1st Annual South American Conference for Critical Animal Studies
Friday August 10, 2012
Chile

TEMA: “Hablar sobre Animales, Teoría y Activismo”

La invitación es la siguiente: se acoge a todo/a aquel que quiera hablar lo que quiera sobre animales. La consigna es arriesgada, pero con justa razón.
Los estudios críticos de animales son el primer campo académico de estudio dedicado a la abolición de la explotación animal y ecológica, de la opresión, apropiación y la dominación. Está basado en un movimiento amplio, global, emancipatorio e inclusivo, que persigue la liberación total y la libertad ante dicha opresión.
Nos interesa llamar la atención sobre las nuevas y viejas formas de pensar al animal (en las diversas maneras que toma la etiqueta de lo animal), que a lo largo de la historia, han terminado identificándolo, o bien con un homólogo fantasioso del humano, o bien una máquina de reflejos.
En ese sentido, un problema con que se encuentran los estudios críticos animales en general es aquél que lidia con la dificultad de encontrar la forma de cómo hablar justamente al/del/sobre-el animal. ¿Qué es un animal? ¿De qué hablamos, de qué queremos hablar, cuando hablamos de animales?
Es preciso buscar -como si fuera posible- una forma de hablar de los animales de manera alternativa a lo hecho corrientemente, en referencia a cómo hablamos de nosotros mismos, obligándonos así a repensar, no sólo al animal y la relación de éste con el ser humano, sino incluso la propia condición humana en general, que es en sí mismo un trabajo harto-urgente y necesario. Y desde esa nueva conceptualización que es tan enigmática todavía, buscar una nueva normativa. No se trata de borrar las diferencias, ni de desplazarlas; se trata de reconocerlas y convivir con ellas.

Es en esa reflexión, que la invitación no es a estudiar, viviseccionar, analizar al animal, sino hablar de él, conversar, desde nuestras distintas posturas cotidianas y áreas de conocimiento. Sea quizás la mejor manera de conocer un animal sin ponerle rejas o correas.
Por cierto, hay una total falta de presencia (salvo raras excepciones) de estas problemáticas de estudio en los programas de cualquier disciplina enseñada a nivel universitario. Los estudios críticos animales en sudamérica prácticamente no existen, y será también necesario reflexionar sobre eso.
¿Cómo puede pensarse en derechos animales en un continente que con justa razón se preocupa tan animadamente sobre los derechos humanos?
¿Hay algo en nuestra calidad de colonizados, de latinos, que es tocado por la dimensión subversiva que los estudios críticos mantienen en tanto estudio de una minoría oprimida?
Se trata, entonces, de comenzar a promover mediante las estrategias enunciadas la necesidad de llevar adelante estos estudios. Los estudios críticos animales asumen, aquí y ahora, la tarea de llamar la atención sobre la ausencia de estas reflexiones y problemáticas en la situación académica latinoamericana.
Bienvenidos,

ICAS Sudamérica.

*Fecha y dirección del evento están por confirmarse.

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ICAS Satellite Event at Minding Animals 2

This event is FREE and attendance at Minding Animals is not a pre-requisite. However please register for the event by sending an e-mail to mindinganimals@gmail.com because space is limited.

MAI would like to announce that the Institute for Critical Animal Studies will be holding a special Critical Animal Studies roundtable between 2:30pm and 5:30pm on 3 July in Utrecht before the Opening Reception to Minding Animals 2. A lunchtime roundtable will also follow during the main conference. Places are strictly limited to 100 people, so you MUST register your attendance – first come, first served. If you would like to register for this event, please send an email to mindinganimals@gmail.com Venue details and an agenda for this Special Event will be sent to all registrants before the Utrecht conference.

The founding of the Institute of Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) in 2001 helped to consolidate and give a name to diverse scholarly voices advocating a new ethical and social relationship between Homo sapiens and the other animal species.  Grounded in normative opposition to human domination and oppression of other animals, the field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS) has developed into a multi- and cross-disciplinary field combining animal liberation activism and serious scholarship.  In cooperation with Minding Animals, ICAS invites participation in its afternoon Satellite Symposium on July 3.  The event will delineate possible future trajectories for CAS internationally.

