Proposals for critical papers on any topic concerning Woolf’s work are welcome. A specific panel theme may be chosen, depending on the proposals received. Please note that this panel may be virtual.
How to submit
Please submit by email a cover page with name, email address, mailing address, phone number, professional affiliation, and title of paper, and a second anonymous page containing a 250-word paper proposal, with title, to Emily M. Hinnov, ehinnov@ccsnh.edu, by Monday, Aug. 26.
In today’s world, difference and diversity are under threat. For the second year in a row, the Outside/rs conference, promises to help enhance the understanding of their importance.
According to its mission statement, “Outside/rs aims to build a common understanding of the challenges in accounting for ‘outsider’ groups. We want to have conversations about what Outside/Inside means in relation to gender, sex, queerness and beyond.”
About Outside/rs 2023
Outside/rs 2023 is a hybrid postgraduate and community conference, scheduled for June 9-11 and hosted at the University of Sussex. The three-day event will be held in-person and online. This year’s theme is “Solidarity with/in the community.”
This conference is organized by a group of postgraduate students, with support from the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton.
As the organizers write: “We are currently in a period of greater divides and contestation within our society, especially when it comes to those who exist in queer, marginal or dissident relations to normativity in its various guises.
“This feeling of division and the fight for solidarity both inside and outside our communities is a common experience for queer, trans or LGBTQIA+ people, as well as BIPOC communities, disabled and neuro-diverse people, working class and colonised populations, and others still.”
The conference attempts to answer the following questions:
What does solidarity and contestation mean for LGBTQIA+ people and other groups?
How can we understand and challenge the impact of solidarity and contestation on our lives and communities?
What can we do about the solidarity/contestation divide, can we bring it down, and is ‘solidarity’ even possible?
Submit a proposal
Conference organizers welcome proposals from PhD. researchers, along with those who work, create or volunteer in the LGBTQIA+ community (including in intersection with other communities or issues).
Proposals for papers, or workshops should be limited to a 300-word abstract and sent, along with a brief bio, by Friday, Feb. 10, to: outsiders_conference@yahoo.com. Papers on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group are welcomed.
For more information
Email outsiders_conference@yahoo.com. Registration will open soon.
When: April 1-2, 2022 Where: University of Brighton, with hybrid delivery What: Outside/rs 2022 isa conference that platforms those researching and working with themes of sex, gender, queerness, community and exclusions. Who: If you are a postgraduate researcher, early career researcher, or live, work or create in a marginalised community, then please join the conference in April, either online or in-person at the University of Brighton. Register Call for Papers/Participants: Due Jan. 9, 2022
Conference Theme
For those who exist in queer, marginal, or dissident relations to normativity in its various guises, the ‘outside’ is a familiar place. As Virginia Woolf famously noted, to be locked out of or barred from spaces of privilege was, and still is, a common experience for women. This is also a common experience for queer, trans or LGBTQIA+ people, as well as BIPOC communities, disabled and neurodiverse people, working class and colonised populations, and many others.
Keynotes
Dr. S.N. Nyeck, author of African(a) Queer Presence and the Routledge Handbook of African Queer Studies, virtual keynote
Ulrika Dahl, author of Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities, in-person keynote.
Queer Bloomsbury Panel
The conference will include a panel on Queer Bloomsbury. This will be an online panel on Friday, April 1, and will comprise three presentations (20 minutes each) followed by a half hour discussion/Q&A. The panel will include Madelyn Detloff (Miami University), Jane Goldman (University of Glasgow) and Samson Dittrich (University of Sussex) and will be chaired by Marielle O’Neill (Leeds Trinity University).
Submit an abstract
Conference organizers encourage postgraduate, early-career researchers, and community members to submit a paper on a topic of their choice relevant to one issue, or more than one, to look at, for example, the intersections of class, race and queerness. Read more about submission guidelines in the Call for Papers.
Please send abstracts of 300 words to outsiders2022@gmail.com. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so include all personal information (e.g., name), in the body of the submission email only. Please also include whether you are submitting for the virtual or in-person conference, and your preference for which day. The deadline for the submission of abstracts and panel proposals is Jan. 9, 2022.
Get more information
For all enquiries and to join the mailing list, please email: outsiders2022@gmail.com
