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Queer
London Conference
Saturday 23rd March, 2013
Department of English,
Linguistics and
Cultural Studies,
University of Westminster, London, UK
Keynote
Speaker: Dr. Matt Cook (Birkbeck College,
University of London)
This one-day conference is dedicated to a
consideration of London and its role in creating, housing, reflecting and
facilitating queer life. It aims to bring together scholars from a variety of
different disciplines and backgrounds to consider representations of queer
London and how London itself represents queers.
That London is a focus and centre for queer
life and culture can be seen on its stages; in its bar and club scenes; in its
film festivals and its representations in film; in its performance art; in its
political life; in its gyms; in its history; in its book groups and book shops;
and in its representations in the contemporary queer fiction of writers like
Alan Hollinghurst and Sarah Waters. That London is a hub and an axis goes
without saying. What the ‘Queer London’ conference aims to do then is to offer
an opportunity for further analysis and investigation of these
representations/representational platforms and to consider the socio-cultural
role that London plays in queer life.
The conference will focus on the period
1885 to the present and welcomes interdisciplinary proposals and those from a
wide range of disciplines, including: Literature, History, Art, Cultural
Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies. Potential topics might include, but
are not limited to:
- Mapping queer London
- Lesbian Londons
- Queers of colour and London
- Queer modernisms
- Queer institutions and structures
- Literary representations of queer London
- Films of queer London
- Queer drama and performance in/on London
- Queer histories of London
- London’s queer temporalities
- Queer flâneurie
- London’s AIDS narratives
- Queer urban subcultures
- London’s queer festivals
- Queer sex workers
- London’s queer activism
- Heterosexual and homosexual London, meeting points and overlaps
Please send abstracts of 500 words, or proposals for panels of three linked papers, by Friday 30th November 2012 to
Dr. Simon Avery and Dr. Katherine M. Graham at the University of Westminster.
Abstracts should be sent as Word attachments to s.avery@westminster.ac.uk
and k.graham1@westminster.ac.uk,
and should include details of your current affiliation and a very short author
bio.
Conference
blog page: http://queerlondonconf.wordpress.com/
