Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

1st Global Conference

Friday 13th May 2011 – Sunday 15th May 2011
Warsaw, Poland

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Friday 13th May 2011
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
Margaret Breen, Malwina Degórska

14.00
Session 1: Literary Queer Identities 1
Chair: Beata Zawadka

Queer Translation: Prime-Stevenson’s Imre (1906) and Emergence of Homosexual Identity
Margaret Breen

Representations of “Traditional” Homoeroticisms in Contemporary Indonesian Fiction and the Queering of Authenticity
Alicia Izharuddin

Queer Interpretations of Fiction Literature: Application of the Developmental Stages of the Coming-Out Process
Ashley Haurand

15.30
Coffee

16.00

Session 2: Queering Cyberspace
Chair: Joanna reinmann

“Acting Out”: What We Can Gain by Treating Hetero-Queer Fantasy and  R/T as Ritual Performance
Dean West

Performing Queerness in Cyberspace: An Analysis of Visual Representation on Internet Dating Sites
Stephanie Mannis

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Saturday 14th May 2011
09.00

Session 3: Queer History & Theory
Chair: Beatrice Gusmano

Scrutinizing Historiography: From Pederasty to Sodomy to Homosexuality to LGBT/Queer Sexualities
Fernando Cascais

Is Nonce the New Queer?
Tracey Yeadon-Lee

Queer Theory and the “Female Homosexual” of Psychoanalysis
Anne Worthington

10.30
Coffee

11.00

Session 4: Queer Body as Text
Chair: Ed Green

Philoctetes and Antibodies, or the Vanishing Acts of Unconventional Queer Bodies
Gian Pietro Leonardi

Queer Junk
Ladislav Zikmund-Lender

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Literary Queer Identities 2
Chair: Margaret Breen

Subdue Our Fears:  Displacing Homophobia in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Gregory Luke Chwala

‘…so much to say, and little of it speakable’:  Closeted Queer Identities in Colm Toibin’s The Master and Emma Donoghue’s The Sealed Letter
Malwina Degorska

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Queer Performance
Chair: Malwina Degórska

Disidentification: Alternative Sex/Gender Identities Through Sadomasochistic Praxes
Ingrid Olson

“To Understand  Bad Taste One Must Have Very Good Taste.” Dissecting the Queer Oeuvre of John Waters
Beata Zawadka,  Joanna Reimann

Queering Continuity, Or, How to Inherit 1970s Lesbian Feminism
Zohar Weiman Kelman

17.30
Sessions End

Sunday 15th May 2011
09.00

Session 7: Queer Identities
Chair: Ingrid Olsen

(In)coherent Identities: Epistemic Dilemmas, Queer Theory and Bisexuality
Maria Gurevich

Radical Rehabilitation: Representations of Maria Komornicka/Piotr Włast in the Works of Izabela Filipiak
Jodi Grieg

Just a Queer Little Love Story: Skins and the Naomily Phenomenon
Anne- Marie Cook

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Queering the Music
Chair: Stephanie Mannis

Popular Music and Queer World-making
Jodie Taylor

The Opera Closet: Ardor, Shame, Queer Confession
Monica Pearl

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Queer Society: Case Studies
Chair: Emmanuel Fernando

“Queer Lives – Some Notes on Non-normative Sexual Constructions and Identities in the Lived Experience of Men Living in Rural Indonesia who have Sex with Men”
Edward Green

The Structure of Sexual Casual Encounters between Men in Italy: A Case Study
Stefano Ramello

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 10: Queer Identities 2
Chair: Anne Worthington

(Un)Queering the Intersex Body in Elite Sports
A.C.G Brömdal

Parenting Practices in a Lesbian Family in Russia
Alisa Zhabenko

What’s Queer about Queer Breeders?
Amalia Ziv

17.30
Development Meeting  and Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends