20th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference - The Modern Lesbian
Deadline: 14/09/2012
15-16th February 2013
Hosted by University of Brighton
LGBT and Queer Life Research Hub
In conjunction with Women’s Studies Centre,
University College Dublin
The theme for the 20th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference is The Modern Lesbian. Conference conveners of this two-day international and interdisciplinary conference now welcome proposals from academics, scholars, students, activists, documentary and film-makers, writers and artists.
This year’s keynote speakers and guests include: Sarah Schulman, Lisa Downing, a book launch of Laura Doan’s Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality and Women’s Experience of Modern War, 1914-18, Rachel Adams (The Modern Lesbian photography project), plus special screening/panels from the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
Proposals are welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the following:
• The Modern Lesbian?
• lesbians and (post-)modernism
• lesbians and The New Woman
• lesbians in the history of sexuality
• lesbians and modernity
• lesbian mobilities, migrations, movements and diasporas
• Age, aging, generation gaps, lifecourses and has'bians
• Bisexuals, bi-queers, and other (post-)moderns
• modern transitions, trans modernities, Trans people
• gender violence/s
• lesbians (and) technologies
• Modern media
• Modern lifestyles
• lesbians and surrealism
• lesbians, fashion and fashion statements
• Feminism and Eugenics
• Political campaigns and communities
• (emerging) communities, identities, labels and transgressions
• (traditional) weddings, (serial) marriages
• pets, animals and other non-humans
• lesbians, sex, reproduction and bed death
• the lesbian detective
• lesbian pulp
• queer temporalities, futures and futurism
• queering surrealism