As the early 21st century unfolds, thousands of other species are imperilled, while billions of individual animals suffer and die in countless animal industries dispersed throughout the globe.  Given this urgent context, what is the best way for international scholars in Critical Animal Studies to work together to maximise our impact as engaged intellectuals, both within our respective disciplines and across disciplines?  Conversely, what are some of the constraints acting against the growth of Critical Animal Studies?  Interested parties are encouraged to submit abstracts for a short discussion paper (15 minute presentation) based on one of the following two broad themes:

1. Strategy and Collaboration.  What areas of thematic convergence or shared emphasis might we identify, to ensure that the whole of our efforts is somehow more than the sum of our many parts?  What specific interventions or campaigns might we as intellectuals commit ourselves to in the near term, in order to impact knowledge production at the national and international levels?  How might we strengthen collaborative efforts across national borders?  How might our encounters across disciplines (and national cultures) generate new collaborative projects, actions, concepts, strategies, and theories?  How can they mobilise productive sites and forms of resistance and innovation against diverse manifestations of animal oppression?

2. The Future of CAS within the Disciplines.  As we look toward the future of CAS from our own individual disciplinary locations, what opportunities and challenges do we see for expanding the influence of CAS within those disciplines?  What should the relationship be between CAS and mainstream animal studies?  What would a more effective CAS political science, CAS economics, CAS literature, CAS geography, CAS sociology, CAS education, and so on, look like?  What priorities might we set for these CAS disciplinary ‘subfields’ do?  What should be their specific powers and effects?

The session will be devoted to a discussion of the Symposium themes, with the aim of reaching consensus on new directions for Critical Animal Studies.  Everyone is welcome to attend, but you will need to pre-register by emailing mindinganimals@gmail.com .  Papers, however, will primarily be solicited by personal invitation of the organisers.  However, interested scholars who have a strong wish to present should feel free to send a paper or paper abstract directly to the Symposium organiser, John Sanbonmatsu ( js@wpi.edu ), for consideration (no later than June 10).

Special note: the discussion will continue during a special lunchtime roundtable during the Minding Animals conference (date to be announced).  Participants need not plan to attend the Minding Animals conference in order to participate in the ICAS Symposium; however, you will need to be a Minding Animals delegate to attend the lunchtime roundtable.

To be kept informed of developments regarding the 2012 conference, please email your details (name, affiliation and email address only) to the following email address: mindinganimals@gmail.com

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Tereza Vandrovcová the main organizer of last year’s 2nd Annual European Conference on Critical Animal Studies, defines Critical Animal Studies on a Vimeo video.

Tereza Vandrovcová on Critical Animal Studies from F Tepper on Vimeo.

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MAD Update, SLAPP Lawsuits, and the 2012 North American Critical Animal Studies Conference

Dylan Powell is back on the show to not only give us an update on the Marineland Animal Defense campaign but to also talk about the ways that MAD and Shark Allies Niagara have dealt with the threat of SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). An important conversation considering the current climate of repression to environmental and animal rights activists.

After the break Kimberly Socha joins Dylan Powell to talk about the 11th Annual North American Critical Animal Studies Conference in Buffalo, New York from March 2-4, 2012 at Canisius College. We even get hear a little bit about Socha’s new book, “Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation“ the first publication of a new Critical Animal Studies book series.

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The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is pleased to announce our 2012 Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies Awards of the Year. Awards will be bestowed on March 3, 2012 during the conference at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY (March 2-4). We thank the many nominees for submitting their work. It was an honor to consider the wonderful nominations from around the world! Although the final decisions were difficult, we truly feel that the following award recipients have done superb work to help animals and end oppression. We are proud to recognize their contributions to the field of Critical Animal Studies.

