Mind the Gap 2023: Disrupting Divisions

Mind the Gap

An interdisciplinary conference on LGBTQIA+ research and community. All schedule timings BST

Online (Day 1) and King's College London - Council Room (Day 2)

S﻿aturday 29 July - Online (Birkbeck, University of London)09.00-09.15	Registration + Welcome09.15-10.30 	Academic Keynote: "Ambivalent Masculinities in Contemporary Film and TV: On Lesbian, Queer (and) Trans Representability" - Clara Bradbury-Rance (King's College London)10.30-10.45	Comfort Break10.45-12.00	Panel 1: LGBTQ+ Human Rights: Centering Migration, Conflict, and Solidarity"Queer Protection: (En)countering Protection Strategies in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp" - Gabriel/le du Plessix (University of Warwick)"When I Think of You, My Homeland, My Heart Can Only Cry”: Exploring Queer Ukrainian Migrants' Diasporic Consciousness and Physical Engagements with Ukrainian Diaspora Communities" - Freya Proudman (University College London)Micro Rainbow (Community/Activist Speaker)12.00-12.15		Comfort Break12.15-13.45		Panel 2: Celebrating Trans Power: Resistance and Care"Transgender Resistance on the Digital Dancefloor: Counteracting 'Anti-Trans' Narratives and Violent Data Politics by Imagining a Digital Transgender Epistemology" - Christoffer Koch Andersen (University of Cambridge)"Care In/And Community: Supporting Trans Young Artists at American Opera Companies" - Danielle Buonaiuto (City University of New York)London Trans+ Pride (Community/Activist Speaker)Black Trans Foundation (Community/Activist Speaker)13.45-14.30	Lunch Break14.30-15.45		Panel 3: Educating Queerly: What We Can Learn from LGBTQ+ Learning"Queer(y)ing STEM Education Spaces: A Poetic Retrospective Autoethnography of a Queer Student's Lived Experiences in Australian Postsecondary Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education" - Phil Kairns (Monash University)"School Librarians and LGBT+ Students" - Bérengère Stassin (Université de Lorraine), Emilie Lechenaut (Université de Lorraine), and Elodie Géas (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)"Queerly Joyful Practices in Calgary, Alberta's Public Schools" - Sarah Beech (University of Calgary)15.45-16.00	Comfort Break16.00-17.15		Panel 4: Viral Considerations: Rethinking Health and Community"Like a Virus: Tactile Kinship in Queer Performance Art" - Abhisek Pal (Jadavpur University)"Queer/Crip Killjoys, Oracles, and the 'Post-Pandemic' Stage of COVID-19" - Moira Armstrong (Birkbeck, University of London)''What's in a Word: Mpox, Monkeypox and the Language We Need to Destigmatize LGBTQ+ People Experiencing Illness" - Andrew Kaye Kauffmann (Community/Activist Speaker)17.15-17.30		Comfort Break17.30-18.45		Panel 5: Being Political: Queer Understandings of Ethics, Solidarity, and Justice"The Ethics of Outing" - Samantha Leyerle (City University of New York)"Queer Futures and Intergenerational Solidarity in Spain" - Angela Acosta (Davidson College)"Disrupting Cissexual Difference and Cisgendered Embodiment: A Transfeminist Analysis of Elizabeth Grosz’s Incorporeal Ontoethics" - İlkan Can İpekçi (Sabancı Üniversitesi)18.45-19.00	Close for the Day*﻿**S﻿unday 30 July - In-Person/Hybrid (King's College London)10.30-10.45	Registration + Welcome10.45-12.00	Panel 6: Authentically LGBTQ+ Online: Self-Expression on Digital Media"Instagram Representation of Hijra Identities from Bangladesh" - Tanvir Alim (University of Glasgow)"Repression, Resistance and Revolution: The Politics of International Queer Communication in Southeast Asia" - Russell Yap (Nanyang Technological University)"Decolonising Cyberqueer Spaces: Assertions and Negotiations in Indian Online Communities" - Tanvi Kanchan (SOAS, University of London)12.00-12.15		Comfort Break12.15-13.30		Panel 7: Disruptive Representation?: Popular Queer Constructions and Challenges in Literature, Film, and TV"Queer Translation in Lilting" - Cheng-Chai Chiang (University of California, Berkeley)"Mad Wilderness: An EcoGothic Reading of the 'Crazy Lesbian' Trope in Machado’s The Resident - Tara Labovich (Independent Researcher)"Queer (In)Coherence: Thai BLs, Affective Power, and Textual Disruptions" - Victoria K. Pistivsek (King's College London)13.30-15.00	Lunch Break15.00-16.15		Panel 8: Finding (Safe) Spaces: Navigating and Queering Cityscapes"Mapping Urban Indian Queer Spaces as Sites of Resistance against Capitalist Notions of Development" - Udhriti Sarkar (SOAS, University of London)"Queer Liberation and Collective Effervescence: The Everyday Utopias of Anti-Racist Sexual Cultures" - Tiago Machado Costa (University of Nottingham)"Disrupting Understandings of Safe Spaces for Singaporean Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (GBQ+) Men: Creating or Engaging with Invisibilised Spaces to Remain Safe" - RainbowAsia (Community/Activist Speaker)16.15-16.30		Comfort Break16.30-17.45		Panel 9: How To Parent: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Raising Children"Navigating Time and Relationships: Gay Men’s Transnational Reproductive Journey towards Fatherhood - Jung Chen (University of Cambridge)"Transgressing and Disrupting Boundaries and Binaries: Exploring the Experiences of Bisexual+ Mothers in Queer and Non-Queer Parenting Spaces" - Ellen Davenport-Pleasance (University College London)M﻿y Surrogacy Journey (Community/Activist Speaker)17.45-18.00		Closing Statement18.00-18.30 	Disruptive Keynote: LGBTQ+ Choir Rebelle Voices18.30-20.30 	Reception*﻿**

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