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Time: October 14-15, 2011 
Deadline for abstract: May 13, 2011 

This year’s conference will explore and exploit issues of fashion, queerly construed. We wish to invite a wide range of questions and panels on subject topics as drag, female masculinities, male femininities, queer making and self-fashioning, cloning and styling, and, of course, the culture and politics of the fashion industry itself.  Questions of class, economics, history, ethnicity, race, (im)migration, geography, exploitation, and sublimation are at the forefront of our query.  We seek to know what might be a new analytic or interdisciplinary methodology through which to attend to multiple registers of fashion.
 
Proposals for individual papers should take the form of abstracts; panel proposals should also include both a list of participants and paper abstracts.  CVs must accompany all abstracts.  Submissions from undergraduates should be accompanied by a brief letter from a faculty member highlighting the strengths of both the student and the student’s proposal.
 
Send abstracts and CVs to lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu (Contact: Catharine McGraw).

Keynote Speakers: 
Jack Halberstam, Monica Miller, Mignon R. Moore, Karen Tongson, and Deborah R. Vargas

Closing Performance: 
“Queerture: A night of rocket science and fashion design” with artistic director Tania Hammidi