Critical Animal Studies Grassroots Project of the Year
“Food Empowerment Project”: http://www.foodispower.org/

Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year
“Conflict Gypsy”: http://www.conflictgypsy.com/

Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year
Dr. Lori Gruen, “The first 100”: http://first100chimps.wesleyan.edu/

Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project/Thesis of the Year
Lara Drew: “Freirean Pedagogy and Activism: Radical Adult Education in the Animal Liberation Movement

Critical Animal Studies Graduate Paper/Project/Dissertation of the Year
James Stanescu: “The Abattoir of Humanity: Philosophy in the Age of the Factory Farm”

Critical Animal Studies Book of the Year
Jason Hribal: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance

Critical Animal Studies Tyke Scholar of the Year
Tereza Vandrovcova

Critical Animal Studies Britches Scholar of the Year
Jessica Groling

Critical Animal Studies Hilda Scholar of the Year
Adam Weitzenfeld

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March 2 – 4, 2012
Canisius College
Buffalo, New York, USA

Host Sponsors:
Animal Allies Club of Canisius College

THEME:
From Greece to Wall St.: Global Economic Revolutions and Critical Animal Studies

As worldwide economies collapse and socio-political revolutions arise in response to education tuition increases, job losses, tax increases, land rights, and religious division, governments are collapsing only to be hijacked by corporations. In the US, national and transnational banks and financial institutions are being bailed out by the government, while common people are kicked out of their homes and fired from their jobs so corporations can save money. Simultaneously, global revolutionary fervor increases against corporations, banks, and corrupt financial institutions. People are demanding their rights and their nations back. The results of this backlash are police brutality and political repression toward activists worldwide. The theme of this year’s annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies is based on inquiry into how economic markets locally, regionally, nationally and globally affect nonhuman animals. Can these revolutions include a critical animal studies agenda? If not, why not? If they can, how would this agenda manifest both philosophically and strategically? How does the economy affect nonhuman animals? Are there alternative ethical and transformative economic systems that promote animal liberation? How are capitalism and transnational corporations affecting nonhuman animal exploitation? How do industrial complexes promote exploitive economic practices? What tactics and strategies can be used to resist economic exploitation? How do economic crises similarly oppress human and nonhuman animals and the environment? In what ways are the resulting oppressions intersectional? How are schooling, teaching, and education influenced by economic interests which promote exploitation?

We welcome proposals from community members including, but not limited to, nonprofit organizations, political leaders, activists, professors, staff, and students. We are especially interested in topics such as the history of social movements, spirituality and social movements, nonviolence, alliance politics, freedom, democracy, and notions of total inclusion. We are also interested in reaching across the disciplines and movements of environmentalism, education, poverty, feminism, LGBTQA, animal advocacy, globalization, prison abolition, prisoner support, labor rights, disability rights, anti-war activism, youth rights, indigenous rights/sovereignty, and other peace and social justice issues.

Areas of inquiry include:The Future of Critical Animal Studies
Revolution
Occupy Wall Street
Corporatization
Global Industrial Complex
Anarchist Studies
Feminism
Activism and Tactics for Social Change
Media
Social Networking
Critical Criminology
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
Speciesism
Animals in Relation to Religion and Spirituality
Abolition as Theory or Strategy
Animals and Property
Challenges to Human Domination
Sexuality and Gender
Culture, Language, and Animals
Racism
Domesticated and Wild Animals
Capitalism
Deconstructing Human and Animal
Social Constructions
Re-Defining Nature
Bio Ethics and Universal Ethics
Post-Colonialism
Geography, Space and Place
Animal Epistemology
Education and Schooling

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length.

We are receptive to different and innovative formats including, but not limited to, roundtables, panels, community dialogues, theater, and workshops.

You may propose individual or group “panel” presentations, but please clearly specify the structure of your proposal.

Please stress in your paper/roundtable/panel/etc. how you will be focusing on the program theme and linking it to economics and critical animal studies.

Proposals or abstracts for panels, roundtables, workshops, or paper presentations should be no more than 500 words. Please send with each facilitator or presenter a 100 maximum word biography (speaking to your activism and scholarship) in third person paragraph form.

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2012.

Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mail by January 25, 2012.

Please send proposals/abstracts and biographies electronically using MS Word and as an attachments in Times Roman 12 point font to: 

Stephanie Jenkins
Co-Conference Chair
scjenkins@gmail.com

Logistics Contact:
Morgan Jamie Dunbar
dunbarm@my.canisius.edu

Conference Schedule Contact:
Sarat Colling

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2011 European 2nd Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies

Prague, Czech Republic

October 15th – 16th, 2011

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THEME:

“RECONFIGURING THE ‘HUMAN’/’ANIMAL’ BINARY – RESISTING VIOLENCE”

For more information:

click here

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This two-day interdisciplinary conference will critically explore a variety of issues concerning the historic, current, and future situation of nonhuman animals across globally interconnected societies. Adopting a Critical Animal Studies perspective this conference seeks to interrogate not only the ‘question of the animal’ but also, with urgency, the deteriorating lived circumstances of many nonhuman animals. We are especially pleased to be hosting this conference in association with the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) as the 2nd Annual European Conference for Critical Animal Studies.

