We will list and update this site about conferences related to LGBTQIA issues and interests. Also listed below are calls for papers and presentations for future conferences, as well as a section with calls for written submissions. If you are interested in attending a conference, please contact us about how *WE CAN HELP FUND YOUR TRIP*.
Out for Work National Conference -September 28-30th, 2012 , - Chicago, IL Out for Work functions as a complimentary component in the total educational experience of LGBT students, primarily in the development, evaluation, initiation and implementation of career plans and opportunities. OFW’s programs, resources and services provide assistsance to students in the cultivation and enhancement of skills to explore career options, master search techniques and strategies and research employment opportunities.
2nd Anarchist Studies Network Conference - September 3-5, 2012 – Loughborough University, United Kingdom The Anarchist Studies Network (http://anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/) is hosting a conference to acknowledge, celebrate and deepen these diverse efforts to understand and transform our world, our lives. The organizers hope to have sessions focused on Anarchist/Queer, Anarchism & Feminist, and Radical Political identities.
Radically Gay: The Life and Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay - September 27-30, 2012, New York City
In celebration of the centennial of the birth of LGBT pioneer Harry Hay, CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies at CUNY) and the Harry Hay Centennial Committee invite proposals for a broad-reaching conference exploring key facets of LGBT life and their evolution over the last six decades.
October
Translating Identity Conference 2012 - Dates TBD, 2012 - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Opening its doors to the public for the tenth time in nine years for the 2011 conference, the Translating Identity Conference (TIC) explores a wide array of topics in discourses regarding gender and transgender identities, expressions, communities, and intersections. TIC is a free, student organized, non-profit conference that seeks to reach not only the University of Vermont & the Burlington community, but the nation as a whole. A one-day event, TIC has numerous sessions to choose from at any time that are directed towards people at all levels of inclusion in the trans and allied communities. This conference is a safe space for everyone to come, learn, and enjoy themselves!
National Workshop on Gender Creative Kids - October 25th-26th, 2012 – Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Concordia University will host a two-day workshop on the subject of gender creative/gender non-conforming/gender independent children. Despite the fact that a wave of national and international media reports are highlighting an increasing number of young children who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth, there are very few resources that support these children and their families in Canada. Further, there is very little research to draw on to inform the development of resources. The ‘National Workshop on Gender Creative Kids’ will be the first national forum to bring together a variety of stakeholders to begin to address this gap.
Transcending Boundaries Conference - October 26th-28th, 2012Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts
Transcending Boundaries, Inc. hosts an annual community conference to celebrate the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality and relationships. The 2012 Transcending Boundaries Conference is an open forum for people of all genders, sexual orientations and relationship statuses to teach, learn, debate and discuss the civics, issues, concerns and joys of these elements of our identities. An immersive weekend of networking, education, entertainment and social time understanding these factors within ourselves, our individual communities, and the public world in which we work and live.
The OUT & GREEK National Leadership Conference is the only conference of its kind for LGBT and ally fraternity and sorority leaders to share, network and learn strategies to create safer, more LGBT inclusive fraternity and sorority communities.
Never has there been a leadership conference to share, network and learn strategies to create safer, more LGBT inclusive fraternity and sorority communities. The conference is sponsored by the landmark Lambda 10 Project, an educational initiative of Campus Pride.
December
Spring 2012
January
The 25th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change -January 23–27, 2013 - Atlanta, Georgia
What's Creating Change? Only the premier annual organizing and skills-building event for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and their allies.
The conference is run by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and attracts more than 2,500 people from all over the country every year. Presenters and participants come from all walks of life and include members of the business community, elected officials, students, faith leaders and staff and volunteers of non-profit organizations.
Our five-day program features over 250 workshops and training sessions, four plenary sessions, and tons of networking opportunities.
The first two Pennsylvania Progressive Summits were universally hailed as the major event in the progressive calendar. The 2012 event promises to be even more dynamic.
It’s being held this year in Philadelphia, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on the weekend of February 10-12.
The Pennsylvania Progressive Summit is a major national gathering of progressive voices in Pennsylvania. The 2012 Summit will be our third—and the first in Philadelphia—with an expected 1,000 progressive leaders and activists coming together for workshops, networking and inspiration. What a powerful way to launch the year!
