UPDATE: Gender Difference and Queer Counter-Knowledges (11/1/04; 3/31/05-4/3/05)

UPDATE: CALL FOR PAPERS: Gender Difference and Queer Counter-Knowledges

2005 GLBTQ Studies Conference at the University of North Carolina
Asheville
March 31-April 3, 2005, Asheville, NC
Keynote Speaker Judith Halberstam

*In response to Judith Halberstam's keynote topic, we are inviting
papers on the general theme of queer counter-knowledges (ignorance,
distraction, forgetting, etc.)*

The UNCA glbtq conference is dedicated to the investigation of genders
and sexualities. This year, we invite submissions on the theme of gender
resistance and queer counter-knowledges. Elaborations on this theme
might include:

* queer epistemologies
* queer representations, expressions and cultures
* insider/outsider status in queer communities
* gender roles and identity politics
* queer activism
* same-sex marriage
* intersections of race, disability, and/or class
* queer pedagogy, curriculum and campus activism

We welcome a range of approaches and participants, including faculty,
graduate, and undergraduate students. All formats will be considered,
including paper presentations (15-20 minutes), panels, workshops,
exhibitions and performances. Panels will consist of 3 or 4 papers.

Panel proposals & paper abstracts due November 1, 2004

Costs:
Early Registration ($60 faculty, $50 graduate students, $35
undergraduate students) due January 31, 2005. Full registration ($70
faculty, $60 graduate students, $45 undergraduate students) payable at
time of conference.

Email or snailmail individual abstract (500 words) and panel proposals
(700 words) to:

Marcia Ghidina, ghidina_at_unca.edu
Dept. of Sociology, CPO# 1930
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804-8508
828-251-6975

or

Lorena Russell
CPO #2130, Karpen Hall
Dept. of Literature & Language
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Asheville, North Carolina 28804
lrussell_at_unca.edu --- 828-251-6594

Judith Halberstam, a leading scholar of gender and sexuality studies, is

a Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her
writings include Posthuman Bodies (1995, co-editor with Ira Livingston);

Female Masculinity (1998); The Drag King Book (1999, co-author with
LaGrace Volcano), and the forthcoming The Transgender Moment: Gender
Flexibility and the Postmodern Condition (2004).

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Lorena Russell, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Literature and Language
Univ. of North Carolina Asheville
lrussell_at_unca.edu -- 828-251-6594
http://www.unca.edu/~lrussell/
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