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<DIV>sorry for cross posting/listing...<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Wes D. Pearce</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>>>> Mark Cosdon <mcosdon@allegheny.edu> 2/8/2012 3:29 PM >>><BR>This looks like quite a gathering!<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: <B class=gmail_sendername>Sara L. Warner</B> <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dr_sara_warner@yahoo.com">dr_sara_warner@yahoo.com</A>></SPAN><BR>Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM<BR>Subject: Resoundingly Queer Conference, Cornell, March 30-April 1, 2012<BR>To: <A href="mailto:ASTR-L@listserv.illinois.edu">ASTR-L@listserv.illinois.edu</A><BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><B>Resoundingly Queer <U></U><U></U></B></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>March 29 – April 1, 2012</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts</DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal>Co-organized by Nick Salvato (<A href="mailto:ngs9@cornell.edu" target=_blank>ngs9@cornell.edu</A>) and Sara Warner (<A href="mailto:slw42@cornell.edu" target=_blank>slw42@cornell.edu</A>)</DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal>The conference “Resoundingly Queer” will be convened at Cornell University from March 30 through April 1, 2012 as the inaugural event of the newly established Department of Performing and Media Arts (currently the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance). Designed explicitly to consonate with the Society for the Humanities’ yearlong exploration of “Sound,” <SPAN>this gathering of academics, artists, and activists will explore the utterances, echoes, moans, and groans that animate contemporary studies of sex, gender, and sexuality. The conference will include performances by gender-bending luminaries of the stage and screen, as well as plenary sessions featuring scholars and practitioners in conversation on panels, and roundtables. Renowned filmmaker John Waters will deliver a keynote address, along with Jill Dolan and David Savran.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN>All conference participants will share work that is “resoundingly queer,” by which we mean projects that consider the aesthetic and/or political utility of the term <I>queer </I>and the ways it resonates, or fails to reverberate, with the most urgent issues of our times. Performances, papers, and related presentations will be animated by the following questions, among others: What are the voices of dissent that have produced the greatest intellectual, aesthetic, and political gains for queer subjects over the past five decades? What voices have failed to register or have not been heard? What are the intellectual, historical, and cultural traditions that permit certain bodies to speak while silencing others? Conference participants will also consider, as provocations to critical inquiry, the rich, suggestive definitions of <I>sounding </I>and <I>resounding</I>, ranging from “ringing” to “proclaiming” to “swooning” to “celebrating” to “insisting.” Explicit topics addressed in the conference sessions will include the sounds of bodies in pleasure, pain, rapture, and recoil; silence as an aesthetic and/or political strategy; freedom of speech and its limitations; the echoes of homophile leagues, the civil rights movement, and/or second wave feminism in contemporary queer art and politics; embodied and disembodied speech acts; gossip, scandal, hearsay, complaint, and other forms of queer evidencing; the whispers of partially remembered and difficultly reconstructed queer histories; and queer musics in performance and in everyday life.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN>A complete schedule and list of participants is available on our website:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN><A href="http://theatrefilmdance.cornell.edu/events/resoundinglyqueer.cfm" target=_blank>http://theatrefilmdance.cornell.edu/events/resoundinglyqueer.cfm</A><BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN>This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. We hope to see you there.</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>----------<BR>Sara L. Warner, Ph.D.<BR>Assistant Professor <BR>Cornell University<BR>Department of Theatre, Film, & Dance<BR>Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts<BR>430 College Avenue <BR>Ithaca, NY 14850<BR><A href="tel:607.254.2727" target=_blank value="+16072542727">607.254.2727</A><BR><A href="http://faculty.cit.cornell.edu/sarawarner/" target=_blank>http://faculty.cit.cornell.edu/sarawarner/</A></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Mark Cosdon, Ph.D.<BR>Dept. of Communication Arts and Theatre<BR>Allegheny College<BR>Meadville, PA 16335<BR>(814) 332-2304<BR><A href="mailto:mcosdon@allegheny.edu" target=_blank>mcosdon@allegheny.edu</A><BR><A href="http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mcosdon/" target=_blank>http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mcosdon/</A><BR>My Book: <A href="http://www.siupress.com/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=2874&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" target=_blank><I>The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833-1931</I></A>, part of the Theatre in the Americas Series at SIU Press.<BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><BR>"I forget what eight was four."<BR></BODY></HTML>