The 2nd annual European ICAS conference is an official pre-event for  Minding Animals 2 – which takes place at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 1-7th July 2012.

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THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS CONFERENCE
March 31 and April 1, 2010
10th Annual N. American Conference for Critical Animal Studies

REGISTRATION FORM
ACCOMMODATIONS
NIAGARA VEGAN GUIDE
Your Vegan Survival Guide for Brock University and the Niagara Region.
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CONFERENCE EVENT INVITATION
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES AT BROCK

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Dear Colleagues,

I am the organizer for a session on Non-Human/Human Species and Inequalities at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) that will be meeting in Las Vegas on Aug 19-21 (in conjunction with the American Sociological Association. SSSP is a smaller group of progressive educators and they have often had sessions on animal rights issues with fairly small attendance. I have three good papers so far but need two more to complete the session. This is a quick turn-around as I need to turn in my session (first deadline) tomorrow night. I could, however, still add papers until March 1st.

Please send papers to Julie at: jrandrzejewski@stcloudstate.edu

It is a great opportunity for junior faculty and graduate students to present at a national conference and to become involved in shaping next years sessions by getting involved with a division.

All the best,

Julie Andrzejewski, Professor
Co-Director, Social Responsibility Masters Program
Department of Human Relations and Multicultural Education
St. Cloud State University
720 4th Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301

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While we don’t know about the commitments of the conference as a whole, check out this panel with three ICAS presenters at Wesleyan’s Sex, Gender, Species conference.  The panel is scheduled for 4pm on Saturday, February 26th.

“Precarious Life, Playful Life: The Ethics of Non-Violence”, Stephanie Jenkins, Penn State

“Species Trouble: Judith Butler’s Non-Sovereign Subject and the Human-Animal Divide”, Eric Jonas, Northwestern

“Frames of Life: Judith Butler and the Precarious Question of the Animal”, James Stanescu, Mercer

You can check out paper abstracts here.

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Thinking About Animals Conference
March 31st to April 1st, 2011
Brock University, Canada

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Sociology at Brock University is issuing a Call for Papers for a conference on “Thinking About Animals” to be held March 31 and April 1, 2011 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

This two-day conference will explore a variety of issues concerning the current and historical situation of nonhuman animals and interactions with humans.

The Department is organizing this conference with the assistance of the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, the Departments of English, Political Science, History and Visual Arts, the MA Programme in Critical Sociology, and the MA Programme in Social Justice and Equity Studies.

We are especially pleased to be hosting this conference in association with the Institute of Critical Animal Studies as 10th Annual Northern American Conference for Critical Animal Studies.

As with past conferences, we welcome participation from both activists and academics. The conference will be completely vegan.

Please send a short proposal (2-3 paragraphs or enough details to describe your idea) to: ac2011@BrockU.CA
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2011
We will consider proposals on any relevant topics but some suggestions include:
Animal exploitation industries (economic, environmental, ethical aspects)
Analyzing Industry Propaganda
Undercover investigations
Anarchy and animals
Animals in War
Current campaigns and issues in animal rights activism
Sanctuaries
Humane education
Horse Slaughter in Canada: Cashing in on US Legislation
Captivity: Animals in zoos and “marine parks”
Vivisection and animals in scientific research
Biotechnology and animals
Historical understandings of animals
Animal rights history
Animal rights and social justice
Wildlife conservation and animal protection
Companion animals
Veganism and Vegetarianism
Meat and gender identities
Animals, labour and the working class
Compassion, empathy, solidarity
Animals and human identities
Wildlife trade
Social construction of animals
What animals think
Images of animals and animal activists
Developing animal rights activism and creating cultures of compassion

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Check out the Call for Presentations/Papers here:
http://www.brocku.ca/social-sciences/undergraduate-programs/sociology/thinking-about-animals

Facebook Event page for this Conference is here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162030053842020



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The 18^th Annual American University Conference on

Lavender Languages and Linguistics

American University, Washington DC

February 11-13, 2011

www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages

With great excitement Jennifer Grubbs, who manages the CriticalAnimalStudies listserve is helping organize the 18th Annual American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics. There will be two panels on veganism and speciesism that Anthony J. Nocella II and Jennifer Grubbs will be presenting on, so do not miss it. It will be great!!!

