Queer Discipline
… a series of research seminars on queer studies and interdisciplinarity.
Organised by
Hector Kollias on behalf of Queer@King’s.
For further information, or if you require information about access to events, please email
queer@kcl.ac.uk
Spring 2013
Wednesday 6 February, 2013, 18.15 K0.18, King’s Building, Strand Campus
Paulina Palmer (Warwick, retired) 'The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic'
**Please note the change of time and venue for this event**
Thursday 14 February 2013, 17.15, Council Room, Strand Campus
Nilanjan Sarkar (King’s College London): ‘“His-story” in Medieval Islamic(ate) India’
Thursday 28 February 2013, 17.15, Council Room, Strand Campus
Derek Duncan (St Andrews): 'Gloss: and the end of Pasolini'
Thursday 14 March 2013, 17.15, Council Room, Strand Campus
Ben Nichols (King’s College London): ‘Reductive: John Rechy's Queer Limitations’
Summer 2013
Thursday 9 May 2013, 17.15, Council Room, Strand Campus
Victoria Carroll (King’s College London): 'Generating Degenerates: Viral Miscegenation in the Works of Gil Cuadros'
Thursday 23 May 2013, 17.15, Council Room, Strand Campus
Skyler Hijazi (King’s College London): ‘Child-like Bodies, Digital Architectures, and a Contemporary “Scholastics of Unhappy Love”: Economies of Sublimation and Juvenation in Queer Anime Fanart’
Previous events...
Autumn 2012
Thursday 11 October 2012, 18.00, K0.20, Strand Campus
Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths) 'Willful Queers: A Queer History of Will'
This lecture will offer a queer history of the will, showing how ‘the will’ has been associated in the history of ideas with the tendency to deviate or to lose one’s place; wandering, and error (to err is to stray). The lecture explores queer politics (and specifically queer of colour politics) as a politics of willfulness in which bodies are not only willing not to go with the flow but are willing to cause its obstruction.
Thursday 1 November 2012, 17.15, Council Room, Strand Campus
Thomas Glave (Binghampton/Cambridge) 'Jamaican, Octopus'
Thursday 15 November 2012, 19.00, Great Hall, Strand Campus
Queer@King's and the Centre for Life Writing present
Alison Bechdel in conversation with Adam Phillips
Registration for this event is now full. Those wishing to attend may still try to do so, but will not be guaranteed a place
Thursday 22 November 2012, 17.15, Council Room, Strand Campus
Brent Pilkey (Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London):
'Architectural History Meets Queer Theory: The Queering of Heteronormativity in London's Homes'
Thursday 6 December, 18.00 at K0.20, King's Building, Strand Campus
Peter Jackson (Australian National University, Canberra):
'Putting Transgenderism and Sexually Intimate Friendship into Transnational Queer History'
Wednesday 12 December 2012, 14.00-16.00, K0.18
Adrian Rifkin (Middlesex)
We regret that this event has been cancelled.
Spring 2013
Thursday 17 January 2013, 17.15, Council Room, Strand Campus
Jackie Stacey (Manchester): ‘Embodying Queer Temporalities: Peggy Shaw, Barbara Hammer and the Liveliness of Cinema’