quickanddirty IV: Call For Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

quickanddirty IV:
The DC Queer Studies
Graduate Symposium

part of the DC Queer Studies Symposium
at the University of Maryland, College Park

April 17 & 18, 2008

Deadline for submission of materials: January 15, 2008

DC Queer Studies invites submission of proposals for 15-minute presentations in quickanddirty IV: The DC Queer Studies Graduate Symposium. Students enrolled in any DC-area graduate program are encouraged to submit proposals for inclusion in the program. We welcome proposals on any aspect of LGBT Studies, queer theory, critical approaches to sexualities, and intersectionality. Maryland’s program in LGBT Studies has held a graduate symposium for the past three years. This year that event is being opened up to students from other institutions and held in conjunction with the first scholarly program being arranged by DC Queer Studies, a group of faculty from schools in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area.

Selected participants will be notified by February 1, 2008.

Proposals must include name, affiliation, e-mail address, title of paper, a 250-word abstract, and 1-2 page CV. Please send materials by e-mail attachment (Word or PDF only) by January 15, 2008 to lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu. Put “quickanddirty” in the subject line of your message.

The DC Queer Studies Symposium is a two-day event bringing together scholars from the Washington, DC area to exchange, support, and cultivate new ways of engaging with LGBT/Q/Sexuality Studies across the disciplines. April 17 will include the graduate symposium and the keynote address by Roderick A. Ferguson, associate professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Minnesota, 2004). April 18 will include paper sessions and roundtable discussions featuring DC-area faculty working in LGBT/Q/Sexuality Studies.

The DC Queer Studies Symposium is hosted and sponsored by the University of Maryland and co-sponsored by American University, Georgetown University, and the George Washington University. See http://www.lgbts.umd.edu for details.