Violence, Solidarity, Affect: A Workshop on Transnational Genders and Sexualities

Organiser: Jin Haritaworn, LSE:Gender Institute

8th May, 2009 from 2pm

(limited places so booking essential through Hazel Johnstone)

How do queer subjects, knowledges and aesthetics circulate in contexts of war, racism, nationalism, occupation, and European accession? What narratives of violence, solidarity and affect accompany sexually and gender non-conforming movements and mobilities? In this afternoon workshop, we invite you to explore three different sites of transnational genders and sexualities with us – of memory and violence in queer immigrant politics in Israel/Palestine, transnational activism around LGBT politics in Poland, and affect in the German hate crimes debate.

The session is chaired by Clare Hemmings, Director of the LSE:Gender Institute.

Programme

2pm    Coffee, welcome

2.30pm

The Currency of Injury and the Raciology of Victimhood: Queerness, Nationalism, Humanness
Adi Kuntsman, Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, Manchester University

3.00pm

Transnational Activism, Sexual Politics and the Question of Solidarity

Jon Binnie, Environmental and Geographical Science, Manchester Metropolitan University

Christian Klesse, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University

3.30pm

Alienating Affect: The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes
Jin Haritaworn, LSE:Gender Institute

4pm     Break

4.15pm Respondents

Silvia Posocco

Jennifer Petzen

Sarah Lamble

5.30pm     -ends-

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