Programme
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Wednesday 1 May
| 20.00 | Art Tour (New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College) Queer Aspects of the New Hall Art Collection |
Thursday 2 May
| 9.20 | Coffee and Registration (Buckingham House Foyer) | |
| 9.50 | Welcome (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) Geoffrey Maguire (Cambridge), Fraser Riddell (Oxford), Tom Smith (St Andrews) |
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| 10.00 | Panel 1 (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) Dismembered and Disembodied: Reading Queer Poetry Robert Gillett (Queen Mary University of London), Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Art of Queer Feeling in A Shropshire Lad Poem 48 Benjamin Westwood (Oxford), The Queer Art of Reading: Poems, Parts and Partiality in the Writing of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Emily E. Roach (University of York, UK), Transgender Performance Poetry and the Ghosts of Childhood |
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| 11.30 | Break (Buckingham House Foyer) | |
| 11.45 | Panel 2 | |
| Compassion and Care (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) | Affective Afterlives of HIV/AIDS (Buckingham House Seminar Room) | |
| Ervin Malakaj (British Columbia), Feeling Hirschfeld
Jaimee Stockman-Young (Auckland), The Archive Keeps the Score: Healing Community Trauma through Creative Practice Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio (Cambridge), Curations of a Nepantlera: Kaleidoscopic Bodies, Minor Translations and Affective Becomings in Inés Estrada’s Impatience (2016) |
Simon Dickel (Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen), Vitalizing AIDS-Activism
Robbie Mills (King’s College London), Regarding Those Other Activisms: Recuperative Historiographies and the Promise of Film Theory Louisa Hann (Manchester), ‘If We Can’t Have a Conversation with Our Past, then What Will Be Our Future?’ HIV/AIDS, Queer Generationalism and Utopian Performatives in Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance |
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| 13.15 | Lunch (Fellows’ Drawing Room) | |
| 14.15 | Panel 3 | |
| Religion, Spirituality and the Queer Body (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) | The Queer First Person (Buckingham House Seminar Room) | |
| Greg Salter (Birmingham), Rotimi Fani-Kayode, the Body and the Intimacy of Queer History
Toni R. Juncosa (Barcelona), ‘The Ashy Hallelujah of Knees’: From Queer Disorientation to Sexual Empowerment in Danez Smith’s Poetry Rey Conquer (Oxford), ‘No One Gets Out of Here Alive’? Jesse Darling’s Queer Theology of Feeling |
Sherilyn Hellberg (Berkeley), On the Bodily Education of Young Girls: Colette, Wedekind, Jaeggy
Jess Hannah (University College London), ‘Our Programme – Undo the Normative Conquest’: Representing Embodied Experience in Brigid Brophy’s In Transit Kiersten van Vliet (McGill), ‘I put myself down in order to speak’: Humorous Self-Deprecation in Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette |
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| 15.45 | Coffee (Buckingham House Foyer) | |
| 16.15 | Panel 4 (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) Feeling in Public: Visibility and Privacy Kyle Frackman (British Columbia), The Orientation of the Living Room: Queer Eroticism and Political Critique within East German Domestic Spaces Alisa Kronberger (Marburg), Æffects in Queer New Media Art: A New Materialistic Approach to the Alphabet of Feeling Bad Lawrence Alexander (Cambridge), Foundation, Gloss, Concealer: Make-Up and the Minoritarian Subject in Jennie Livingston’s Paris is Burning and Hito Steyerl’s How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File |
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| 17.45 | Break | |
| 18.00 | Performances and Wine Reception: Queer Classicisms (Fellows’ Drawing Room) Co-organised with the lgbtQ+@Cam Initiative and Andrew Webber (University of Cambridge Equality Champion) Emma Johnson (London) and Evan Silver (Cambridge), Odd Odysseys: Queering the Classics Naomi Woo (Cambridge) and Sophie Seita (Cambridge), Beethoven Was A Lesbian |
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| 20.30 | Conference Dinner (The Brew House, Cambridge) | |
Friday 3 May
| 9.30 | Keynote (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) Sara Ahmed, Complaint as Queer Method |
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| 11.00 | Coffee (Buckingham House Foyer) | |
| 11.30 | Panel 5 | |
| Embodied Queer Futures (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) | Contemporary Queer Intimacies (Buckingham House Seminar Room) | |
| Asilia Franklin-Phipps (City University of New York) and Laura Smithers (Old Dominion), The Potential of Despair: Queer Isolation and the Pedagogy of Cinema
Tyler Carson (Rutgers University – New Brunswick), Engendering the Anti-Social Thesis: The Queerness of Pregnancy in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts |
Simone Pfleger (Alberta), Queer Intimacies in Christoph Hochhäusler’s I Am Guilty (2005)
Kimberly A. Williams (Mount Royal), ‘We All Thought They Were Sisters’: The Invisibly Visible Lesbians of Broadchurch |
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| 12.30-14.00
13.15-1400 14.00 . |
Lunch (Fellows’ Drawing Room)
Art Tour (New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College) Performance: Queer Memories I (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) Wanja Kimani (SOAS), Expectations |
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| 14.30 | Panel 6 | |
| Sound and Sense (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) | Sensing and Disability Studies (Buckingham House Seminar Room) | |
| Lloyd Whitesell (McGill), Mantles of Evil: Monstrosity as a Queer Aesthetic
Rachel Avery (McGill), A Queer Orientation to Pop: Song Form in the Music of Laura Nyro Jacob Mallinson Bird (Oxford), Haptic Aurality: Touching the Voice in Drag Lip-Sync Performance |
Benjamin Quarshie (Cambridge), Dedicated to the Kids on the Block: The Politics and Prosthetics of Glue in the Work of Pedro Lemebel and Victor Gaviria
Dávid Baqais (Central European University, Budapest), The Way He Looks: Tactility, Queerness and Blind Affect on Screen Renee Dumaresque (York University, Canada), Queering Pain(ful) Perception: Sonic Materialism and the Unfolding of Cripped Gender(s) |
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| 16.00 | Coffee (Buckingham House Foyer) | |
| 16.30 | Panel 7 (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre) Feeling Digitally Kiona Hagen Niehaus (Goldsmiths, University of London), Digital Tools, Experiential Walls: Normative Limitations in 3D Human Figure Creation Tools Lucas LaRochelle (Concordia), Queering the Map: Co-Creating an Archive of Queer Feeling |
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| 17.30 | Performance: Queer Memories II (Buckingham House Lecture Theatre)
Alexandra Tálamo (New South Wales), Bodies that Remember: Postmemorial Performance and the Choreographies of Transfer |
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| 18.00 | End of Conference | |
The Queer Art of Feeling 