The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies invites proposals for their second conference, "Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations." The conference will be a two-day series of conversations in race, ethnic, queer, sexuality, gender, and disability studies, attending to the affective and economic investments in and resistance to financial, sexual, cultural, legal, political, national, and global economies. Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief bio of no more than 100 words by November 1, 2013.
They invite papers which extend recent debates about homonationalism and "slow death" to consider the ways in which queer attachments to and resistance of capital, globalization, and the state trouble dominant notions of progress. They encourage presenters to consider the multitude of ways in which investments and attachments can be or have been made queerly: investment in communities, in institutions, in movements, in "the future," in citizenship, as well as time and monetary investments; and attachments to debt, relationships, dreams, contracts, medicine/medical interventions, to prosthetics, identities, to cultural and political obligations, to liberalism, radicalism, and so on.
They hope to create a vibrant space for intellectual exchange with an emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship. They welcome submissions from graduate students from a wide range of fields, including gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, American studies, geography, history, education, media and communication, sociology, and cultural studies, among others.
Suggested paper, panel or workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
Affect, attachments, and investments
Immigration, citizenship, and diaspora
Empire and colonialism
Labor: sexual, affective, activist, academic, etc.
Production and consumption of media, aesthetics, and culture
Race, place, and identity
The politics of idleness, unproductivity, and failure
Kinship, family, and coalition
Consumption, consumer culture, and tourism
Neoliberalism and biopolitics
-Industrial complexes: military, non-profit, prison, and medical
Disability and crip politics
Post-humanism, animality, and technoscience
Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief bio of no more than 100 words to queerattachments@gmail.com by NOVEMBER 1, 2013. Conference applicants will be notified by December 1.
TRAVEL GRANTS for presenters will be available, sponsored by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies. We will award up to three travel grants of up to $500 each. More details will be available upon acceptance to present.
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies (GIGSS) is a group of graduate students from all disciplines and all levels who are committed to creating new opportunities for interdisciplinary conversation and research in sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota.
The Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies, named for the late University of Minnesota alumnus, is dedicated to the advancement of GLBT scholarship across the University and in the broader Twin Cities community.
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