What, when & where
Crossroads of Emergency: Modern Dystopias and Imminent Futures
Spring 2021 Graduate Virtual Conference, April 23rd 2021
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stony Brook University
Will the 2020s be a decade of liberation? We are still battling a life-threatening global pandemic. The earth, the land, and skies remain victim to human capitalism and consumption. Our queer, trans, Indigenous, Black, brown, immigrant, and undocumented loved ones continue to bear the brunt of state-sanctioned colonial violence. Many have joined uprisings in which some advocate for systemic reform, some revel in the privilege of stagnancy, and others do what it takes to burn it down and begin anew. We are existing at a crossroads of emergency.
The WGSS conference committee at Stony Brook invites you to join communities of scholars to explore issues related to the crossroads of power and struggle that marginalized communities face, present ideologies and strategies of living and resisting, and contribute ideas and methodologies that promote decolonial futures.
This being an interdisciplinary conference, we welcome all proposals with reference to the conference theme ‘crossroads of emergency,’ and encourage paper presentations, performances, creative writing, and short film submissions that center the following:
Sexual and reproductive (in)justice
Organizing, activism, and social movements
Migrant trajectories and im/mobility regimes
Contagion, race, and gender
Indigenous sovereignty
Disability, access, and health
Decolonizing futures
Queer futurity
Environmental issues
Deadline & how to apply
The conference committee at WGSS Stony Brook looks forward to receiving your abstract of 200-250 words by March 1st 2021 at 5 pm EST! Please send your submissions to kai.breaux@stonybrook.edu.
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