Date: 3 July 2023 - 4 July 2023
Location: Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, 海角社区
Convenors: Isa铆as Fanlo (海角社区),听Javier Perez Osorio (海角社区)
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Queerness is, among many other things, change; therefore, a queer gaze needs to be aware of mutations and deviations. In their fundamental essay 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Queer about Queer Studies Now?鈥� (2005), David L. Eng, Jack Halberstam and Jos茅 Esteban Mu帽oz asked themselves a critical question: given all the achievements and the preponderance of identity politics in social, political, and academic discourses, what are the new paths Queer Theories should embrace? 鈥淭he contemporary mainstreaming of gay and lesbian identity 鈥攁s a mass-mediated consumer lifestyle and embattled legal category鈥� demands a renewed queer studies ever vigilant to the fact that sexuality is intersectional, not extraneous to other modes of different鈥�, the authors claim (1).
Queer Hispanists have hitherto explored the state of the issue and the new divergences of the discipline, in volumes like听驴Entiendes? Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings听(1995),听Hispanisms and Homosexualities听(1998), and听Queer Iberia. Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance听(1999). But what happens to Queer Hispanisms Now? Have Queer Studies in the field of Hispanism transcended the initial emphasis on the sociocultural outpouring of desire and sexuality and its radical potential? How can a queer gaze articulate crossings and intersections between the different territories and cultures included within the field (Peninsular Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Spanish Latin America, Portugal, Brazil, Native Cultures)?
The panels in this conference will be organised around critical debates currently taking place in the field of Queer Studies. The panellists will be invited to contribute to those debates by exploring the intersections between queerness and Hispanism.
It is time to think about Queer Hispanisms Now.
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