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Mind the Gap 2023: Disrupting Divisions
29th July 2023 @ 9:00 am - 30th July 2023 @ 8:30 pm
Saturday 29 July – Online (Birkbeck, University of London)
09.00-09.15 Registration + Welcome
09.15-10.30 Keynote Talk TBC + Q&A
10.30-10.45 Comfort Break
10.45-12.00 LGBTQ+ Human Rights: Centering Migration, Conflict, and Solidarity
“Queer Protection: (En)countering Protection Strategies in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp” – Gabriel/le du Plessix (University of Warwick)
“When I Think of You, My Homeland, My Heart Can Only Cry”: Exploring Queer Ukrainian Migrants’ Diasporic Consciousness and Physical Engagements with Ukrainian Diaspora Communities” – Freya Proudman (University College London)
TBC
12.00-12.15 Comfort Break
12.15-13.30 Celebrating Trans Power: Resistance and Care
“Transgender Resistance on the Digital Dancefloor: Counteracting ‘Anti-Trans’ Narratives and Violent Data Politics by Imagining a Digital Transgender Epistemology” – Christoffer Koch Andersen (University of Cambridge)
“Care In/And Community: Supporting Trans Young Artists at American Opera Companies” – Danielle Buonaiuto (City University of New York)
TBC
13.30-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-15.45 Educating Queerly: What We Can Learn from LGBTQ+ Learning
“Queer(y)ing STEM Education Spaces: A Poetic Retrospective Autoethnography of a Queer Student’s Lived Experiences in Australian Postsecondary Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education – Phil Kairns (Monash University)
“School Librarians and LGBT+ Students” – Bérengère Stassin (Université de Lorraine)
“Queerly Joyful Practices in Calgary, Alberta’s Public Schools” – Sarah Beech (University of Calgary)
15.45-16.00 Comfort Break
16.00-17.15 Viral Considerations: Rethinking Health and Community
“Like a Virus: Tactile Kinship in Queer Performance Art” – Abhisek Pal (Jadavpur University)
“Queer/Crip Killjoys, Oracles, and the ‘Post-Pandemic’ Stage of COVID-19″ – Moira Armstrong (Birkbeck, University of London)
”What’s in a Word: Mpox, Monkeypox and the Language We Need to Destigmatize LGBTQ+ People Experiencing Illness” – Andrew Kaye Kauffmann (Community/Activist Speaker)
17.15-17.30 Comfort Break
17.30-18.45 Being Political: Queer Understandings of Ethics, Solidarity, and Justice
“The Ethics of Outing” – Samantha Leyerle (City University of New York)
“Queer Futures and Intergenerational Solidarity in Spain” – Angela Acosta (Davidson College)
“Disrupting Cissexual Difference and Cisgendered Embodiment: A Transfeminist Analysis of Elizabeth Grosz’s Incorporeal Ontoethics” – İlkan Can İpekçi (Sabancı Üniversitesi)
18.45-19.00 Close for the Day
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Sunday 30 July – In-Person (King’s College London)
10.30-10.45 Registration + Welcome
10.45-12.00 Authentically LGBTQ+ Online: Self-Expression on Digital Media
“Instagram Representation of Hijra Identities from Bangladesh” – Tanvir Alim (University of Glasgow)
“Repression, Resistance and Revolution: The Politics of International Queer Communication in Southeast Asia” – Russell Yap (Nanyang Technological University)
“Decolonising Cyberqueer Spaces: Assertions and Negotiations in Indian Online Communities” – Tanvi Kanchan (SOAS, University of London)
12.00-12.15 Comfort Break
12.15-13.45 Disruptive Representation?: Popular Queer Constructions and Challenges in Literature, Film, and TV
“Pirates, Interrupted: Embodying Queer (Dis)comfort and Failure in Our Flag Means Death” – Andreea Moise (Universitatea din București)
“Queer Translation in Lilting” – Cheng-Chai Chiang (University of California, Berkeley)
“Mad Wilderness: An EcoGothic Reading of the ‘Crazy Lesbian’ Trope in Machado’s The Resident – Tara Labovich (Independent Scholar)
TBC
13.45-15.00 Lunch Break
15.00-16.15 Finding (Safe) Spaces: Navigating and Queering Cityscapes
“Mapping Urban Indian Queer Spaces as Sites of Resistance against Capitalist Notions of Development” – Udhriti Sarkar (SOAS, University of London)
“Queer Liberation and Collective Effervescence: The Everyday Utopias of Anti-Racist Sexual Cultures” – Tiago Machado Costa (University of Nottingham)
“Disrupting Understandings of Safe Spaces for Singaporean Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (GBQ+) Men: Creating or Engaging with Invisibilised Spaces to Remain Safe” – RainbowAsia (Community/Activist Speaker)
16.15-16.30 Comfort Break
16.30-17.45 How To Parent: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Raising Children
“Navigating Time and Relationships: Gay Men’s Transnational Reproductive Journey towards Fatherhood – Jung Chen (University of Cambridge)
“Transgressing and Disrupting Boundaries and Binaries: Exploring the Experiences of Bisexual+ Mothers in Queer and Non-Queer Parenting Spaces” – Ellen Davenport-Pleasance (University College London)
My Surrogacy Journey (Community/Activist Speaker)
17.45-18.00 Closing Statement
18.00-18.30 Disruptive Keynote TBC
18.30-20.30 Reception
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