[spectre] Fwd: CfP: Digital Queers conference (New York City, 25-27 June 2015)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Digital Queers
Datum: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:39:35 +0000
Von: Lanfranco Aceti <lanfranco.aceti at gmail.com>

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The Digital Queers Conference will take place at The New School, June 
25, 26 and 27, 2015, and will coincide with the Gay Pride in New York. 
During the month of June is also expected a sentence of the American 
Supreme Court on Equality and hopefully this will be another reason to 
celebrate.

The call for abstract is available at this link 
http://ocradst.org/digitalqueers2015/publication-cfp/ .

The conference website can be found here 
http://ocradst.org/digitalqueers2015/ .

Call for Papers

Digital Queers is a conference that will focus on issues related to 
social justice for the gay community at large. The evolution of society 
has led to an increased acceptance of the LGBTQA world – in part due to 
more open and vociferous stances of the multiple communities of gender 
minorities and in part to the role that contemporary digital media have 
played in reshaping communication and advocacy. Unfortunately we are far 
from achieving that social justice necessary to avoid discrimination in 
the work place or to avoid persecutions of individuals and communities 
across the world. What are then the new practices that should be pursued 
in order to achieve and ensure social justice for all?

The conference will analyze the following themes, but will be open to a 
wide range of proposals in the field that tackle the issues from a 
variety of perspectives.

Equality, now!
Social Justice for Gender Minorities
Digital Guerrilla for Social Justice?
Digital Media and Gender Stories
Exporting Gender Equality?
Social Justice in the Workplace
Gender Communities and Strife
Practical Steps for Social Justice
Multiple Definitions of Gender
Digital Queers’ Revolution

The aim of the conference is to bring together social justice advocates, 
contemporary theoreticians, gender hacktivists, scholars, 
anthropologists, visual culture experts, curators and ‘LGBTQA 
revolutionaries.’ The conference speakers will present papers that 
respond to the themes of social justice and the role of digital media in 
reshaping the public image of the queer community. In particular the 
conference is looking at recording and developing new practices for 
social justice and public engagement that face up to the still looming 
problems of discrimination that the gay community at large faces 
nationally and internationally.

Chairs: Lanfranco Aceti and Sven Travis

Keynotes: to be announced.

300 to 500 words abstract submissions. Please send your submissions to: 
info at ocradst.org

Email Subject Header: Digital Queers 2015.

Deadline: March 31, 2015.

The conference is free of charge.