[LCC] CFP: 120 Years of Homosexuality

[Ruby Blondell]

CALL FOR PAPERS
One Hundred and Twenty Years of Homosexuality
Lambda Classical Caucus Panel, American Philological Association
Anaheim, January 6-9, 2010
Organizers: Ruby Blondell (blondell at u.washington.edu) and Kirk Ormand 
(Kirk.Ormand at oberlin.edu)

The APA/AIA meeting in January 2010 will mark the twentieth anniversary 
of the Lambda Classical Caucus (founded at the APA in December 1989). 
This year will also mark the twentieth anniversary of a pair of 
enormously influential books: David Halperin's One Hundred Years of 
Homosexuality and Jack Winkler's Constraints of Desire. Published in the 
same year, in the same series (Routledge's New Ancient World), and often 
reviewed together, these two books introduced many classicists to queer 
theory for the first time and revolutionized the field of queer 
classics. If that were not enough, 1990 likewise saw the publication by 
Princeton of Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in 
the Ancient Greek World, edited by Halperin, Winkler, and Froma Zeitlin. 
David Halperin was also--not coincidentally--the founder of the Lambda 
Classical Caucus (for our history visit 
http://www.lambdacc.org/about.html).

This seems a good moment, then, to celebrate what we have achieved--both 
as an organization and as an intellectual movement--over the past 20 
years, and to look forward to what we may achieve in the next 20, by 
asking where we have come from, what we have accomplished, and what 
still remains to be done. While celebrating the past, and the path that 
brought us here, we also want to consider where we stand now, and how 
best to go forward. Which methodological tools are still proving useful, 
which need to be reassessed or sharpened, and which have had their day? 
What avenues of inquiry, theoretical models, or forms of evidence, have 
been overlooked or come into recent prominence? How have social and 
political developments, within or beyond the academy, reconfigured the 
world of queer classics, its constraints or opportunities, since 1980?

While we are especially interested in the methods and concerns of 
Halperin and Winkler (comparative anthropology, the application of queer 
theory to classics, Foucault's formulation of "sexuality" as a 
peculiarly modern form of knowledge, the articulation of pre-modern 
sexual identities), and their influence upon the field, we are open to 
submissions exploring any aspect of the current state and future 
directions of queer classics. Abstracts might address such topics as our 
understanding of "active" and "passive" roles in Greece and Rome, 
ancient notions of sexual subjectivity, categories of sexual behavior, 
shame and honor, the practice of paederasty, the intersection(s) of 
gender and sexual identity, questions of evidence, and/or the 
periodicity of particular sexual categories, values, or identities. In 
keeping with Lambda traditions, we welcome submissions that deal with 
material culture as well as those focussing on texts and/or other forms 
of evidence.

Abstracts should be sent as Word attachments to Joy Connolly 
(joyc at nyu.edu) by February 5, 2009. (Do not send them to the 
organizers.) Personal identifying information should not appear on the 
abstract itself. Abstracts should be no more than one page and should 
follow the instructions for individual abstracts on p. 6 of the APA 
Program Guide at http://www.apaclassics.org/Newsletter/2007newsletter/100