About the Conference: Stated broadly, the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference examines language use in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer life. Linguistic inquiry is broadly defined here, to include studies of: pronunciation, vocabulary and meaning, conversational structures and styles, life stories and other narratives, fiction, and poetry, the “language” of scientific and historic documents and print media, meanings encoded in spatial practices, sign language, non-verbal communication, and communication through photography, cinema and other visual arts. While presentations usually focus on local linguistic practices, they do not neglect the global spread of North Atlantic “gayspeak” and the growing tensions between (homo)sexuality and citizenship worldwide, and they acknowledge the need to position site-specific practices within broader contexts of social, cultural and linguistic theory. The language of conference presentation is English, but the languages explored in presentations have been as varied as Navajo and Japanese, Ukrainian and Hindi, Nicaraguan vernacular Spanish or Kechuan. Presentations from established scholars and from those just beginning to explore lavender language issues are welcomed.

The CONFERENCE program

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Friday, February 11^th

9:00 a.m. Conference registration opens

10:00 a.m. – 12N   Conference Roundtable: Lavender Language Activism

Scholar/activists and community discuss ways that they use use lavender             language             research as an entry points for social change.

12N – 1:30 p.m.    Luncheon on your own

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.   Scheduled Sessions I

a. 1:30- 4:30 p.m. Language and Homophobia

b. 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. “In and Out of the Coffin”: Queerness in contemporary                                     vampire fiction

3:45 – 5:15 p.m. Queer/Vegan/Language Part I: Othering other bodies: The                                     embodiment of speciesism in language

Saturday, February12th

9:00 a.m. Conference registration and book table open

10:00 – 12N Scheduled Sessions II

a. Exploring Possibilities for LGBTQ Discourses in School Settings

b. Queer/Vegan/Language Part II: Cyborgs, gastronomy, and felines, Oh My!                                     Queer             vegan explorations of representations of gender and sexuality.

c. Queer French & Francophone Voices and Spaces

12N – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon on-site

12:15 N  – 1:30 pm. WORKSHOP: Say My Name: Explorations of the Labels                                     that Confine             Queer Womyn of Color

1:30 – 2:30  Keynote Presentation I

• Scott Kiesling (U Pittsburgh) Taking a Queer Stance

2:30 – 5:30 PM Scheduled Sessions III

a. 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Queer Composition and Rhetoric

b. 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. Queer (and Other) Masculinities.

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Keynote Presentation II

• Carlos Decena (Rutgers U )  Code Swishing

Sunday, February 13

9:00 a.m. Conference registration and book table open

9:30 – 12N Scheduled Sessions IV

a. 9:30 a.m.  – 11:30 Textual and Discursive Practices I : Retrieving textual and                                     discursive practices from the  literary record

b. 9:30 a.m. – 12N Language, Migration, and Sexualities I

12N – 1: 00 p.m. Luncheon on-site

12:15 – 1:30 p.m.  Film Screenings

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.   Keynote Presentation III

• Sharif Mowlabocus (U Sussex)  Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology and Embodiment in the Digital Age

2:30 – 4:30 p.m.   Scheduled Sessions V

a. 2:30 p.m.  – 4:30 p.m. Textual and Discursive Practices II: Accounting for                                     textual and discursive practices in the current moment

b. 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Language, Migration, and Sexualities II

4:30 p.m. Conference closing events

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Featured speakers

• Scott Kiesling (U Pittsburgh) Taking a Queer Stance
• Sharif Mowlabocus (U Sussex)  Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology and Embodiment in the Digital Age
• Carlos Decena (Rutgers U )   Code Swishing

Scheduled Sessions and Presentations

Friday, February 11

Language and Homophobia

Gosse, Douglas (Nipissing University) douglasg@nipissingu.ca

Authorized and legitimate identities in elementary education: Queering the workplace experiences of male teachers

