[Gesth-l] Seeking Queer Alliances: Resisting Dominant Discourses

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Warsaw University

Gender Studies Center and American Studies Center

 

 

Seeking Queer Alliances: Resisting Dominant Discourses and 

Institutions 

7th international queer studies conference

 

29-30.08.2006

 

As the political climate in many parts of the world turns 

increasingly conservative, we are asking whether a concept such as 

global homophobia may be a useful analytical and/or political tool, 

and-as a correlate question-whether queer concepts travel well 

across political borders and geo-cultural spaces. 

 

Do dominant discourses that include neo-liberalism as well as 

fundamentalisms of all kinds, and dominant institutions spanning the 

state as well as churches, require distinct forms of 

counterpractice? How to reclaim discourse appropriated by the 

dominant institutions?  

 

What are and what could such practices of resistance be? To what 

extent may our experiences of LGBTQ subjugation and LGBTQ resistance 

be shared and also used to mutual advantage? Who may our dialogue 

partners be for such sharing? What alliances have been formed, and 

in which locations, for purposes of political activism and for 

achieving particular strategic aims? What is the place of feminist 

concepts in queer theory? 

 

How is queer theory reflected in political activism, and how have 

particular theoretical concepts been adopted for political practice 

in different cultural contexts? How do activists serve as theorists, 

how do theorists serve as political practitioners, and how does the 

relationship between those functions manifest itself across contexts?

 

What is the role of mutual respect and self-respect in the forming 

of queer/LGBTQ alliances across cultural spaces? What are some 

internal and external obstacles to communication among queers 

occupying different social and geographical spaces? What role does 

the category of gender play in those different places? And what are 

the factors of cohesion from one alliance to another? 

 

We wish to ask those questions, and others, in the context of the 

translatability of queer concepts across cultural and linguistic 

spaces, as well as the translatability between the analytical and 

the practical uses to which these concepts are put. 

As far the format of the conference is concerned, there will be 

twelve 90-minute sessions  over the course of two days, and a two-

hour summing up discussion at the end of each day. We would like 

each of the 90-minute sessions to be hosted by individuals or teams 

("session leaders") who will be responsible for the theme and form 

of the session, e.g. workshop, roundtable discussion, conventional 

panel, panel consisting of several short statements (or "postcards") 

followed by a discussion, or any other format. 

We welcome 200-word proposals for whole 90-minute sessions or 

individual papers until May 15th, 2006. The proposals should be sent 

to: 

Tomasz Basiuk

American Studies Center

Warsaw University 

Al. Niepodleglosci 22

02-653 Warszawa (Warsaw) 

Poland

Fax: (+4822) 5533322

Or via e-mail:

queerconference at gmail.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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