CfP: Rated Queer: Deconstructing Narratives of Age (Event: 04/2013, Frankfurt); DL: 20.12.2012

Organisation: Linda Hess, Nina Holst and Anika Ullman

Time: 05.-06.04.2013
Venue: Frankfurt
Deadline: 20.12.2012, CfP als PDF

Those who are too old and those who are too young are often excluded from academic discourses on subjectivity. The subject appears to be ageless, but implicitly is always ofage and not yet retired. When, for instance, Gender Studies question the heteronormativity of a social practice, they (often) omit that their analyses concentrate on a specific age group. Recently, Queer Studies have begun to question this omission, in order to bring the relationship the subject has with to its own (life)time into focus. … read more (PDF)

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