"I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke." - Søren Kierkegaard
In 2016 and 2017, LGBT homicides more than doubled those of previous years. In 2017, the US President Donald Trump attempted to ban transgender military personnel via twitter. The Doomsday clock is set at two minutes to midnight. In response, the Queer Cultures Research Seminar series (University of Cambridge) is holding a one day conference to address queer engagements with and resistances to the 'end times'.
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Keynote speakers: Prof. Sally Munt (University of Sussex): "Gay Shame in a Geopolitical Context"
Dr. Bogdan Popa (University of Cambridge): "Slavery after the End of Time"
Other papers will include:
'Louise Glück's "The End of Time": Achilles Queer Time and Place', Dr Mary Kate Azcuy
'The End: Spectres of Subjunctive Subjectivity in the Trinity Apocalypse and the Ovide moralisé', Eleanor Chapman
'Medieval Visions of the End Times', Moss Pepe
'Haunted Framing: Haunted Framing: Picturing the Gay Male Figure in Post AIDS North America', Olivia Klevorn
'"Bound in Body. Gagged by the Present": Disinheritance and Fantasy in Juliana Huxtable’s There Are Certain Facts That Cannot Be Disputed', Bryony White
'Rights through Resistance: What LGBTQI+ Movements can Learn from Civil Rights Movements in History', Deepa Iyer
'How queer is this? Reclaiming the joy of free women', Prof. Susan Rudy
'Non-binary Futures', Charles Ledbetter
'Gay plants', Kay Cameron Tickets are free but must be booked to be granted admission:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queering-the-end-times-tickets-46140662965
