CFP: The Fifth Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium

Delany at 70: Honoring the Life & Work of Samuel R. Delany

In recognition of Delany’s wide-ranging influence on queer studies scholarship, the symposium takes themes prominent in his work as its point of departure. We are eager to invite papers dedicated to Delany’s diverse body of writings, but we also encourage proposals that address any of the following (or related) points of contact with key preoccupations of Delany’s work:

• Black and queer cultural politics
• Crossing boundaries: cross-class contact, private/public divides, the dynamics of normativity and respectability
• Landscapes: utopia, dystopia, heterotopia, desire, lust
• Queer time: futurity, potentiality, paradox, anniversaries, commemorations
• Queer/ing visions: reflection, refraction, mythology, memory, language, perception
• Geographies of power: settler colonialism, racialization, territorialization, gentrification
• World-making and undoing: fantasy, performativity, self-elaboration, autobiography, selfhood, abjection

Proposals for 15-minute presentations should include name, affiliation, e-mail address, title of paper, a 250-word abstract, and a 1-2 page CV. Please send materials by e-mail attachment (Word or PDF only) by February 6, 2012 to lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu. Put “Submission for Delany at 70” in the subject line of your message. For more information, contact JV Sapinoso at sapinoso@umd.edu. Selected participants will be notified by February 27, 2012.