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_�Queering Migrations on Screen�_
A one-day conference, to be held at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
*Date: **Friday 13 October 2006***
The aim of this conference is to look at the phenomenon of migration in a range of national cinemas from the perspective of queer theory.
The idea behind the project is that constructions of identity are mobile, but don�t necessarily travel well. The process of migration cuts across national spaces. It also impacts on formations of gender and sexuality that consolidate or contest the nation. Queer theory may prove useful in charting this process because it is attentive to the mechanisms through which identities are produced and questions rather than relies on normative categories of gender and sexuality. The effects of the experience of migration are political in that they raise issues to do with racism, citizenship, cultural integration and assimilation. Yet the representation of that experience also impacts on the taxonomies of national and gender identity that cinema has been said to consolidate. The question is whether, and how, film can offer ways of undoing dominant modes of representation and spectatorship as it charts movements across and between spaces and identities.
Submissions are invited from (but not limited to) the fields of Film Studies, Queer Theory, Migration and Cultural Studies; interdisciplinary methodological perspectives that diversify the understanding of the subject area are especially encouraged. Papers on other visual media, especially television and video art are also welcome. We aim to publish a selection of papers from the conference either as an edited volume or as a special issue of a journal.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *15 May 2006*
Please email proposals (200 words) along with a short C.V. simultaneously to:
Derek Duncan, Department of Italian, University of Bristol d.e.duncan_at_bris. ac.uk <mailto:d.e.duncan_at_bris. ac.uk>
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Sub-Faculty of Modern Greek, Oxford University dimitris.papanikolaou_at_mod-langs. ox.ac.uk <mailto:dimitris.papanikolaou_at_mod-langs. ox.ac.uk>
-- Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou University Lecturer in Modern Greek and Fellow of St.Cross College Oxford University 47, Wellington Square Oxford, OX1 2JF tel. 01865 270482
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