Martin, Richard Joseph (Princeton University) rjmartinjr@gmail.com

Outside the Charmed Circles: Xeno/Homophobia and the Politics of Analogy

Moreno, Sara ( independent scholar) saramdenicolas@hotmail.com

[Media Representations of Gay Marriage in Spain]

Lynch, Andrew (U Miami) alynch@mail.as.miami.edu

‘Banquemos a los putos’: The discourse of gay marriage in Argentina

Peterson, David (University of Nebraska at Omaha) davidpeterso1@unomaha.edu

Homophobic speech acts & space-time: National and international representations of queer cowboy subjectivity

Seals, Corinne A. (Georgetown University) cas257@georgetown.edu

When a ‘Non-issue’ Becomes an Issue in Newspaper Discourse Surrounding the LGBT Community

“In and Out of the Coffin”: Queerness in Contemporary Vampire Fiction”

Maria Verena Siebert (Ruhr University Bochum)     Maria.Siebert@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Outing Edward: Re-writing the Fetishized Male Vampire

Kindinger, Lia (Ruhr University Bochum)   evangelia.kindinger@rub.de
‘It ain’t possible to live until you cross somebody’s line’: The Queer South
in HBO’s True Blood

Krause, Amanda  (American University Washington, D.C.) ak1574a@student.american.edu

Fatal Attraction:  A study of sexuality, pain, and violence in Twilight Fan Forums

Queer/Vegan/Language Part I: Othering other bodies: The embodiment of speciesism in language

Grubbs, Jenny (American University) jennygrubbs@gmail.com The Black Sexualized Politics of PETA

Haynes, Nell (American University) nellhaynes@gmail.com Buttering up Women: Gender, Performance, and the Miss Butter Princess Contest

Nocella II, Anthony (Syracuse University’s Maxwell School) nocellat@yahoo.com Transgressing the Animal Otherness: Dis-Ableing the Queer Alien

Saturday, February 12

Exploring Possibilities for LGBTQ Discourses in School Settings

Kerr, Ryan ,  Author, On Growin’ Up Gay

Wall, Lucy (American U)    Heteronormativity Goes to School: On Positioning and Being Positioned

Discussant : Vivian Vasquez (American University)

Queer/Vegan/Language Part II: Cyborgs, gastronomy, and felines, Oh My! Queer vegan explorations of representations of gender and sexuality.

Aho, Tanja N. (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)                                                                             “The work goes on hungry or starving for hope/a pomegranate swollen in red rage”: Rethinking class through Dorothy Allison’s alimentary language

Cleman, Tess, (Holmes Art Studio)                                                                                                Women in relation to the feline archetype

Rabinowicz, Anna ( The New School for Design, New York)                                               Animal- based prosthetics and femininity: A redefinition of what it means to be human

Parry, Jovian. (York University) feralkindling@gmail.com Gender and slaughter in popular gastronomy

Queer French & Francophone Voices and Spaces

Thomann, Matthew (American) mathomann@gmail.com

Mapping Visibility in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire: Claims and counter claims tohegemonic LGBT discourse

Mack, Mehammed  (Columbia) mam2225@columbia.edu

‘How to speak the clandestine?’ Homosexuality, ethnicity, and disclosure in Téchiné’s Les Témoins and beyond

Maroun, Dan (U Illinois) dmaroun2@illinois.edu

Heterosexual Taming and Arab Animal Desire

Provencher, Denis  M. (U Maryland Baltimore County)  provench@umbc.edu

Family Ties and Sexual Independence in Medhi Ben Attia’s Le Fil (2010)

WORKSHOP: Say My Name: Explorations of the Labels that Confine Queer Womyn of Color

Monique D. Walker, MS (Drexel U)  mdw49@drexel.edu

Tifphane M. Riley, MA (Drexel U)

Queer Composition and Rhetoric

Varmavuori, Emilia (University of Jyväskylä) emilia.varmavuori@jyu.fi  & Marlen Eliot Harrison (University of Jyväskylä) marlen.harrison@jyu.fi
The Issue of Gay and Lesbian Parenting: Rhetorical Examinations of Finnish University Students’ Beliefs

McCleaf, Andrew (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) a.c.mccleaf@iup.edu
Five Silent Miles: A Working Title

McBeth, Mark (CUNY) jjmark.mcbeth@yahoo.com
Prompts, Props, Performativities: Enacting Education

