University of Brighton Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender in conjunction with feminist scholars from University College Dublin and Maynooth University
Venue: University of Brighton, UK
Time: 15-16 March 2019
Proposals by: 17th December 2018
The organisers of this two-day international and interdisciplinary conference welcome proposals from academics, scholars, students, activists, documentary and film-makers, writers and artists. The Lesbian Lives Conference is not just the world’s only annual academic conference in Lesbian Studies, it is a large international event that draws speakers and participants from all continents and hosts the best-known as well as emerging scholars in the field. In the past we have hosted Emma Donoghue, Jackie Kay, Joan Nestle, Sarah Schulman, Cherry Smyth, Del La Grace Volcano, Sarah Waters, Campbell X and academics such as Sara Ahmed, Terry Castle, Laura Doan, Lisa Downing, Lillian Faderman, Sarah Franklin, Claire Hemmings, Alison Hennegan, Sally R. Munt, Helena Whitbread, Bonnie Zimmerman among many others.
Moving beyond the notion of the politics of visibility as meaning only the politics of being ‚out‘ or being about erasure from cultural representation, the conference seeks to Continue reading