Queer Discipline
… a series of research seminars on queer studies and interdisciplinarity.
Organised by
Robert Mills on behalf of Queer@King’s.
For further information, or if you require information about access to events, please email
queer@kcl.ac.uk
Autumn 2011
17.15 • Tuesday 11 October 2011 • Council Room, Strand Campus
Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford): ‘A Greek Writer Murdered in Paris’: Movement, Sexuality & the Homosexual Type in the 1930s
15.00-18.30 • Friday 11 November 2011 • Room 1.10, Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus
Symposium: Where Is Queer Studies?
An afternoon of reflections on the position of queer studies in the contemporary political landscape. Panellists include
Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory, Hamburg/Berlin),
Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester),
William Spurlin (Brunel University).
Organised by Matias Gardin and Skyler Hijazi.
17.15 • Tuesday 6 December 2011 • Council Room, Strand Campus
Vanja Hamzic (King’s College London): Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights & Dichotomies of Personhood
Spring 2012
17.15 • Thursday 19 January 2012 • Council Room, Strand Campus
Masha Raskolnikov (Cornell University): Forced Feminization: Chaucer's ‘The Legend of Good Women’ and the Politics of Over-Apologizing
Co-sponsored with Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies.
17.15 • Tuesday 14 February 2012 • Council Room, Strand Campus
Michael Snediker (Queen’s University): Out of Line, On Hold: Winnicott's Quuer Sensibilities
Following this talk, Snediker will also be giving a poetry reading: MANHUNT and Other Desperations.
17.15 • Tuesday 28 February 2012 • Council Room, Strand Campus
Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck, University of London): Claim & Critique: Transforming Intimate Citizenship?
• NEW EVENT •
Please join Queer@King's for a special workshop with
Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University and currently William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University.
Wednesday 14 March 2012 • 14.00-16.00 • Room C16, East Wing, Strand Campus
We will discuss work in progress from Professor Povinelli's new book
Theory Aside, forthcoming from Duke University Press. To receive the extracts we'll be discussing, please email
jane.k.elliott@kcl.ac.uk
17.15 • Thursday 15 March 2012 • Council Room, Strand Campus
Thomas Dowson (visiting scholar, King’s College London): Queerying Archaeology & the Archaeology of Queer: Disciplinary Engagements with the Past
Summer 2012
17.15 • Thursday 3 May 2012 • Council Room, Strand Campus
Tim Dean (University at Buffalo): Stumped: The Pornography of Disability
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A NEW ADDITION TO OUR PROGRAMME. Hector Kollias's paper has been rescheduled for 10 May.
17.15 • Thursday 10 May 2012 • S3.40, Strand Building, Strand Campus
Hector Kollias (King’s College London): The Queer Phallus: Have It, Be It, Just Don't Fuck With It
10.00-18.00 • Friday 8 June 2012 • Council Room, Strand Campus
One day conference: Queer/Animal
Organised by Robert Mills and Ben Nichols (King’s College London) and Jason Edwards (University of York). Featuring Carla Freccero (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Queer@King’s is also pleased to be co-sponsoring the following events in 2011–12:
19.30 • Tuesday 25 October • Anatomy Theatre & Museum
UK premiere of
Private Romeo (dir. Alan Brown, 2011).
Sponsors: London Shakespeare Centre and Queer@King’s. Followed by a q&a with the director. Anatomy Theatre and Museum.
For further details see the
Arts & Humanities Festival site.
Thursdays in autumn
AIDS@30: Three Decades of Responding to HIV/AIDS
Sponsors: Department of History, the Centre for the Humanities and Health and Queer@King’s. Organised by Richard McKay (King’s College London).
Further information on this site.
10.30-17.00 • Friday 18 May 2012 • Council Room, Strand Campus
Sex and the Sacred
Featuring Bill Burgwinkle (University of Cambridge), Virginia Burrus (Drew University), Cary Howie (Cornell University), Diane Watt (University of Surrey). Sponsors:
Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies and Queer@King’s.