PROGRAMME | Queer Epistemicides

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PROGRAMME

Thursday 29 April

12.30- 14.00

14.00-14.15

14.15-15.15

15.15-15.30

15.30-16.30

16.30-17:00

17.00-18.30

Friday 30 April

12.30-13.30

13.30-13.45

13.45-15.15

15.15-15.30

15.30-16.00

16.00-1615

16.15-17.15

17.15-17.30

17.30-18.30

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Roundtable on Queer Studies and Modern Languages in the UK and Ireland

Eamon McCarthy (Glasgow): Cruising Buenos Aires: Queer Subjectivities in Alejandro Modarelli’s ‘El amargo retiro de la Betty Boop’

Polly Galis (Bristol), Maria Tomlinson (Sheffield), and Antonia Wimbush (Liverpool): Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture

Clare Geraghty (UCC): Queer Feminist Hip Hop: Intersectional Beings and Afro-Cuban Flavors

Sarah Simpson (Edinburgh): Breaking the Taboo: Abusive Lesbian Relationships in the Work of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

Denise Henschel (Cambridge): Antigone’s Place: Queer Diasporic Epistemologies of Kinship in Contemporary German Culture

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Gourab Ghosh (JNU) and Swati Moitra (Gurudas College): Brave New World: Problematising ‘Queer’ in Post-Section 377 India

Ewa Majewska (Warsaw): Homophobia as a state of exception in Poland. Discrimination, resistance and care.

Dmitrii Tolkachev (Moscow): Were There Any Changes?: New Russian Constitution as an Example of Queer Institutionalism

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Emanuele Broccio (Franche Comté): From Forgotten Literature to Queer Theory in Italy: A Possible Way for a New Definition?

Serena Bassi (Yale) : Against anglonormative objects: Queer translingual poetics in Nino Gennaro’s protest poetry

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Keynote Dagmawi Woubshet (Pennsylvania)

The Right to Black Queer Life

Bastien Bomans (Liège): Imagining Queer Futures: Postcolonial Utopias of Desires in Trinidadian Writing

Müge Özoğlu (Lund): Historically Contingent Sexualities in Order: Reşad Ekrem Koçu’s İstanbul Ansiklopedisi

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Blase A. Provitola (Hartford): Queer Domestications of Gender Fluidity in Nina Bouraoui’s Tomboy

Kaustav Bakshi (Jadavpur): Making Sense of Queerness Before the Advent of Theory: Syed Mustafa Siraj’s Maya Mridanga and its Commonsensical Philosophy of Sexuality

Paulina Pająk (Wroclaw): Forgotten Sapphic Myths of Polish Modernism

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Carmen Dell’Aversano (Pisa) and Florian Mussgnug (UCL): Parenthood, Climate Justice, and the Ethics of Care: Notes Towards a Queer Analysis

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Julia Heim (Pennsylvania) The Queerness of Our Wild Selves: Ivan Cotroneo's queering of Italian TV

Manuel Zaniboni (Verona) Italianness and Heteronormativity in Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman / Luca Guadagnino

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Dimitris Papanikolaou (Oxford): Remaining Critically Queer; and Being Haunted

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