Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:10:49 -1000 From: Mia H H Lam Subject: FW: Future of the Queer Past (fwd) ***************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Lesbian and Gay Studies Project [mailto:lgsp@midway.uchicago.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 1:10 PM Subject: Future of the Queer Past ***Please post this announcement on appropriate lists and forward it to individuals you think may be interested.*** CALL FOR PROPOSALS THE FUTURE OF THE QUEER PAST: A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY CONFERENCE The University of Chicago, September 14-17, 2000 Organized by the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project of the Center for Gender Studies and the Department of History of the University of Chicago, with the assistance of an external advisory committee.. THE FUTURE OF THE QUEER PAST, an international meeting of historians and other scholars studying historical processes from diverse disciplinary perspectives, will be held at the University of Chicago on Thursday-Sunday, September 14-17, 2000. Faculty, graduate students, artists, curators, and independent scholars studying a wide range of issues throughout the world and across history are expected to participate. The conference offers historians, other interested scholars, and artists a rare and critically important opportunity to meet one another and to collectively chart the development of the field, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and explore new directions for its future. The conference's transnational thematic organization also encourages historians to reassess the periodizations and explanatory frameworks they have developed for particular periods and national histories by placing them in a broader historical and transnational context, as well as to track and explore the ramifications of the transnational circulation of people, discourses, and social movements, and to compare developments in different localities and explore the connections among them. We also intend to make the performance and critical analysis of creative interventions into popular historical memory a central part of the conference, and to bring scholars and artists concerned with historical issues into conversation with one another. We invite proposals for papers and panels that examine particular case studies and phenomena (especially in innovative juxtapositions), propose new conceptual frameworks or periodizations, reflect on historiographical and theoretical issues in the field, or rethink conventional historical narratives from a queer perspective. We also invite filmmakers, curators, and other artists working on historical themes to present or reflect on their work. Proposals for panels (consisting of three papers and a commentary) are encouraged, but individual paper and performance proposals will receive equal consideration. The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2000, and the program will be announced by May 15. Subsidized airfares and housing may be available to a limited number of artists, graduate students, and foreign participants, but since our funds are extremely limited most participants should not expect such subsidies. A more detailed call for proposals, additional information about the conference, and procedures for submitting proposals are available on the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project website: You may also direct inquiries to The Lesbian and Gay Studies Project History Conference The University of Chicago 5835 S. Kimbark Chicago IL 60637, USA **********