1st International CCCU Queer Studies Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

1st International CCCU Queer Studies Conference

Queering Paradigms

Canterbury Christ Church University, U.K.

27-28 February 2009

Key note speaker:

Robert Mills (King's College, London): Adventures in the Queer Museum

Conference Aim

The aim of this conference is to look at the status quo and the challenges
in the future of Queer Studies from a broad multi-, trans-disciplinary and
polythetic angle.

Participants will present papers and panels from the whole spectrum of
academia.

Queer Studies

The definition for 'queer' adopted for this purpose is not restricted to
LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender), but holistic along the lines
of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's definition in her essay "Queer and Now":

That's one of the things that 'queer' can refer to: the open mesh of
possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and
excesses of meaning when constituent elements of anyone's gender, of
anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.

In contemporary Western society, we can approach 'queerness' as querying,
contrasting, challenging and transforming hetero-normativity.

Call For Papers

Papers and Panel proposals are invited on any area and aspect of Queer
Studies.

The proposals will undergo a peer-review process; the Proceedings of this
conference will be prepared for peer-reviewed publication with a major
Academic Press.

Proposal abstract deadline:                               1 September
2008

Deadline for completed papers:                          2 January
2009

Proposals for individual papers should take the form of abstracts of not
more than 400 words; panel proposals should include both a panel rationale
and paper abstracts.

All proposals should be sent by email before September, 1st 2008 to

Dr Burkhard Scherer (Theology & RS, CCCU); burkhard.scherer@canterbury.ac.uk
<mailto:burkhard.scherer@canterbury.ac.uk> )