{"id":11,"date":"2016-06-20T19:19:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cirque.unipi.it\/2017conference\/?p=11"},"modified":"2017-02-06T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:55:11","slug":"first-cirque-conference-laquila-march-30-april-2-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cirque.unipi.it\/2017conference\/2016\/06\/20\/first-cirque-conference-laquila-march-30-april-2-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"First CIRQUE Conference, L’Aquila, March 31\u2013 April 2, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

First CIRQUE (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Queer) Conference:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s New in Queer Studies?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

L\u2019Aquila, March 31\u2013April 2, 2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0A PDF version of this Call for papers is available here:\u00a0<\/strong>CIRQUE Conference Call for Papers L’Aquila March 2017<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the late 1980s, theorists such as Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Teresa De Lauretis questioned and redefined existing discourses on identity, gender and sexuality, and called for new critical engagements in order to challenge the supposedly \u2018natural\u2019 and stable correspondence between sex, gender and desire. This resulted in the creation of the hybrid epistemic field of queer studies, which has led in turn to multiple, evolving theoretical recodifications and deconstructions of supposedly fixed and coherent identity categories.<\/p>\n

The intersections of sex\/sexuality studies, gender studies, and queer theories have productively influenced and stimulated reflection within and across many disciplines.\u00a0Explorations of the embodied sexed\/gendered\/queer self have enabled critics to interrogate and deconstruct the methodological and epistemic foundations (as well as the tacit assumptions and colonizing grasp) of such disciplines. The production of knowledge has thus been shown to inhere in operations of power, which both authorize and constitute legitimate subjects and objects, at all levels of practice and discourse. These critical explorations have called into question Western modernity\u2019s disciplinary regime itself, both as biopolitics \u2013 in its need of calculable and identifiable bodies \u2013 and, increasingly, beyond it, as bodies are molecularized into digits and data bundles, materialized only when in a state of flux, refigured as transformable.<\/p>\n

Moreover, queer has shown its usefulness as an analytic and political category well beyond the questioning of sex and gender. At the\u00a0most abstract, and at the same time most concrete level, it allows\u00a0us to interrogate in the most radical way the categories through which every society\u00a0determines the destiny of its members, and to dismantle the machinery of domination\u00a0and exclusion which is implicit in them and which is deployed through them. Accordingly, the first conference organised by CIRQUE\u2013 Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Queer (Inter-University Centre for Queer Research \u2013 www.cirque.unipi.it) wishes to engage with critical debates on queer issues in a variety of fields and encourages both analytical readings and practice-based workshops spanning all disciplines.<\/p>\n

As well as an opportunity for global, multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary reflections on queer issues, defined in the broadest and most inclusive terms, the conference aims to queer the very modalities through which knowledge and cultural practices are articulated, shared, discussed and validated within and beyond the academic environment. One important aspect of this is that sessions will not be organized as presentations but as discussions: the full text of all contributions will be made available in advance, so that the contact time between presenters and audience will be devoted to a group discussion in order to maximize audience engagement and participation. All presenters will have the option to submit a revised version of their papers to Whatever<\/em>, the peer-reviewed, open access, international online journal of CIRQUE; one of the aims of this format is to help strengthen their arguments with a view to subsequent publication. The relevant issue of Whatever<\/em> will be published by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n

Confirmed keynote speakers: Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne\/Sam Bourcier (Universit\u00e8 Lille III, France), Laura Corradi (Universit\u00e0 della Calabria, Italy) Carmen Dell\u2019Aversano (Universit\u00e0 di Pisa, Italy), Massimo Fusillo (Universit\u00e0 dell\u2019Aquila, Italy), Marco Pustianaz (Universit\u00e0 del Piemonte Orientale, Italy), William Spurlin (Brunel University, United Kingdom).<\/p>\n

We welcome intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches and invite proposals for papers, panels, round-table sessions, thematic workshops, performances and other queerings of formats on topics including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n