[DIGRA Spain] CFP: Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games International Conference.

[Juan Francisco Belmonte Avila]

Estimada comunidad de DIGRA Spain,

Comparto el *Call for Papers* de un congreso online que estoy
co-organizando. También tenéis acceso a la información desde la página web
del congreso (http://eventos.um.es/go/queertemp). Espero que os resulte
interesante y que podamos ver (aunque sea por cámara) a muchas personas
pertenecientes a esta red en diciembre. Si tenéis cualquier duda no dudéis
en contactar conmigo (juanfrancisco.belmonte en um.es).

Salud y abrazos

Call for participations: Queer Temporalities in Literature, Cinema, and
Video Games International Conference. 2-4 December, 2021.

Theme

While the study of space has been part of the Queer Studies agenda for a
very long time, time has been a more recent addition. This International
Conference sees the study of time as being central to the understanding of
identity configurations. Studying time as a producer and reproducer of
identities can be approached as the unearthing of past events, the
imagining of other futures, or as the exploration of time as a formal
factor that shapes cultural texts. While conceptions of time as something
linear, stable, singular, and unequivocal favor existing discourses about
equally unequivocal identities, approaches to time as being defined by
multiple rhythms, interruptions and uncertainties allow for other
identities and cultural / social practices to come to life in time or
through specific representations of time.

We invite scholars from a variety of backgrounds (Cinema, Cultural, Game,
and Literary Studies) to think about time and its impact on processes of
queer world-making through its relation with memory, futurities,
discontinuities, and expanded approaches to everydayness. Some of the
topics this conference is interested in exploring are:

-Identities represented through fragmentation and temporal rootlessness;
temporal notions of ‘otherness’.

-Narrative and/or formal uses of synchronicity, serendipity, and
nonlinearity.

-Temporal rhizomes; approaches to time as being multiple and
multidirectional.

-Fluid time(s), fluid identity(ies).

-Instances of genre/identity bending through time.

-Human, transhuman, post-human, and non-human relations with, in, and
through time: 4th Industrial Revolution, Anthropocene, object-oriented
studies of time vs. ‘fleshy’ temporalities, cyberpunk and non-Western
futurisms.

-Failure, interruption, fragmentation, repetition, loss, and loops:
Non-linearities and temporal dead-ends.

-Medium-dependent representations of time and their impact on identity
production.

-Expanded visions of everydayness.

-Time and “telling�: points of view and narration, narrated/narrative
times, personal time, and time as form.

-Times that are (not); times that were (not); times that will (not) be;
times we wish (never) existed: reconstructions of hidden pasts, utopia,
dystopia, futurism, and trauma.

-Myth and fantasy as identity engagements through time.

-When time ends: catastrophes, eco-crises, and apocalypses.

Venue

In view of the current pandemic, this conference will be held fully online.
Accepted proposals will be placed in panels formed according to similar
themes, approaches, and interests. All panels will consist of four
15-minute-long live interventions followed by 20 minutes of Q&A for the
four panelists. Each panel will have its own Zoom session for panelists and
audience members to join. Panelists will not be able to participate in the
conference by submitting pre-recorded videos of their papers.

Keynote Speakers

We are extremely pleased to announce our keynote speakers:

-Professor Elizabeth Freeman, Department of English, UC Davis.

https://english.ucdavis.edu/people/esfreema

-Professor Glyn Davis, School of Design, The University of Edinburgh.

https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-glyn-davis

-Professor Bonnie (Bo) Ruberg, Department of Film & Media Studies, UC
Irvine.

https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6554

Submissions & important dates

We ask scholars wishing to participate in the conference to submit a single
file in .pdf, .doc, .docx or .odt format containing their proposals, their
names and affiliation, contact information, and a short biographical
statement.  Proposals should be around 350 words long (with a 15%
flexibility) while the short bios should not exceed 150 words. Submissions
should be sent to queertemp en gmail.com.

End of the CFP: June 10, 2021.

Decisions on submissions: July 16, 2021.

Conference registration: July 17-November 1, 2021.

Conference dates: December 2-4, 2021

Organizers & venue

This conference is being organized by members of the Research Project
PGC2018-095393-BI00 Temporalidades Queer en la Cultura Anglófona
Contemporánea (Literatura, Cine y Videojuegos) [Queer Temporalities in
Contemporary Anglophone Cultures (Literature, Cinema, and Video Games)]
funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de
Investigación). The academic host for the conference is the Department of
English Studies at the University of Murcia, Spain.

Post-conference publications

Closer to the conference, depending on the number of submissions received,
we will share more information on the publishing of edited, peer-reviewed,
volumes made of expanded versions of the conference papers. Our intention
is to edit a full issue of an international academic journal as well as an
edited volume in book format. Participating in the conference does not
guarantee or require participation in the edited projects.

Participation & fees

Accepted speakers will need to register by November 1, 2021 and pay a
non-refundable participation fee of 35 €. More details on how to register
for the conference will be announced soon.

Conference chairs

Juan F. Belmonte �vila, University of Murcia.

Estíbaliz Encarnación Pinedo, Technical University of Cartagena.

María Ferrández San Miguel, University of Zaragoza.

Organizing team

Cristina Hurtado Botella, University of Murcia.

�ngela López García, University of Murcia.

Corpus Navalón Guzmán, University of Murcia.

María Piqueras Pérez, University of Murcia.


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