<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:18.4px;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:18.4px;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We are pleased to share the call for papers below, for the second international conference on queer kinship, organised by <span class="gmail-il">Charlotte</span> <span class="gmail-il">Ross (University of Oxford)</span>, Silvia Antosa (University for Foreigners of Siena) and Paolo Frascà (University of Toronto). </font><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please see our </span><a href="https://www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/home" id="m_6732260688149054175OWAd25f61e7-57b6-df26-a787-f9dc4aad46cc" title="https://www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/home" target="_blank" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">website</a><a href="https://www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/home" id="m_6732260688149054175OWAeba617bd-a9f9-4791-c841-a664d18dc4b2" title="https://www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/home" target="_blank" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"> </a><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">for further information about our activities, which include a blog and an online seminar series.</span></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:18.4px;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:18.4px;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes, <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Silvia Antosa</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0b5394"><br></font></div><font size="1">Silvia Antosa (PhD)</font></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0b5394">Associate Professor of English</font><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">  </span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0b5394">Director, Centre for Foreign Languages (</font><font size="1" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://class.unistrasi.it/home.asp" target="_blank">CLASS</a>)</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Director</span><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">, </span><i style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><a href="https://www.mimesisedizioni.it/catalogo/collana/880" target="_blank">TransCulture Book Series</a> </i><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">(Mimesis)</span><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0b5394">Co-</font><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Director</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0b5394">, <i><a href="https://www.mimesisedizioni.it/catalogo/collana/719" target="_blank">AngloSophia Book Series</a> </i>(Mimesis)</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Co-</span><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Director,</span><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> <a href="https://www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/home" target="_blank">Queer Kinship Network (Conference and Publication Series)</a></span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0b5394">Co-</font><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Director,</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0b5394"> <a href="https://aais.italianstudies.net/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=11086&pk_association_webpage=22890" target="_blank"><i>Queer Caucus of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS</i></a>)</font></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0b5394"><a href="https://unistrasi.academia.edu/SilviaAntosa" target="_blank">https://unistrasi.academia.edu/SilviaAntosa</a></font></div><div><img src="http://www.unistrasi.it/firma/logo.jpg" width="225" height="46" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin-right: 0px;"></div></div></div></div></div><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:18.4px;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-93f9195f-7fff-f618-5d1d-18330e4c33f2"><br><p dir="ltr" s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y fostering critical debate and intercultural exchange, the project develops a deeper awareness of diverse configurations of queer bonds and families within a multicultural and inclusive framework. As well as rendering forms of queer kinship more visible, the project seeks to inform current debates on inclusivity, wellbeing and representation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The queer family and queer affective bonds are certainly not new phenomena, and many modalities of queer kinship, beyond legal family structures, or the pervasive norm of the ‘couple’, have existed for a considerable time: these include, but are not limited to, so-called romantic friendships, Boston marriages, polyamorous communities, queer kinship groups, and unconventional adoptions such as </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">fillus de anima</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.  Many forms of queer kinship have been marginalised in the socio-cultural contexts we study and beyond, or ‘read out’ of cultural texts, and continue to be stigmatised in some way. Texts which express queer bonds have been censored, or remained unpublished, and individuals and groups are discriminated against. This is particularly the case in Italy, where historic and current governments and institutions have propagated racist, heteronormative, homo- and transphobic discourses and legislation. It is also the case in the Anglophone world, which is marred by imperial homophobic and transphobic laws and where contemporary violent discourses against 2SLGBTQIA+ people and women are setting the clock of social progress back. In response to this violence and hoping to support the building of intellectual tools against it, the project seeks to render cultural expressions of queer kinship more visible, to analyse their variegated dynamics. The transcultural and transnational circulation of discourses on queer families and kinship has yet to be fully assessed and investigated. A deeper understanding of these cultural discourses is crucial to improving our awareness of the experiences, innovative practices and wellbeing of those who choose to diverge from the script of the heteronormative family.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This conference at Christ Church, Oxford will explore cultural representation of queer kinship across time and space. One starting point might be the late nineteenth century, a period marked by significant shifts in terms of how sexuality was understood and represented. Some questions we seek to explore are: how have understandings of sexuality and family structures from this period shaped later forms of queer affect? What forms of queer affect preceded this period, and how do they resonate across the years, creating a queer ‘touch across time’ (Dinshaw)? How are we bound by this past, what do we inherit from it, and how do we either harness or escape its legacies (Love)? We are particularly keen to receive contributions for papers that trace modalities and articulations of queer affect across cultures, and temporal periods, identifying resonances, or what Lanser calls ‘confluence’, and noting variations between forms of queer kinship in different periods. As well as rendering forms of queer kinship more visible, and bringing them into dialogue, this diachronic and cross-cultural focus will facilitate critical reflection on what we can learn from more and less recent practices and discourses that can inform current debates. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Themes for discussion include (but are not limited to): </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Resonances and divergences between forms of queer kinship in different periods and cultural contexts;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queer kinship beyond the couple norm; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Childless adults, parentless children and their affective ties; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queer communities; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Polyamory; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Intersections of race, class, ability, gender, and sexuality and their impact on queer families and communities; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Multigenerational kinship; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queer mobility and queer diasporas</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The relationship between different textual genres, e.g. novels, memoirs, self-help books, films, historical documents; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Intercultural and interlinguistic translations and transpositions of queer kinship;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Methodologies and vocabularies for exploring queer kinship and lineages across time and cultural contexts.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Confirmed plenary speakers: </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stefano Evangelista</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Trinity Hall, University of Oxford, his work explores the links between English literature and other languages, classical antiquity, visual culture and the history of sexuality. He is author of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (2009), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Citizens of Nowhere: Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (2021) and editor of numerous collections on topics including the reception of Oscar Wilde (2010), the Victorian poet A.C. Swinburne (2013), and translation in Decadent literature (2020).