34.2674, Calls: Queer & Trans Philologies

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Subject: 34.2674, Calls: Queer & Trans Philologies

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Date: 11-Sep-2023
From: Stephen Turton [smt75 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Queer & Trans Philologies


Full Title: Queer & Trans Philologies

Date: 22-Mar-2024 - 23-Mar-2024
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Queer & Trans Philologies Conference Committee
Meeting Email: queertransphilologies at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800/#description

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature;
Philosophy of Language; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2023

Meeting Description:

It has been 30 years since Carla Freccero (1994) coined ‘queer
philology’, but it is in the last decade that the term has reached its
widest circulation—in works of linguistics, codicology, literary
criticism, and cultural studies, covering texts that range from the
medieval (Magnani and Watt 2018) through the early modern (Masten
2016) to the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries
(Nicolazzo 2014; Turton 2022; Snediker 2015). Concurrently, queer
philology has been joined by a number of related analytical lenses
that have been trained on particular languages, times, and places: a
‘trans philology’ of early modern England (Gamble 2019), an ‘erotic
philology’ of the Spanish Golden Age (Martín 2008), and an
‘eroto-philology’ of early twentieth-century Yiddish (Weiman-Kelman
2019).

Queer & Trans Philologies is a two-day hybrid conference that seeks to
give a platform to this unruly family of philologies by bringing
together researchers working across disciplines on the historical ties
between language, sexuality, and embodiment. The conference invites
historically inflected research that builds on and broadens the
linguistic and geographical scope of queer and trans philologies, that
attends to the present afterlives of past taxonomies (Amin 2023), or
that places trans and queer heuristics in dialogue with other modes of
understanding language/sexuality/embodiment from feminist, critical
race, and postcolonial studies—whether under the rubric of
vocabularies of feeling (Spillers 1984), seductive sapphistry (Marcus
1987), nonce taxonomy (Sedgwick 1990), ephemeral archives (Muñoz
1996), histories of use (Ahmed 2019), or queer historical linguistics
(Leap 2020).

Call for Papers:

We invite 15-minute papers on:
- Historical vocabularies of sex/gender/sexuality.
- Studies of erotic/somatic wordplay, neologism, and other forms of
linguistic creativity in literary and non-literary texts.
- Trans/queer readings of grammars, dictionaries, manuals of rhetoric,
and other reference works.
- Analyses of the discursive entanglement of sexed bodies/sexual
behaviours with race, class, ability, and/or neurodiversity.

The language of presentation is English, but we encourage research on
all languages.

Please submit abstracts (150–300 words) to
queertransphilologies at gmail.com, along with your name, institution (if
any), and paper title. Please indicate whether you would be able to
present in person or virtually.

Deadline 31 October 2023.



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