Lesbian Lives XIX
‘Masquerades’
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 February 2012
University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
The Lesbian Lives Conference has been organised by the Women’s Studies Centre at University College Dublin for the past eighteen years and will this year celebrate its 19th birthday. The conference is a mix of academics, activists, performers, artists and writers and is open to all genders and any political and sexual orientations. The event has an ethos of welcome and accessibility.
The Lesbian Lives Conference is not just the world’s only annual academic conference in Lesbian Studies, it is now a large international event that draws speakers and participants from all continents and hosts the best-known as well as emerging scholars in the field. The conference gathers together academics, activists, performers and writers who do not otherwise have the opportunity to address such large audiences or to network across international and professional boundaries. It is also a forum for political organisation on the levels of both community activism and established international NGOs. Many books (academic and literary) and films (documentaries and dramas) are launched at this event and it is continually referenced in lesbian work and events internationally.
The conference sets the parameters for debate in the manifold disciplines that now take ‘Lesbian' or ‘Lesbian Communities’ as the object of enquiry or as a category for analysis.
You can read more about the conference and its history here. Please click here for call for papers. E-mail proposals to be sent to lesbian.lives@ucd.ie or posted to:
Lesbian Lives XVIII:
‘Masquerades’
Women’s Studies,
James Joyce Library Building,
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland.
Proposals are welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the following issues:
Masks, Hiding, Secrets and Lies, Passing, Pretence, Vision, Bodies, Gender, Sexualities, Performance, Closet, Histories, Literature, Politics, Identity, Stories, Inner & Outer Worlds, money, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Butch Fem, Trans, Life & Stage, Structure, Institutions
If you would like to get in touch please email us on lesbian.lives@ucd.ie.
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