Organized by the LGBT Studies Program & Minor, Chancellor’s Leadership Project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

Date: 3-5 July 2011 (Note: Gay Pride in Madrid is on 2nd July)
Venu: Madrid, Spain
Deadline for papers: 15 December 2010
Please submit your proposal electronically via conference website

We invite scholars and activists to join in an exploration of the methods, possibilities, challenges, and dangers of doing LGBT/queer  scholarship, activism, pedagogy, and curriculum in a transnationalized and technologically mediated world. We want to address the many challenges of understanding and responding to the complexly lived lives of queer subjects, as they are shaped by local and global upheavals and opportunities. What does the ‘transnational’ mean? How are queer lives rendered visible and legible and affectively accessible? What matrices of power make  some queer figures more visible than others? What new forms of scholarship and activism emerge as people, images, ideas, and capital move in rapid, uneven, and complex ways across national borders? How might practices of kinships, however tense or contingent, happen? How does, or should, the transnational turn shape our pedagogies and curricula? And how do we connect and collaborate as scholars and activists across the globe? These are messy knowledges, nuanced knowledges, framed by the local and the global in complicated and often surprising ways.

We are interested in a truly global conversation, and encourage submissions about and from all over the world. We hope too to produce some form of publication out of the conference.

Possible topics:
 >  Representing the complexities of everyday queer lives
 >  Working with queer archives and memory
 >  Analyzing gay imperialism
 >  Designing pedagogies and curricula
 >  Sustaining scholarly relationships across borders
 >  Engaging with queer suffering and activism across borders
 >  Studying legal and political responses to queer suffering
 >  Queer media and literature
 >  Exploring queer diasporas and homonationalisms
 >  Writing queer histories
 >  Analyzing queer labor and immigration
 >  Responding to the challenges of translation and access

We invite scholars and activists to submit paper proposals (no more than 500 words) or complete panels (of no more than three papers) that address questions like these from various perspectives. English is the primary language of the conference, and we will accept submissions in Spanish and French. 
 
Please feel free to contact Margaret Himley (mrhimley@syr.edu) or Andrew London (anlondon@maxwell.syr.edu), co-directors of the LGBT Studies Program and Minor at Syracuse University, for more information or with thoughts or questions about this conference/workshop.