Queer Accommodations & Displacements

Unfortunately, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Queer Accommodations and Displacements has been cancelled.

We will be working with the speakers on putting together a special from their papers. If you would like updates about the special issue, please get in touch with us.

10:00 – 10:30 Registration and Coffee

10:30 – 11:00 Welcome

11:00 – 12:30 Panel One: Inhabiting Sexual Politics
B Camminga (University of the Witwatersrand) – Sistaz of the Castle: Gloss and Glamour in the Shadow of Colonialism
Talia Meer – Encountering Desire: Feeling Sexuality, Race, Class and Gender in the Street
Sam Ritholtz (Oxford) – Queer/Trans Displacements in the United States and the Theoretical Borders of Forced Migration Studies
Jo Sauvaire and Noemi Stella (École Normale Supérieure) – Down-and-Out in Paris: Surviving as a Homeless Queer, a Compulsory Performance of Gender and Sexuality

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 Panel Two: Subjects and Spaces of Displacement
Melissa Chacón (LSE) – Everyday Dis-Placements
Cynthia Citlallin Delgado (NYU) – Performing in the Interstice: The Space-Making Practices of Casa Roshell
Flavia Meireles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) – The Political Life of Marielle Franco
Alyosxa Tudor (SOAS) – The Loss that Cannot be Recovered: Diaspora Nationalism, Melancholic Masculinity and Anti-Nationalist Queerings

3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30 – 5:00 Panel Three: Queer Politics of Accommodation
Daniel Conway (Westminster) – Contesting Conceptions of the LGBTQ+ Community at Hong Kong Migrants Pride: Queering Globalization and Neoliberal Space
Busisiwe Deyi (University of Pretoria) – You’re Not Gay if You Play with Girls: Exploring Heterosexuality as Property in the Regulation of African Refugees’ Access to Asylum
Aydan Greatrick (UCL) – The Theatre of Queer Asylum: Queer-Led Humanitarian Responses in Lebanon and Germany
Abeera Khan (SOAS) – Reading Sideways, Resisting Queer Accommodations: A Critique of the Queer Muslim Response to the Birmingham Protests

5:00 – 6:00 Break

6:00 – 7:30 Keynote:
Zethu Matebeni (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) — The Way Kungakhona: Black, Queer, Out of Place and in Place