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Subject: 	FW: Call for Papers: Doing Queer Studies Now
Date: 	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:22:14 -0400
From: 	Halperin, David <halperin at umich.edu>



Call for Papers

*– Doing Queer Studies Now –** *

Graduate Conference

*University of Michigan – Ann Arbor*

*October 21-23, 2010*

*Confirmed Speakers*: Paul Amar (Political Science, UC-Santa Barbara),
Adam Green (Sociology, U. of Toronto), Joon Lee (English, Rhode Island
School of Design), Heather Love (English, U. of Pennsylvania).

What is queer about queer studies? Does queer refer to a set of topics
or a mode of inquiry? What is the role of theory in queer studies? How
is new scholarship bridging the social sciences and the humanities? What
is the relationship between actual queer practices and queer studies?
What is the relationship between scholarship and activism? How are
radical sex critique and queer studies related? What are the limitations
of queer?

These are some of the questions we are interested in twenty years after
the emergence of queer theory. The purpose of this conference is to take
stock of and provide a showcase for innovative practices and pursuits in
queer studies, both in the humanities and social sciences, as well as
emerging fields that bridge the two.

*We are not calling for papers that engage these questions at a
meta-level, but rather for work that is conditioned by them.*

While we welcome a range of topics, some of the topics we are interested
in include:

-       the role of historical, political and economic forces in shaping
queerness

-       governmentality, state and biopolitics

-       transnational flows of capital and migrations

-       queer intersections with race, gender, class, ability, age, etc.

-       queer subjectivities, experiences and identities

-       queer historiography, phenomenology and temporality

-       visual culture, new media

Paper abstracts of 250 to 300 words should be sent by June 1, 2010 to
_doingqueerstudiesnow2010 at umich.edu
<mailto:doingqueerstudiesnow2010 at umich.edu>_. We wish to notify
presenters by Monday, June 21. We will ask for the completed paper for
respondents by October 1, 2010.