Kaufman, Erica (CUNY) ericajane0808@gmail.com
Queering “Difficult” Texts: A Classroom Practice

Queer (and other) Masculinities

Gill, Harjant (American U)  harjant@gmail.com                                                                          Locating queer, dislocating masculinity in Indian cinema

Jensen, Randall  (Anthropologist/filmmaker) randalljensen@gmail.com

“50 Faggots”: A film project

Sikorski, Grace (Anne Arundel Community College)  gsikorski@aacc.edu  Deconstructing and Reconstructing Gender: The Technology of Transmasculinity

Ziman, Lal (U Colorado)  zimman@colorado.edu

Social and biological changes sin the voices of trans men: Early findings from a longitudinal study

Johnson, E. Patrick (Northwestern ) e-johnson10@northwestern.edu

My Indifference: Transgressing Transgender Normativity

Leap, William (American U) wlm@american.edu                                                                                 The “new gay man” in U.S.  gay porn, 1985

Sunday, February 13

Textual and discursive practices I : Retrieving textual and discursive practices from the  literary record

Montero, Erin C.A. (Warren Wilson College)  e.montero@warren-wilson.edu                             In the Borderlands: Browning Masculinities in Rigoberto González’s Butterfly Boy

Phillips, Angela  (Warren-Wilson College) aphillips@warren-wilson.edu

Cross-dressing gender in Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s  “Le Bonheur dans le crime”

Hunter, Clive ( Queens University, Belfast/Vanderbilt) clivehunter@hotmail.com

Queering hegemony: Hervé Guibert, writing, and role-play

Breidenbach, Carla (College of Charleston)  BreidenbachC@cofc.edu

I swear I am (not): The use of swear words in the fictional construction of the butch/femme identity in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood

Language, Migration, and Sexualities I

ORAM (Organization for Refuge Asylum and Migration)

Representatives discuss s the activities of this NGO             and the particular conditions facing             LGBT asylum seekers

Lainez, Rafael A.  (American U)   RafaelAlberto@msn.com The perfect neoliberal subjects: How Necropolitics helps shape Latino gay immigrants’ subjectivity

Moore, Ashley (Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan)                          ashley-m@kanda.kuis.ac.jp

New affordances, new constraints: a case study of the motivations, behaviours and attitude of Japanese gay men crossing borders

Dougher, Gerard (University of Chicago) gdougher@uchicago.edu

“The Cruisin’ Gate”:  Or What Narratives Of Gay Bars in Luang Prabang, Laos Say About Narratives of Belonging in UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Film Screening

Harjant Gill  (American U)   “Roots of Love”

Randall Jensen  (Anthropologist and film maker)  “50 Faggots”

Textual and discursive practices II: Accounting for textual and discursive practices in the current moment

Marcon, Mario (U Udine) mario.marcon@unid.it

Daddy & son: A corpus-based lexicographic perspective

Caskey, Forrest  (Western Carolina University) friscoforrest.com

‘Holding the linguistic floor’: A corpus and discourse analysis of male, female, and queer speech.

Kelley, Jeremy (UCLA) jerekell@gmail.com

The practice of  referencing in gay men’s interactions

Cho, John (Song Pae)  (U Illinois – Urbana) songcho@illinois.edu

No future? “Cool” meetings and the “cold” internet in South Korea

Nance, Stephen (U Oregon)  snance@uoregon.edu

Between lavender and light blue: Negotiating transnational and local gay identities in Russian

Language, Migration, and Sexualities II

Roebuck, Chris (UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco)

Between the Border and the Clinic: Transgender asylum and the biopolitics of a life

Pagliai, Valentina (American University) v.pagliai@yahoo.com

The Good and the Bad (Queer) Immigrant in the Italian Mass Media

Hwahng, Sel J. (Columbia University) sw2211@columbia.edu

On Poverty and People of Color: Male-to-Female Transfeminine People, Drug-using WSW/M, and the Eurocentric Heteropatriarchal (Un)Intelligibility of Public Health and Queer Studies Discourse

Khubchandani, Kareem (Northwestern University) kareemkhubchandani2013@u.northwestern.edu

A Faggo’ in Central Park: A Short Story Performance

Discussant: Galey Modan (Ohio State University )

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