AsiaPacifiQueer 2:
Media, Technology & Queer Cultures
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
3 - 4 December 2001
AsiaPacifiQueer (APQ) is an on-going collaboration between scholars who =
are researching queer cultures and peoples in post-colonial societies of =
the Asia-Pacific, as well as Africa and Latin America. The first APQ =
conference was held at the University of Technology Sydney in February =
2001. The second APQ meeting has been timed to follow on from the =
conference: Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries: Asian Diasporas =
and Identities in Australia and Beyond being held at the University of =
Queensland, Brisbane, on 1 and 2 December 2001 and those interested are =
welcome to attend both.
APQ2 will explore how individuals are constructed as gendered and sexed =
beings in contemporary mediascapes. The conference will focus on how =
media and communications technologies in postcolonial Asia-Pacific and =
other societies produce, govern, market, distribute, enable or exclude =
minority genders and sexualities in both the public and private spheres. =
Papers from all academic disciplines are welcome. Papers may explore =
postcolonial queer cultures through specific media such as print, film, =
television, and the Internet; discuss the influence of new technologies =
such as video recorders, webcams, mobile phones and pagers; or analyse =
the specificities of media, technological and cultural interaction in a =
given locale. Papers relating to the theme of 'diaspora' and the ways =
that media and communications technologies enable images and people to =
transgress the borders of race, nation, class, gender or culture are =
especially encouraged.
Please send 250-word abstracts by 1 July 2001 to:
Mark McLelland m.mclelland@mailbox.uq.edu.au at the Centre for Critical =
and Cultural Studies, the University of Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Further information about both conferences including registration =
details will be made available on the APQ website :
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/apq/apqhomepage.html.
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