Organized sessions for Lav Lgs 19 will address some familiar conference themes, as well as some entirely new topics. Check the Sessions under Development page on the website for session descriptions and calls for papers and contact the session organizer(s) as your interests require. OR send in your own idea for a session or for a single-authored paper as your individual interests in lavender languages topics suggest.
One of the things that makes Lav lgs Conference unique is its “no attitude” atmosphere. The conference environment is always informal. There is ample time for discussion during the scheduled sessions and during the refreshment breaks. Conference participants represent a broad range of backgrounds—gender, sexuality, age, career-level, nationality, race/ethnicity, academic discipline, political stance, and so on. Registration fees are deliberately suppressed to ensure that conference is affordable. The conference site is accessible and, with sufficient advance notice, all events will have sign-language support. You will not feel alone, out-of-place or unloved at Lav Lgs 19.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting – Sexual Citizens, Nations, and States: Spaces of Affect, Identity, and Norm - February 24-28, 2012 – New York City, NY
A session will seek to continue a geographic engagement with the promises and perils of sexual citizenship as both an analytical concept and a political practice in the context of emerging links between, on the one hand, sexual freedom, inclusion, and tolerance and, on the other, exclusionary national identities and violent state projects.
March
The Art of Gender in Everyday Life IX - March 7-9, 2012 – Idaho State University
This conference will explore the various ways in which gender is crafted, celebrated, endured, deciphered, expressed, or, in short, the art of how it is lived on a daily basis.
Gateways, Gates, and Gatekeeping: Mentoring and Diversity as a Feminist Future Workshop - March 21st, 2012 – St. Louis, Missouri
This year’s workshop is designed to provide time and space for mentoring conversations among experts, advanced scholars, assistant professors, adjunct faculty, and graduate students as they negotiate various gateways to tenure, publication, collaboration, pedagogical innovation, interdisciplinarity, graduation, and more. As in past years, the 2012 Workshop will run all day Wednesday, with plenary speakers in the morning and collaborative roundtables in the afternoon.
Conference of the Critical Feminist Studies Division of the Cultural Studies Association - March 28-April 1, 2012 – University of California, San Diego, California
This year’s theme, ‘Culture Matters,’ calls for proposals that critically and creatively reflect on culture and ‘the material’ broadly conceived. Within CSA’s theme for the conference, this Division asks similarly of Cultural Studies’ engagement with feminism. How do we define the relationship between feminism and material culture? What does a critical feminist approach to materiality look like? What are the im/possibilities of feminist materiality? Of feminist materials? Basically, what could be historically and culturally identified as the ‘stuff’ of feminisms? Commodities, things and objects? Above all, how does a critical approach to feminism reshape notions of Cultural Studies today? Why, and how, does Critical Feminist Studies matter?
Queer Mentors in Contemporary Culture - March 28-April 1, 2012 – University of California, San Diego, California
Registration currently inactive – check website for updates and if this will go on as scheduled.
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference - March 29-31, 2012 – George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia The Politics of Justice: New Visions of Culture and Society SEWSA 2012 will bring together scholars, policy makers, artists, and activists to wrestle with ideas and strategies to move forward toward a just world in theory and practice.
Momentum: Making Waves in Sexuality, Feminism, and Relationships - March 30-April 1, 2012 – Washington, DC Geared toward anyone interested in intelligent conversations about the influence of new media on sexuality, MOMENTUM is the conference to attend in 2012. After a sold out first year in 2011, we've expanded our space, presenters and sessions and now have over 40 sessions<http://momentumcon.com/2012-sessions/> and 60 presenters <http://momentumcon.com/2012-presenters/>. Like last year, MOMENTUM will cover a wide range of viewpoints on sexuality; our jam-packed program is sure to have something of interest to everyone.
National Queer People of Color Conference - March 30- April 1, 2012, Northridge University
The Queer People of Color Conference gives people the chance to understand the diversity amongst being a person of color in the Queer community. It focuses on the social reformation, injustice, and oppression. It gives light to coming out of the closet in ethnic communitites, polticial beliefs, safe sex and HIV, and the movement of art; visual and performing . The theme of this year's conference is Fourway: Intersections of Race, Gender, Class and Sex[uality].
The Conference will bring 400 students from across the Northeast to celebrate, educate, and empower LGBT and Ally student leaders to become agents of change.
