data, and platforms. Rapidly changing modes of knowledge and value production, means of accessibility, and concerns around privacy and censorship have given rise to increased scrutiny of the current digital landscape and our interactions with(in) it. Submission For this one-day conference we invite researchers, particularly early career researchers, from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to present theoretical and empirical research related, but not limited, […]

Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema (University of Northampton)

University of Northampton Park Campus, Boughton Green Rd, Northampton, United Kingdom

Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema University of Northampton (UK) 16/02/2019 – 17/02/2019 From Weekend (dir. Andrew Haigh, 2011) to Call me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2017), from God’s Own Country (dir. Francis Lee, 2017) to Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2016) and Love, Simon (dir. Greg Berlanti, 2018), contemporary Western gay male cinema has endured a shift in both representational strategies and a boom in popularity within both mainstream and independent spheres, since 2010. ‘Western gay male cinema’, more specifically, refers to cinema that features a gay male protagonist, has narrative themes that relate to gay male identities and films that are primarily produced for gay male audiences. Prior to 2010, there have been Western gay male films that have been significant in either their representations or their popularity (ranging from the films that centred on gay men in New Queer Cinema to films such as Brokeback Mountain ), however, Western gay male films since […]

2019 HOTCUS Winter Symposium (University of Lincoln)

University of Lincoln

2019 HOTCUS Winter Symposium: “Nuclear States": Science, Technology, and American Society in the Atomic Age University of Lincoln February 16th 2019 Plenary Speaker: Dr Audra Wolfe University of Pennsylvania In August 2017 President Donald Trump tweeted that if North Korea continued its path of missile development than it would be “met with fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen”. This aggressive rhetoric, coupled with Trump’s subsequent withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement, acted as a stark reminder for citizens of the United States and the world beyond of the continuing apocalyptic potential of nuclear technologies. Americans have lived with the shadows cast by the bomb on American politics, society and culture, alongside more affirmative visions of ‘free energy,’ ‘plowshares’, medical applications, and scientific advance for seventy years. As Trump’s fiery rhetoric revives Cold War concerns about nuclear doom, the time is ripe for historians to […]

The 64th BAAS Annual Conference (University of Sussex)

University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom

The 64th BAAS Annual Conference 25-27 April 2019, University of Sussex Keynote Speakers: Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania/University of Oxford), Robyn Weigman (Duke University), Jonathan Bell (UCL)

American Literature Association 30th Annual Conference

The Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

American Literature Association, 30th Annual Conference, May 23-26, 2019 Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Conference Director:  Olivia Carr Edenfield Georgia Southern University Conference Fee:  For those who pre-register before April 15, 2019:  $100 ($75 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired Faculty). After April 15, the fees are $125 and $100.

The 12th Biennial Symbiosis Conference, 11-14 July 2019, University of Dundee, Scotland.

University of Dundee Nethergate, Dundee, United Kingdom

The 12th Biennial Symbiosis Conference, 11-14 July 2019, University of Dundee, Scotland. The 12th Biennial Symbiosis Conference will take place at the University of Dundee, Scotland, 11-14 July 2019. As ever, there will be papers and panels on all areas of Transatlantic literary exchange. https://www.symbiosistransatlantic.com/conferences/  

UCL Institute of the Americas Event

When exactly did the term ‘punk’ go from street insult to global descriptor of a subcultural musical phenomenon? This talk departs from a now abandoned historical question: When exactly did the term ‘punk’ go from street insult to global descriptor of a subcultural musical phenomenon? Contrary to popular belief, the story that ensues does not centre on the mid-seventies but rather the late sixties. Nor does it involve rehashed accounts of London or New York, asking instead we reconceptualize Saginaw, Michigan as an epicentre of certain cosmic forces. Even more contrary to belief, the primary figure in the story involves a punk who refuses to be named as such, presenting instead as a utopian whose refusal to engage in identity politics opens up a radical ontological horizon from which the most important lessons to be gained come from the Wildebeest. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2020/mar/cancelled-not-being-punk-or-mexican-american-and-predicating-wildebeest-our-future

UCL Institute of the Americas Event

The Institute of Historical Research presents this event, part of its North American History series, in collaboration with UCL Institute of the Americas.   https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2020/mar/cancelled-hidden-plain-sight-camouflage-tactics-and-indian-non-removal-american