> Europe Without Homophobia: Queer-in(g) Communities
>
> Location: Poland
> Conference Deadline: 2004-02-27
>
> EUROPE WITHOUT HOMOPHOBIA: QUEER-IN(G) COMMUNITIES
> WROCLAW, Poland
> 24-26 May, 2004
>
> The 5th international queer and gender studies
> conference organized
> in Poland since 2000 will concern the largely silent
> presence of
> queer people in the communities of Europe, from the
> local to the
> international level. We want to consider how the
> European accession
> of ten new member states in May 2004 will alter the
> lives of queer
> people in Central/Eastern Europe, and how we can
> contribute to making
> sexual minorities in the European Community visible,
> heard, safe, and
> equal before the law. We hope to investigate the
> practical ways
> (including legal actions, information campaigns,
> political
> participation, etc.) of achieving the bold vision
> suggested in the
> title: Europe without homophobia. We plan to focus
> on the following
> areas:
>
> * Ethics of change
> * Legal solutions to queer peoples' problems
> * Queer peoples' history
> * Queer perspectives on film, art, literature,
> and popular culture
> * Non-homophobic education
> * Queer interventions in psychology and
> sexology
> * Queer theory and activism: does activism work
> without theory?
> * Queering academia
> * Ideologies of politeness and the strategies of
> effrontery
>
> The deadline for paper proposals is February 27,
> 2004. Please send
> 300-word abstracts in Polish or English by e-mail or
> snail mail to:
>
> A bilingual selection of papers from previous
> conferences, A Queer
> Mixture: Gender Perspectives on Minority Sexual
> Identites, was
> published in 2002 by Wydawnictwo Slask." For more
> details on the
> previous conferences, the book, or the 2004
> conference Europe without
> Homophobia please visit our website.
>
> Organizing Committee:
>
> * Kolo Naukowe Gender Studies "Nic Tak Samo",
> Wroclaw University
> * Dr Tomasz Sikora, University of
> Bielsko-Biala, Dept. of English
> Cultures and Literatures
> * Dr Dominika Ferens, Wroclaw University, Dept.
> of English
> * Dr Tomasz Basiuk, Warsaw University, American
> Studies Center
>
> Dr. Dominika Ferens
> Department of English
> University of Wroclaw
> ul. Kuznicza 22
> 50-138 Wroclaw, Poland
>
> Email: dferens@???
> Visit the website at
> http://tobasiuk.webpark.pl/index-eng.html
>
>
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