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Date Written: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:13:27 +0000
Date Posted: Wed, 10 Sep 2013 18:13:27 -0400

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
March 6-8, 2014

Organized by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies

Sponsored by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies

With keynote speaker, Robert McRuer, Professor of English, George Washington
University. Professor McRuer will be presenting on his latest book project on
"cripping global austerity politics." McRuer is the author of Crip Theory:
Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and co-editor of Sex and Disability.

The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies invites proposals for
our second conference, "Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and
Globalizations" at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The conference
will be a two-day series of conversations in race, ethnic, queer, sexuality,
gender, and disability studies, attending to the affective and economic
investments in and resistance to financial, sexual, cultural, legal, political,
national, and global economies. We invite papers which extend recent debates
about homonationalism and "slow death"
to consider the ways in which queer attachments to and resistance of capital,
globalization, and the state trouble dominant notions of progress.
We encourage presenters to consider the multitude of ways in which investments
and attachments can be or have been made queerly: investment in communities, in
institutions, in movements, in "the future," in citizenship, as well as time
and monetary investments; and attachments to debt, relationships, dreams,
contracts, medicine/medical interventions, to prosthetics, identities, to
cultural and political obligations, to liberalism, radicalism, and so on.

We hope to create a vibrant space for intellectual exchange with an emphasis on
interdisciplinary scholarship. We welcome submissions from graduate students
from a wide range of fields, including gender and sexuality studies, ethnic
studies, American studies, geography, history, education, media and
communication, sociology, and cultural studies, among others.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

Affect, attachments, and investments

Immigration, citizenship, and diaspora

Empire and colonialism

Labor: sexual, affective, activist, academic, etc.

Production and consumption of media, aesthetics, and culture

Race, place, and identity

The politics of idleness, unproductivity, and failure

Kinship, family, and coalition

Consumption, consumer culture, and tourism

Neoliberalism and biopolitics

-Industrial complexes: military, non-profit, prison, and medical

Disability and crip politics

Post-humanism, animality, and technoscience

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words and a brief bio of no more than
100 words to queerattachments@gmail.com by OCTOBER 1, 2013. Conference
applicants will be notified by November 1.

TRAVEL GRANTS for presenters will be available, sponsored by the Steven J.
Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies. We will award up to three travel grants of
up to $500 each. More details will be available upon acceptance to present.

The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies (GIGSS) is a group of
graduate students from all disciplines and all levels who are committed to
creating new opportunities for interdisciplinary conversation and research in
sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota.

The Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies, named for the late
University of Minnesota alumnus, is dedicated to the advancement of GLBT
scholarship across the University and in the broader Twin Cities community.

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