>***Please post this announcement on appropriate lists and forward it to
>individuals you think may be interested.***
>
>CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>THE FUTURE OF THE QUEER PAST:
>A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY CONFERENCE
>
>The University of Chicago, September 14-17, 2000
>Organized by the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project of the Center for
>Gender Studies and the Department of History of the University of Chicago,
>with the assistance of an external advisory committee.
>THE FUTURE OF THE QUEER PAST, an international meeting of historians and
>other scholars studying historical processes from diverse disciplinary
>perspectives, will be held at the University of Chicago on
>Thursday-Sunday, September 14-17, 2000. Faculty, graduate students,
>artists, curators, and independent scholars studying a wide range of
>issues throughout the world and across history are expected to
>participate.
>
>The conference offers historians, other interested scholars, and artists
>a rare and critically important opportunity to meet one another and to
>collectively chart the development of the field, assess its strengths
>and weaknesses, and explore new directions for its future.
>The conference's transnational thematic organization also encourages
>historians to reassess the periodizations and explanatory frameworks
>they have developed for particular periods and national histories by
>placing them in a broader historical and transnational context, as well
>as to track and explore the ramifications of the transnational
>circulation of people, discourses, and social movements, and to compare
>developments in different localities and explore the connections among
>them.
>
>We also intend to make the performance and critical analysis of creative
>interventions into popular historical memory a central part of the
>conference, and to bring scholars and artists concerned with historical
>issues into conversation with one another.
>We invite proposals for papers and panels that examine particular case
>studies and phenomena (especially in innovative juxtapositions), propose
>new conceptual frameworks or periodizations, reflect on
>historiographical and theoretical issues in the field, or rethink
>conventional historical narratives from a queer perspective. We also
>invite filmmakers, curators, and other artists working on historical
>themes to present or reflect on their work. Proposals for panels
>(consisting of three papers and a commentary) are encouraged, but
>individual paper and performance proposals will receive equal
>consideration.
>
>The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2000, and the program will be
>announced by May 15. Subsidized airfares and housing may be available to
>a limited number of artists, graduate students, and foreign
>participants, but since our funds are extremely limited most
>participants should not expect such subsidies. A more detailed call for
>proposals, additional information about the conference, and procedures
>for submitting proposals are available on the Lesbian and Gay Studies
>Project website: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cgs/lgsp.html
>
>
>You may also direct inquiries to
>The Lesbian and Gay Studies Project
>History Conference
>The University of Chicago
>5835 S. Kimbark
>Chicago IL 60637, USA
>
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