The 2012 event will also feature a professional track in the form of an Advisor Conference for 100 faculty, staff, administrators, and other professionals who currently work with LGBT students.
TRANSECTING SOCIETY: Critical Dialogues on Transsexual/Transgender Identities in Politics, Media, Activism and Culture - April 12-13, 2012 – University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Transecting Society is a two-day symposium dedicated to exploring controversial political topics related to transsexual/transgender identities in contemporary U.S. culture. We welcome scholars, activists, artists, lawyers, performers, writers, non-profit workers and others who are interested in exploring the oppression of trans people in our society, and strategies for promoting our collective liberation and civil rights.
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists - April 12-15, 2012 – University of California, Berkeley, California
Following upon the success of the first C19 conference at Penn State University in 2010, topics may include any aspect of U.S. literary culture--broadly conceived--during the long nineteenth century, including those that bring insights from visual, sound, or performance studies into conversation with literary/textual studies
Sexual Cultures: Theory, Practice, Research - April 20-22, 2012 – Brunel University, London, UK
Onscenity is funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council and draws together international experts in order to respond to the new visibility or onscenity of sex in commerce, culture and everyday life. The network is committed to working towards developing new approaches to the relationships between sex, commerce, media and technology. Drawing on the work of leading scholars from around the world, it aims to map a transformed landscape of sexual practices and co-ordinate a new wave of research.
A two-day interdisciplinary conference with a critical focus on theory exploring the relationship between the body and movement within the sciences and the humanities, as engaged with in literature, philosophy, art, film, cultural studies and the sciences.
Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward - May 18-19, 2012 – The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
The title is meant as an expansive call to consider a host of issues evoked by queer places (local/global, urban/rural, North/South, East/West, public/private, mobility/immobility, etc.), queer practices (sexual cultures, expressive cultures, political activism, academic work, etc.), and queer lives (biography, hagiography, psychology, sexology, history, development, etc.). We envision the conference as an opportunity both to take stock of inter/disciplinary trends as well as provoke new ideas and frameworks for future work.
Hosting over 25 panels, International Equality Dinner, SundayOUT! at The Piazza. six parties, an art exhibit, theater performance, and more. There is no registration fee and all panels are free.
Queertopia! 5.0: Sexing the Law: Love as/at the Limit - May 25-27, 2012, Northwestern University School of Law and other venues.
This year's theme invites scholars, artists and activists from all disciplines to fuck the law; that is, to explore the violent / erotic tension between sexuality and law in the broadest sense possible. Interpret law as juridical line, principle, system, boundary, limit, totality, rule, norm, more, threshold, the possible. Interpret fuck as to create, to make love (to), to caress, to make come, to scandalize, to say yes to, to say no to, to subvert, to protest, to transform; to prove, to imagine and to embody that things could be otherwise.
The Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference (PTHC) was founded in 2002 by a group of transgender activists, allies, and service providers. Now in its eleventh year, PTHC proudly offers a space for transgender people and our allies, families, and providers to come together to re-envision what health means for transgender people.
The focus of this unique conference is promoting transgender health and wellness in mind, body, spirit, and community. PTHC recognizes the interconnections among all aspects of our well-being; including health, safety, education, employment, housing, and social support. Further, PTHC recognizes that accessible and quality healthcare is an integral part of self-determining our bodies and identities in the larger world.
As much as possible, PTHC strives to ensure that the conference addresses the diverse needs of all transgender communities: transgender men, transgender women, gender-queer, and gender-variant people, as well as our partners, families, and allies. In addition, in an effort to increase the availability of quality, culturally-competent care for transgender communities, PTHC also provides a workshops for medical, mental health, and social service providers.
We are committed to making the conference as inclusive and accessible as possible. Therefore, the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference charges no registration fee.
AAUW and NASPA proudly present the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders — Leadership for Today and Tomorrow, the only conference that brings together college women to address important and contemporary leadership issues. The conference provides a transformative experience for attendees, and students return home ready to improve their campuses and their communities.
At the conference, you will
meet AAUW honorees at the Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony,
be inspired by nationally recognized keynote speakers,
develop skills by attending workshops,
take part in pre-conference activities and community service projects, and
enjoy endless opportunities to network, network, network!
The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz) is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life.
