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SUMMARY:Queer Hispanisms now - events@crassh.cam.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTION:Queerness is\, among many other things\, change\; therefore\, 
 a queer gaze needs to be aware of mutations and deviations. In their funda
 mental essay ‘What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?’ (2005)\, David 
 L. Eng\, Jack Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz asked themselves a criti
 cal question: given all the achievements and the preponderance of identity
  politics in social\, political\, and academic discourses\, what are the n
 ew paths Queer Theories should embrace? “The contemporary mainstreaming 
 of gay and lesbian identity —as a mass-mediated consumer lifestyle and e
 mbattled legal category— demands a renewed queer studies ever vigilant t
 o the fact that sexuality is intersectional\, not extraneous to other mode
 s of different”\, the authors claim (1).\n\nQueer Hispanists have hither
 to explored the state of the issue and the new divergences of the discipli
 ne\, in volumes like ¿Entiendes? Queer Readings\, Hispanic Writings (1995
 )\, Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998)\, and Queer Iberia. Sexualities\
 , Cultures\, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (1999).
  But what happens to Queer Hispanisms Now? Have Queer Studies in the field
  of Hispanism transcended the initial emphasis on the sociocultural outpou
 ring of desire and sexuality and its radical potential? How can a queer ga
 ze articulate crossings and intersections between the different territorie
 s and cultures included within the field (Peninsular Spanish\, Catalan\, B
 asque\, Spanish Latin America\, Portugal\, Brazil\, Native Cultures)?\n\nT
 he panels at this conference will be organised around critical debates cur
 rently taking place in the field of Queer Studies. The panellists will be 
 invited to contribute to those debates by exploring the intersections betw
 een queerness and Hispanism.\n\nIt is time to think about Queer Hispanisms
  Now.
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\,  SG1 &amp\; 2
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