Fwd: Resoundingly Queer Conference, Cornell, March 30-April 1, 2012

[Wes Pearce]

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>>> Mark Cosdon <mcosdon at allegheny.edu> 2/8/2012 3:29 PM >>>
This looks like quite a gathering!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sara L. Warner <dr_sara_warner at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Subject: Resoundingly Queer Conference, Cornell, March 30-April 1,
2012
To: ASTR-L at listserv.illinois.edu


Resoundingly Queer 
March 29 – April 1, 2012
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Co-organized by Nick Salvato (ngs9 at cornell.edu) and Sara Warner
(slw42 at cornell.edu)

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,” 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.

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 queer 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
sounding and resounding, 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.

A complete schedule and list of participants is available on our
website:
http://theatrefilmdance.cornell.edu/events/resoundinglyqueer.cfm

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is
required. We hope to see you there.
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Sara L. Warner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 
Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film, & Dance
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
430 College Avenue 
Ithaca, NY 14850
607.254.2727 ( tel:607.254.2727 )
http://faculty.cit.cornell.edu/sarawarner/



-- 
Mark Cosdon, Ph.D.
Dept. of Communication Arts and Theatre
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA 16335
(814) 332-2304
mcosdon at allegheny.edu
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mcosdon/
My Book: The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle
Pantomime, 1833-1931 (
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), part of the Theatre in the Americas Series at SIU Press.


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