July
Social Policies & Pragmatic Tolerance - July 16 - August 4,2012 -Amsterdam
- Gives undergraduate students an in-depth look at some of the social policies of the Netherlands and their implications on Amsterdam. Subjects such as
immigration, drugs and sex work will be addressed by various prominent guest lecturers and educational site visits. Studying in Amsterdam gives you one of the world's most beautiful and stimulating cities as your campus.
Queering Paradigms IV - July 25-28, 2012 - Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The aim of the conference is thus to analyze the status quo and the future challenges of Queer and LGBTIQ Studies from an ample,
inter/multidisciplinary perspective, in order to problematize/destabilize (i.e. to queer) essentialized discourses and totalizing paradigms. Our intention is to bring together researchers from many countries in an exploration of queer and LGBTIQ social practices, presenting from disciplines as diverse as, but not limited to, anthropology, sociology,
language studies, theology, political science, law, social medicine, philosophy, geography and social psychology.
Organized by the LGBT Studies Program & Minor
Chancellor’s Leadership Project
Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA
We invite scholars and activists to join in an exploration of the methods, possibilities, challenges, and dangers of doing LGBT/queer scholarship, activism, pedagogy, and curriculum in a transnationalized and technologically mediated world. We want to address the many challenges of understanding and responding to the complexly lived lives of queer subjects, as they are shaped by local and global upheavals and opportunities. What does the ‘transnational’ mean? How are queer lives rendered visible and legible and affectively accessible? What matrices of power make some queer figures more visible than others? What new forms of scholarship and activism emerge as people, images, ideas, and capital move in rapid, uneven, and complex ways across national borders? How might practices of kinships, however tense or contingent, happen? How does, or should, the transnational turn shape our pedagogies and curricula? And how do we connect and collaborate as scholars and activists across the globe? These are messy knowledges, nuanced knowledges, framed by the local and the global in complicated and often surprising ways.
We invite you to spend a few days in Bloomington Indiana working intensively with colleagues from all over the nation and world who are grappling with similar challenges, and engage in deep thinking and extended discussion about innovative programming related to the theme of "LGBTI Health: At the Crossroads." We welcome presentations from diverse health care disciplines, community members, and anyone with a vested interest in addressing LGBTI health discrepancies. Based on the content of the abstracts accepted for workshop presentations, the workshop will be organized into tracks.
Let's go camp, now you can develop friendships for a lifetime with other LGBT and ally college students, build your leadership skills and take action as a social justice advocate for a safer and more inclusive campus.
August
LGBTQ Focus Group at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference - August 2-5, 2012 - Washington, DC
As the conference on the whole challenges us to consider every theatrical event as a mode of civic engagement, as well as to think about the necessity of theatre in our schools, cities, nations, and worlds, the LGBTQ Focus Group is interested in sessions exploring the specific ways in which LGBTQ scholars, performers, audiences, educators, and students act as advocates for civil disobedience and dissidence; for theatrical unrest and restlessness; for outlaw, outside, outsider, ‘out there,’ and otherwise out performance.
Each year, the National LGBT Bar Association hosts the Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair to bring together the best and brightest legal minds in the LGBT community. The three-day conference draws over 1,500 attendees and features over 35 workshops and panel discussions. The career fair, held on the first day of the conference, draws over 500 students and features over 130 recruiters.
**Some LGBT oriented conferences and events are also (cross)listed
at Campus Pride's Events & Conferences webpage**.
Calls for Conference Proposals
Radically Gay: The Life & Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay – Due February 29th - In celebration of the centennial of the birth of LGBT pioneer Harry Hay,
CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies at CUNY) and the Harry Hay Centennial Committee invite proposals for a broad-reaching conference
exploring key facets of LGBT life and their evolution over the last six decades. Given this rich array of interests, the conference organizers seek to gather scholars, public intellectuals, activists, students, and artists who will take inspiration from Hay’s life and ideas in order to think together about several strands of LGBT living. In particular, the conference will explore four central themes inspired by and reflective of Hay’s life and times: LGBT arts, political activism, spirituality and sexual identities.
All proposals should be sent to Daniel Hurewitz at daniel.hurewitz@hunter.cuny.edu by February 29, 2012, with “Hay Centennial” in the subject line.
Queertopia! 5.0: Sexing the Law: Love as/at the Limit - May 25-27, 2012, Northwestern University School of Law and other venues.
