28-30 MAY 2020, VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM (GMT+01:00)
__Symposium Program
THU, 28 MAY / ACTIVATION (DAY) COMPONENT &
SYMPOSIUM OPENING NIGHT
10:00-11:00 ‘ReCast LIVE ON-AIR’ (Audio installation transmitted live
via No Bounds Radio) by Andrea Ray🔗 (LIVE FROM LONDON + NEW YORK)
11:30-13:00 *Workshop: ‘Reimagine Family, Redistributing Care’
by ReUnion Network🔗 (LIVE FROM ROTTERDAM + LIMOGES)
19:00-20:30 Symposium Opening Night:
‘Shaking the Habitual’ (video) by D. Tzanou & A. Voutsina
& Opening Remarks by the Organisers;
Keynote Lecture: ’Queering desire through seren-
dipity and a_sociality’ by Antke Engel🔗 (LIVE FROM BERLIN)
FRI, 29 MAY / SYMPOSIUM DAY I
11:00-11:15 Introduction to the Day by the Organisers
11:15-13:15 Exchange #1: Refusing, Resisting, Expanding:
The Reorganisation of Life
With Genevieve Costello, Anna Davidson,
Cynthia Montier, Ophélia Naessens, and Andrea Ray🔗
13:15-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-16:00 Exchange #2: Show Me the Body
With Denise Ackerl, Marcus Bell, and Anna Segal🔗
16:00-16:15 Comfort Break
16:15-17:30 Keynote Lecture (Interactive): 'Queer Diaspora: Intimacy, Desire & Refusal' by Chandra Frank🔗 (LIVE FROM LA)
17:30-18:00 Long Break
18:00-19:30 Keynote Lecture: ’The Vicissitudes of Pleasure:
Between the Machines of Desire and the Politics of
the Good’ by Keti Chukhrov🔗 (LIVE FROM MOSCOW)
SAT, 30 MAY / SYMPOSIUM DAY II
10:30-10:45 Introduction to the Day by the Organisers
10:45-11:45 Exchange #3: Transgressive Desires
With Jacob Breslow and Christian Klesse🔗
11:45-12:00 Comfort Break
12:00-13:30 Keynote Lecture: ’Realistically Impossible: the Magic of
Social Change’ by Mijke van der Drift🔗 (LIVE FROM LONDON)
13:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 *Workshop: ‘Queer desires, queer Marxisms’
led by Nat Raha🔗 (LIVE FROM EDINBURGH)
16:00-16:15 Comfort Break
16:15-17:45 Exchange #4: Love Letters
With Phoebe Eccles, Caroline Harris,
Sorana Santos and Nadira Wallace🔗
17:45-18:00 Comfort Break
18:00-18:45 Closing Remarks by the Organisers & ‘How close can we get to each other when we’re wet? Or - Membering the Nightwitches’ (Performance) by Lou Lou Sainsbury🔗
20:00-22:00 'I approached poetry, but only to miss it':
Film Screening @Close-Up Film Centre curated by
Minou Norouzi + post-screening discussion with writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques🔗 -- Cancelled due to COVID-19
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Please note:
- All times are in London (GMT+01:00) time zone;
- Events marked with an asterisk require special registration, as spaces are limited. Please contact the organisers if you would like to participate.