CfP: First International Interdisciplinary Queer Colloquium: Thinking “queerly” from/in Latin America (10/2012, Flacso/Ecuador); DL: 18.06.2012

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Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Web)

Time: 25-27 October 2012
Veneue: Flasco, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuardor
Deadline: 18.06.2012; Conference Website

This colloquium constitutes a space for locating the discussions of queerness in Latin American local/regional epistemologies, as well as in the North-South and South-South debates. Here, the concept of “region” operates not only in its geographical sense but also as a position of knowledge production, going beyond linear discussions about the possibility/impossibility of semantic translations of the term. By de-territorializing academic work, the colloquium calls for activists and artists to participate and encourages inter- and trans-disciplinary dialogues with social and artistic movements in a more inclusive and far-reaching theorization and intervention.

CENTRAL QUESTIONS:

Some (although not all) of the questions that guide this colloquium and frame the discussions we propose are:

  1. How is xenophobia related to sexualities and desire?
  2. How do sexualities and desire co-exist within a normative space not only as sexual difference but also as racial, class, or ethnic differences?
  3. How are (post)(neo)colonial histories embedded in the current normativities of gender, sexuality and desire?
  4. How does migration underline the intrinsic relationships between sexuality, race/ethnicity, class, and citizenship?
  5. How do feelings of belonging and membership reproduce or confront normative ideas about gender and sexuality?
  6. How does public space, its access and use, relate to sexuality and gender, as well as its intersections with other axes of power?
  7. What possible collaborations are opened up when the traditional limits among activism, art, and academia are contested?

CENTRAL THEMES:

  • Art, popular culture, and visual culture.
  • Bodily intertextualities and interseccionalities: those races, those classes, those sexes, those desires, those ages, those languages.
  • The re-writing of the histories of sexualities.
  • The relationships between the academia, activism, and art.
  • Exiles, migrations, and diasporas.
  • Sexual and gender diversities in contexts of violence
  • Genders, sexualities and sexual work
  • Public space and sexual/gendered citizenship.
  • Genders and sexualities from (post)(de)colonial perspectives.
  • Bridges between feminism, gender studies, and queer theories.
  • Political Economy and queer theories.
  • (Para)Legal Theories, proposals and experiences regarding the (dis)order of the law and the legal system.

ABSTRACTS FOR INDIVIDUAL OR PANEL PROPOSALS, FORUMS, CONVERSATIONS, WORKSHOPS:
Send us your abstracts to the colloquium email: coloquioqueerecuador@flacso.org.ec until Monday, June 18, 2012.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM: http://es-es.facebook.com/events/399019483449729/
AND at Flacso Ecuador website very soon….

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