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Queer and The Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings
February 20, 2021 - February 21, 2021
A two-day conference running on Zoom on the 20th-21st February, hosted by the Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity (University of Oxford). You can find the full program, complete with abstracts and panel times (UTC), on the project site. In order to attend and receive the conference Zoom link on 19 Feb, please register your interest here.
DAY ONE: SATURDAY, 20 FEB 2021
10.30-11.00: WELCOME
11.00-12.00: KEYNOTE LECTURE
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Mathura Umachandran, “Carrier Bag Theory of Queer Feeling, or, Coming to Critique”
(suggested reading: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin)
12.00-12.15: BREAK (zoom room stays open)
12.15-2.15: PANEL 1. The Institution Cannot Be Queered: Caring, Dismantling, Re-imagining
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Emer O’Hanlon, “‘Truth is no Apollo Belvedere, no formal thing’: Querying a queer icon, re-appropriating Apollo”
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Donna Marcus, “Right Distance: Towards an Ethic of Care in Queer Translation of Pāli Texts”
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Kit Pyne-Jaeger, “Half My Life I Leave Behind: Reconciling the Academic and Affective with Oscar Wilde and A.E. Housman”
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Rhea Stark, “Imagining Queer Futures in the Museum”
2.15-3.15: MEAL BREAK (optional breakout rooms)
3.15-4.45: PANEL 2. Queer Participatory Methods & Media
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Neha Rahman, “Not to me, not if it’s you: (Fan)Fictional Intimacies on the Internet and in the Imagination”
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Lena Barsky, “I WOULD KNOW HIM IN DEATH // HELLO, STRANGER: Achilles, Patroclus, and Fanfiction Refracted”
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Izzy Levy, “‘Wiping Away the Paint’: Drag, Euripides’ Helen, and Epistemologies of the Body in Performance”***
4.45-5.15: BREAK (zoom room stays open)
5.15-6.00: PANEL 3. Identifications & Disidentifications
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Joe Watson, “Worlds at Angles: Sappho, Cavafy and the Queer Potentialities of Utopia”
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Oliver Baldwin, “The House of Hecuba: Tragic/Queer Disidentifications of Colour and the Siege of AIDS”
6:00-6.15: DAY ONE CLOSING REMARKS
DAY TWO: SUNDAY, 21 FEB 2021
11:45-12:00: WELCOME
12.00-1.30: PANEL 4. Queer Classicisms & Problems of Scholarly Reception
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Claire Barnes, “‘Now that the wind has deprived the statues of their fig leaves I can hardly bear to look out’ – queer appropriations of Edwardian Classicism”
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Toni Andres, “Trans Catullus: Reconsidering the Legacy of Reception & the Role of the Audience”
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Rioghnach Sachs, “Repositioning Sappho in the History of Sexuality”
1.30-2.30: LUNCH BREAK (optional breakout rooms)
2.30-4.00: PANEL 5. Queer Bodies In & Out of Time
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Lee Hansen, “Crip/Queer Times and Arthur Golding’s Metamorphosis (1567)”
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Marchella Ward, “Cripping Ancestorship for Queer Time: On Refusing the Genealogy of the Classical”
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Enrique Huelva Jiménez & Marta Martín Díaz, “EpiQUEERean Bodies in Revolt: An Audiovisual Rendering of Lucretius’ & Jarman’s Work”***
4.00-4.30: BREAK (zoom room stays open)
4.30-6.00: PANEL 6. Disrupting Mythologies, Philologies & Dramaturgies
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Vanessa Stovall, “Myths/t/ripping Persephone: Queering katabasis, cosmetics, and mythopoesis in Kieron Gillan and Jamie McKelvie’s ‘The Wicked + The Divine’”
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David Youd, “Polymorphously Per-verse: Queer Metrology in Euripides’ Orestes”
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Emma Pauly, “Epiphany, Making Manifest, and Other Dramatic Ways to Come Out: Engaging with Bacchae While Non-Binary”***
6.00-6.15: BREAK (zoom room stays open)
6.15-6.45: FINAL PERFORMANCE
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Ash Blight, stained with red juice***
6:45-7.00: DAY TWO CLOSING REMARKS
*** indicates a performance and/or multimedia provocation
Organisers
Marcus Bell, Eleonora Colli and Nicolette D’Angelo (University of Oxford)
Finally, for any questions, email us at oxfordqueerclassical@gmail.com. Alternatively, get in touch with the organisers at marcus.bell@classics.ox.ac.uk, eleonora.colli@classics.ox.ac.uk, or nicolette.dangelo@classics.ox.ac.uk. Social media hashtag: #QATC2021.