Queer Futurities, Today: Utopias and Beyond in Queer Theory
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Symposium in Berlin 18.5.-19.5.2009
Location:
- Finnland-Institut in Deutschland, Georgenstr. 24
- ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, Christinenstr. 18/19 Haus 8
(It is fairly easy to get from the Finnish institute to ICI, where Lee Edelman’s talk will take place. First two stations with the S-Bahn (Friedrichstrasse – Alexanderplatz), and then 3 stations with the U-Bahn (U2, Alexanderplatz- Senefelder Platz).)
- ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, Christinenstr. 18/19 Haus 8
IMPORTANT: Please sign up for the symposium by sending a message to info@finstitut.de or call +49-30-52002 6010. This way we can make sure there will be enough seats (and coffee) for everyone!
Link to the abstracts
PROGRAM (updated 7.5.2009)
MONDAY 18.5.2009
10.00 Morning Coffee (at the Finnish Institute)
11.00 Opening Words
11.15. Workshop (10 min papers and discussion)
Tomasz Jarymowicz: Utopian Thinking and Queer Theory: A Difficult Relationship
Volker Woltersdorff: Apocalypse NOW! Queer Stagings of the End
Annamari Vänskä: Figuring Out Queerness of Children in Fashion Advertising. Disfiguring Childhood Innocence, Outing the Paedophilic Mind or Paying the Price of Reproductive Futurism?
Jan Wickman: State-Sponsored Queer?
Tuula Juvonen: Productive Criticality and Queer Potentiality. A Case Study
13.15-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-16.00 Talks
Katerina Kolarova: Queer Futurity Desires the Crip
Kevin S. Amiddon: Not Like Me? Toward a Queer Epistemology
16.00-16.30 COFFEE (at the Finnish Institute)
16.30-17.30 Talks
Antu Sorainen: Queer Decency
Christien Garcia: Playing Hooky; or, Figuring as Absentee: Queer Accountability and the Praxis
17.30 DINNER and location change
19.00 Keynote: Lee Edelman: Against Survival: Queerness in a Time that’s Out of Joint (ICI)
21.00 Fag Bar at Ronson’s with karaoke, dancing, dark room and sleazy vintage porn cinema Warschauerstr 34 in Berlin Friedrichshain
TUESDAY 19.5.2009
10.00 Morning Coffee (at the Finnish Institute)
11.00-12.15 Workshop (15 min papers and discussion)
Jin Haritaworn: Homophobic Affect and the Militarization of Intimacy
Željko Blaće & Milo DePrieto: QueerGames and HOMOLYMPICS
Thomas O. Haakonson: Queers in Space: The Queer Art of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Katherine Wiedlack: Queer : Punk Rock Expressed Rejection on Futurism
12.15-13.15 LUNCH
13.15-14.15 Harri Kalha: Socializing with the Anti-Social
14.15-15.45 Talks
Tomasz Basiuk: The Arrows of Time in Samuel R. Delany’s Life Writing
Eveline Kilian: Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge and Myron as Allegories of Queer
Futurities
15.45-16.15 COFFEE (at the Finnish Institute)
Philip Pass: The Limitations of Play: Imagination and the Possibility of an
idiosyncratic, BDSM Futurity
Anu Koivunen: Affect as Futurity: Queer Thinking and the Lures of the Virtual
16.15-17.15 Talks
End Discussion & Drinks & Let’s Dance!
