QATC 2022 ‘You Better Work’: Queer Labour, Queer Liberation

Running online in timezone BST on Zoom on the 8th - 9th of April 2022. You can register for the conference here. You can also read our Call for Papers here, and access full abstracts here.

Our keynote speakers include Kay Gabriel and Andrea Abi-Karam, editors of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020).

This year’s conference has been made possible by the generous funding support of Johns Hopkins University, the Classical Association UK, the Ganimedes Association, and Agameganon.

Finally, this conference will follow the best practices for accessible online conferences outlined by CripAntiquity, including automated OtterAI captioning. Final recordings will feature captions edited for accuracy and clarity. For questions or requests regarding accessibility, please contact Cecily Bateman at cb970@cam.ac.uk.

conference hashtag: #QATC22

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DAY ONE: FRI, 8 APR 2022 

11.00-11.15: WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

11.15 - 12.30: PANEL 1, Disturbing Attachments: De-Idealizing the Classical (Chairs: Cecily Bateman, Ryan Warwick)

• Lily Bickers, “Rotten Work? Queerstories, Care, and Cancelling Euripides”

• Eleonora Colli, “‘What do You Know About Nero and Sporus?’: Classics and Disturbing Attachments in HBO's Succession”

• Kathryn H. Stutz, “Ciceronian Homonationalism: Modern Queer Receptions and the Labour of Empire”

12.30-13.00: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

13.00-13.30: PERFORMANCE LECTURE

• Luce deLire, “Pink Antiquity – Studying Queerocracies to come”

13.30-13.45: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

13.45-15.00: PANEL 2, The Logic of Violence, The Violence of Logic (Chairs: Claire Heseltine, Meg Finlayson)

• Claudio Sansone, “The Odyssey's Sublimation of Violence against the Enslaved”

• Karen Carr, “Queerness at the racialized center of the tension between work and money in classical antiquity”

• Regina Nagan, “The Triumph of Flora: The Floralia Festival and Sex Work in Ancient Rome”

15.00-15.15: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

15.15-16.30: KEYNOTE 1

• Kay Gabriel, “10 Maxims for Culture Work”

16.30-16.45: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

16:45-18.00: PANEL 3, Liquid Mythologies: Melt, Flow, Resolve (Chairs: Nicolette D’Angelo, Hugh McElroy)

• Zoë Jennings, “Endurance, relationality and the performance of queer resilience in Cassils’ Tiresias (2010)”

• Vanessa Stovall, “Sappho’s Son(s): the Queer (Re)production Complex across the Theater of Dionysus”

• Richard Hutchins, “Dionysus and Queer Ecological Vision in Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane"

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DAY TWO: SAT, 9 APR 2022

12:30-12:40: SETTLING IN 

12.45-14.00: PANEL 4. Queer Bodies at Work (Chairs: Cecily Bateman, Meg Finlayson)

• Cheryl Morgan, “Trans Men in Labour”

• Irene Han, “Les Guérillères: Sappho and the Lesbian Body”

• Emily Lamond, “Enslaved and Disabled: A Discourse on Epictetus”

14.00-14.30: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

14.30-15.45: PANEL 5. Re-working Reception (Chairs: Hugh McElroy, Ryan Warwick)

• Martin Michalek, “Coming Out of the Underworld: Poliziano, Orpheus, and the Queer Time of Renaissance Scholarship”

• Ciara Barrick, “Eva Palmer-Sikelianos’s Craftwork Economy: Weaving the Queer, the Classical, and Modern Greece”

• Tom Sapsford, “Not that Arthur Evans: a Fagiography”

15.45-16.00: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

16.00-17.15: PANEL 6. Same Old Shit, New Queer Aesthetics (Chairs: Eleonora Colli, Marta Martín Díaz)

• Nicolette D’Angelo & Marcus Bell, “‘warp the text’: Glitch Philology, Arca, SOPHIE”

• Claire Heseltine, “Queer phenomenology and queer archaeologies”

• Izzy Levy, “Queer Ephemerality, Poetic World-Making, and Sapphic Memory Work in Fragment 94”

17.15-17.30: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

17.30-18:30: KEYNOTE 2

• Andrea Abi-Karam, “Villainy & the Poetics of Terror”

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