[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Queering Migrations on Screen (UK) (5/15/06; 10/13/06)

[Nazan Haydari]

_‘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@bris.ac.uk <mailto:d.e.duncan@bris.ac.uk>

Dimitris Papanikolaou, Sub-Faculty of Modern Greek,
Oxford University 
dimitris.papanikolaou@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk 
<mailto:dimitris.papanikolaou@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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