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DESCRIPTION:Queer Bonds is a three-day symposium at the University of California, 
 Berkeley, dedicated to exploring the intersections between sexuality and 
 sociability. While its genealogies are multiple, the field of queer studies 
 has been shaped by two powerful trajectories: on the one hand, an attempt 
 to account for the creative forms of social and sexual bonding that have 
 existed around, outside of, or in the interstices of "normal" sociality; on 
 the other, an insistence on queerness as a force of subversion, refusal, 
 and antipathy towards the social. How do conditions in our world today make 
 it imperative that queer theory comprehend both the adhesive and corrosive 
 dimensions of our queer bonds?\n\nThe work we are canvassing asks in 
 different ways how we can theorize sociability and relationality without 
 either unilaterally embracing the positive existence of a queer social bond 
 or insisting on its categorical refusal. Queer bonds must engage 
 connections that span both moments of radical impersonality and of the 
 all-too-personal. We invoke "bonds" in their multiple senses as 
 deliberately redolent of the identity movements of the 1970s that provided 
 much of the energy that served to define our field both academically and 
 politically — alongside the denomination "queer" which suggests the 
 enduring impact of the theories of subversion, resignification, and 
 appropriation we associate with the art and theory of the 1980s and 1990s. 
 We thus invite our speakers to pay heed to the rich traditions of queer 
 culture, politics, and thought which have preceded our own, even as they 
 reinvent them for the conditions of our world today. \n\nFor a full 
 conference description and schedule details, go to 
 www.queerbonds.com.\n\nAll events are free of charge and open to the 
 public. PRE-REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE by sending an email to 
 queerbonds@gmail.com, stating name and affiliation. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/01/18567515.php
SUMMARY:Berkeley: Queer Bonds Conference
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum\nUC Berkeley\n2625 Durant Ave
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/01/18567515.php
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