CFP: CATR/ACRT 2014: Queer Traversals: LGBTQ Theatres, Performances, and Cultures in a Globalizing World

[Paul Halferty]

*(Please distribute widely) *


*CFP: CATR/ACRT 2014*


Canadian Association for Theatre Research / Association Canadienne de la
Recherche Théâtrale Conference 24-27

May 2014 Brock University

*Curated Panel: *
*Queer Traversals: LGBTQ Theatres, Performances, and Cultures in a
Globalizing World *


 *Coordinators**:* J. Paul Halferty (University of Toronto) and Stephen Low
(Cornell University)


In our current post-civil rights context, the merits and effects of the
liberal incorporation of formally marginalized queer subjects, and the ways
in which these discourses travel and are received across various
international boarders, is a hotly debated subject. One of the most well
known critiques of this trend is found in Jasbir Puar’s *Terrorist
Assemblages:* *Homonationalism in Queer Times *(2007), in which she argues
that the liberal incorporation of “certain—but certainly not
most—homosexual, gay, and queer bodies” is attended by a concurrent and
“parallel process of demarcation [of racialized] population[s] targeted for
segregation, disposal, or death” —what she describes as “a
reintensification of racialization through queerness” (xii). Taking its cue
from these debates, as well as the conference theme, “Boundaries without
Borders,” this curated panel aims to investigate the ways LGBTQ subjects,
currently and historically, have experienced, understood, and negotiated
borders of all kinds, and the ways these interactions have affected or been
represented in theatre and performance.



As well as engaging with contemporary accounts of homonationalism or queer
international movements, the panel is also interested in papers that
investigate the following topics:



   - How knowledge “about” queerness has traveled theatrically (in plays
   and performances) across borders and the effects of these transfers
   - Analyses of the ways in which queerness crisscrosses ethnicity,
   nationality, religion, language, sex, and gender
   - Considerations of the limits and potentials of international
   conceptions of LGBTQ identities and communities
   - Questions of queer historiography
   - Accounts of the politics involved in queer artists, and queers more
   generally, who cross national and international boarders
   - Stagings of queerness as a measure of nationalism
   - Conflations of queerness and nationalism



*Please email a 250-word paper proposal and 150-word bio to J. Paul
Halferty (**paulhalferty at gmail.com* <paulhalferty at gmail.com>*) and Stephen
Low (**low.stephen82 at gmail.com* <low.stephen82 at gmail.com>*) by December 9th
2013.*

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