Please send abstracts of 250 words, and a 100 word
presentation summary / 75 word bio (for our conference booklet) to QPGSA at nuqpgsa@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions February 28th, 2012.
The Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Research Associateship http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/fcwsrc/
As part of a year-long focus on examining the field of gender studies and the impact of new media on research, teaching, and activism within global perspectives, we invite proposals for projects that may include, but are not limited to, exploring the impact of new media on: access and rights; uses of technology and surveillance; transnational encounters; intersectionality; and sustainability, broadly defined. Other topics might include visual literacy and cultural expression; public spheres and cyberspace; digital technology in academic research and practice, including new forms of archival inquiry.
You can submit a physical form in the Portland State Queer Resource Center Smith Memorial Student Union Room 401 or contact Jayvin Jordan-Green for more information at qsocconference@gmail.com
Workshops proposals are due March 1st,2012.
Sexual Orientation Workshop
- This two day Workshop will be held in Paris (France) in 2012, June 20-22, and is co-organized by the University of Evry Val d'Essonne (Paris, France), Bryant University (Rhode Island, USA) and the University of Paris 2
Pantheon-Assas (Paris, France). A small number of papers (12 to 15) will be accepted for presentation at the Workshop.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) invites submissions for its debut panel from scholars who have not yet presented academic work either at ATHE or on the topic of LGBTQ theatre and performance. Proposals on all aspects of LGBTQ theatre and performance will receive equal consideration.
In this special issue, the European Journal of Ecopsychology seeks to bring together writing by scholars, activists, therapists and other practitioners exploring the fertile edge between ecopsychology and queer. The journal accepts a variety of types of writing.
Call for Submissions due June 1, 2012
Calls for Journal and Book Submissions
Call for Submissions: Attention all writers: here is your chance to publish your work in an ongoing series of books called World Voice.
We are looking for amateur and professional writers to share their stories and to write about their lives and what really matters to them. This can be in the form of poetry, biographies, creative writings, photographs, and photos of your original art. Please email the coordinating author Joseph A Santiago for more details and an online submission form.
Call for Submissions : InterAlia, a peer-edited scholarly journal for queer theory, seeks submissions, written either in Polish or in English.
Among the issues we hope our contributors will address is the translatability of queer concepts across cultural and linguistic borders; the relationship between queer theory and activism; the possibility of reconciling the different positionings within the queer community that are related to such factors as gender, race, class, age, sexual practices, and geographical location; the relevance of queer studies for understanding the discourses, cultural practices, and institutions that surround us; and the potential of queer as a counterdiscourse or counterpractice. Email interalia@o2.pl with questions.
Queering Fat Embodiment (tentative title)
Contact Samantha.murray@mq.edu.au for inquiries
This edited collection seeks to publish recent scholarship that embraces ‘queering’ as a mode of critical engagement in examining fat embodiment. Queer is a heterogeneous and multidisciplinary practice aimed at ‘bringing forth’ and thus denaturalising the taken for granted, the invisible, the
normalized. This collection seeks to challenge and destabilise existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment both outside of and within the emerging field of Fat Studies.
Due January 15th, 2012
Revolutionary Love Letters (book)
For inquiries, email Jamie.Heckert@gmail.com
It might be a traditional letter, a poem, a short story, a mini essay, a picture, a report from an event. It might be something that you or I have yet to imagine. The love letter might only be a small part of a bigger picture. How might you craft it with love? On your own, or with friends or lovers, comrades or strangers? Will making love letter(s) be part of an event, or an event in itself? Could the process help nourish communities or
movements, families or friendships? You are also warmly invited to interpret revolutionary love for yourself, for yourselves.
Call for Writings due May 1, 2012
Gender and Sexualities in Education (book)
Editor’s personal website: http://sites.google.com/site/lizjmeyer/
Peter Lang is pleased to announce the launch of a new book series on Gender and Sexualities in Education. This series seeks to publish high quality manuscripts that address the complex interrelationship between gender and sexuality in shaping young people’s schooling experiences, their participation in popular youth cultures, and their sense of self in relation to others. Our central interest is in understanding the ways in which young people learn to perform gender in ways that may be constrained by the constructs of patriarchy and heteronormativity, or that may be shaped by a more equitable and liberatory conception of self in relation to others.
