A one-day research symposium on sexuality and the politics of place-making and place-taking.
10:00 - 10:30 Registration and Coffee
10:30 - 11:00 Welcome
11:00 - 12:30 Panel One: Inhabiting Sexual Politics
- B Camminga (Wits) – Sistaz of the Castle: Gloss and Glamour in the Shadow of Colonialism
- Talia Meer – Encountering Desire: Feeling Sexuality, Race, Class and Gender in the Street
- Sam Ritholtz (Oxford) – Queer/Trans Displacements in the United States and the Theoretical Borders of Forced Migration Studies
- Jo Sauvaire and Noemi Stella (École Normale Supérieure) – Down-and-Out in Paris: Surviving as a Homeless Queer, a Compulsory Performance of Gender and Sexuality
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Panel Two: Subjects and Spaces of Displacement
- Melissa Chacón (LSE) – Everyday Dis-Placements
- Cynthia Citlallin Delgado (NYU) – Performing in the Interstice: The Space-Making Practices of Casa Roshell
- Flavia Meireles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) – The Political Life of Marielle Franco
- Alyosxa Tudor (SOAS) – The Loss that Cannot be Recovered: Diaspora Nationalism, Melancholic Masculinity and Anti-Nationalist Queerings
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00 Panel Three: Queer Politics of Accommodation
- Daniel Conway (Westminster) – Contesting Conceptions of the LGBTQ+ Community at Hong Kong Migrants Pride: Queering Globalization and Neoliberal Space
- Busisiwe Deyi (University of Pretoria) – You’re Not Gay if You Play with Girls: Exploring Heterosexuality as Property in the Regulation of African Refugees’ Access to Asylum
- Aydan Greatrick (UCL) – The Theatre of Queer Asylum: Queer-Led Humanitarian Responses in Lebanon and Germany
- Abeera Khan (SOAS) – Reading Sideways, Resisting Queer Accommodations: A Critique of the Queer Muslim Response to the Birmingham Protests
5:00 - 6:00 Break
6:00 - 7:30 Keynote:
- Zethu Matebeni (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) – The Way Kungakhona: Black, Queer, Out of Place and In Place
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