Techne Conflux: Queer Futurity 

17th Feb 2021 10:00am-3:00pm 

This workshop is offered as a Techne Conflux, an extended training, development, exhibition or performance programme which aims to enhance research or intellectual skills, or facilitate the sharing of expertise amongst doctoral students in the arts and humanities.

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This study day is the launch event for a new Techne Conflux series of events ‘Queer Feminist Currents’ which represents a two year collaboration amongst researchers at University of Roehampton and Royal Holloway, University of London. The series will interrogate the key points of convergence and tension in contemporary queer, intersectional feminist and gender studies, decolonial critique, as well as theory and practice as interrelated. Each event in the Queer Feminist Currents series will be focused in part on the reading of key contemporary queer feminist texts and collective discussion between the group of participants. The events are open to anybody and everybody; however, they are aimed primarily at PhD students studying in Techne universities. For this study day, participants will be engaging with selected extracts from Jack Halberstam’s Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020), exercises on key topics and research methods, and provocations from speakers including the queer oral historian Amy Tooth Murphy (Royal Holloway) and Jack Halberstam (Columbia University).