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Vetri Nathan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA, Vetri Nathan specialises in the exploration of national, racial and diasporic identities, both in Italy and the wider Mediterranean region. He is author of </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Marvelous Bodies: Italy’s New Migrant Cinema</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (2017), and of numerous articles on migration, diversity and identity. He is the founder and director of </span><a href="http://www.thecybercenelab.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">The Cybercene Lab</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, a space to study multispecies wellbeing, healing and habitability, and the connections between cultural discourse, manufactured conflicts, climate change and habitat/biodiversity loss.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Selby Wynn Schwartz</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">She is the author of academic articles and several acclaimed books that explore questions of gender, embodiment and queerness in Italian, French and British cultures. Her book </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> was a finalist for a 2020 Lambda Literary Award.  Her next book, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">After Sappho</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. In 2024, Schwartz was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please submit a 250-word abstract plus a brief bio (max 100 words), in English or Italian, by 31</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:0.6em;vertical-align:super">st</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">  January 2025, via this </span><a href="https://forms.gle/jVUyDWECgnwBz7MY6" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(70,120,134);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">form</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For any further information, please contact Charlotte Ross: </span><a href="mailto:charlotte.ross@chch.ox.ac.uk" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(70,120,134);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">charlotte.ross@chch.ox.ac.uk</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Speakers will receive a notification of confirmation by 15 February 2025.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This is an in-person event; we appreciate that international travel and other reasons may make it difficult for some to attend. We are therefore also organising a series of online seminars; details to follow on our website in the new year. The languages of the conference will be English and Italian. There will be no conference fees and some travel subsidies are available; details to follow on acceptance of proposals.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Conference organising committee: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Charlotte Ross (Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Silvia Antosa (University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Paolo Frascà (University of Toronto, Canada)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Essential Critical Bibliography: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sarah Ahmed, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Duke University Press 2006. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sarah Ahmed, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Promise of Happiness</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Duke University Press 2010. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Judith Butler, “Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?”, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, XIII, 1 (2002), pp. 14-44. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Judith Butler, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Undoing Gender</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Routledge 2004. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Carolyn Dinshaw, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers and the Queerness of Time</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Duke University Press, 2012.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lisa Duggan, “The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism”, in Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Duke University Press 2002, p. 175-194. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lee Edelman, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Duke University Press 2004. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">David L. Eng, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Duke University Press 2010. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Carla Freccero. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queer/Early/Modern</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Durham: Duke UP, 2016.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Elizabeth Freeman and Tyler Bradway (eds), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Duke University Press 2022. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Jacqui Gabb and Janet Fink, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Couple Relationships in the 21st Century</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Palgrave Macmillan 2015. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Susan Golombok, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Cambridge University Press 2015. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Roberto Kulpa, Joanna Mizielinska, Agata Stasińska, “(Un)Translatable queer? Or what is lost, and can be found in translation”, in Sushila Mesquita </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">et al.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, In: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Import-Export-Transport: Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Sushila Mesquita, Maria Katharina Wiedlack and Katrin Lasthofer (eds.). Zaglossus, 2012.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">James Heckert </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">et al. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(eds), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Mapping Intimacies: Relations, Exchanges, Affects</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Palgrave Macmillan 2013. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stephen Hicks, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting: Families, Intimacies, Genealogies</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Palgrave Macmillan 2011. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Susan S. Lanser, </span><a href="https://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/comparatively-lesbian-queerfeminist-theory-and-sexuality-history-0" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(70,120,134);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">‘Comparatively lesbian: Queer/feminist theory and the sexuality of history</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. ACLA, 2015.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(255,255,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">er/</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Valerie Lehr, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queer Family Values: Debunking the Myth of the Nuclear Family</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1999. Laura McKenzie, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships: Ageless Love?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Palgrave Macmillan  2015. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Heather Love. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2007 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Joanna Mizielinska, Jacqui Gabb and Agata Stasinska (eds), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queer Kinship and Relationships</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Special issue of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sexualities</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, XXI, 7 (2018). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Jasbir Puar, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Duke University Press 2007. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, Ana Cristina Santos, and Mariya Stoilova (eds), </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, UCL Press 2020. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Róisín Ryan-Flood, ‘Queer Lineage. On Generational Sexualities, LGBTQ Identity, and Visibility’. In Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth Murphy (eds) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queering Desire. Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivities</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Routledge, 2024.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">David Schneider, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">A Critique of the Study of Kinship</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, University of Michigan Press 1984. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.39;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Kath Weston (ed.) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Columbia University Press 1991. </span></p></span></div></div><br></div>