“Queer and The Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings”

Running online in GMT at the Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity, University of Oxford, on the 20th-21st February 2021. You can read our Call for Papers here, and read full abstracts here.

conference hashtag: #QATC2021

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DAY ONE: SATURDAY, 20 FEB 2021 

10.30-11.00: WELCOME 

11.00-12.00: KEYNOTE LECTURE

• Mathura Umachandran, “Carrier Bag Theory of Queer Feeling, or, Coming to Critique”
  (suggested reading: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin)

12.00-12.15: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

12.15-2.15: PANEL 1. The Institution Cannot Be Queered: Caring, Dismantling, Re-imagining 

• Emer O'Hanlon, “‘Truth is no Apollo Belvedere, no formal thing’: Querying a queer icon, re-appropriating Apollo”

• Donna Marcus, “Right Distance: Towards an Ethic of Care in Queer Translation of Pāli Texts”

• Kit Pyne-Jaeger, “Half My Life I Leave Behind: Reconciling the Academic and Affective with Oscar Wilde and A.E. Housman”

• Rhea Stark, “Imagining Queer Futures in the Museum”

2.15-3.15: MEAL BREAK (optional breakout rooms)

3.15-4.45: PANEL 2. Queer Participatory Methods & Media

• Neha Rahman, “Not to me, not if it’s you: (Fan)Fictional Intimacies on the Internet and in the Imagination”

• Lena Barsky, “I WOULD KNOW HIM IN DEATH // HELLO, STRANGER: Achilles, Patroclus, and Fanfiction Refracted” 

• Izzy Levy, “‘Wiping Away the Paint’: Drag, Euripides’ Helen, and Epistemologies of the Body in Performance”***

4.45-5.15: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

5.15-6.00: PANEL 3. Identifications & Disidentifications

• Joe Watson, “Worlds at Angles: Sappho, Cavafy and the Queer Potentialities of Utopia”

• Oliver Baldwin, “The House of Hecuba: Tragic/Queer Disidentifications of Colour and the Siege of AIDS”

6:00-6.15: DAY ONE CLOSING REMARKS

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DAY TWO: SUNDAY, 21 FEB 2021

11:45-12:00: WELCOME 

12.00-1.30: PANEL 4. Queer Classicisms & Problems of Scholarly Reception

• Claire Barnes, “‘Now that the wind has deprived the statues of their fig leaves I can hardly bear to look out’ – queer appropriations of Edwardian Classicism”

• Toni Andres, “Trans Catullus: Reconsidering the Legacy of Reception & the Role of the Audience”

• Rioghnach Sachs, “Repositioning Sappho in the History of Sexuality”

1.30-2.30: LUNCH BREAK (optional breakout rooms)

2.30-4.00: PANEL 5. Queer Bodies In & Out of Time

• Lee Hansen, “Crip/Queer Times and Arthur Golding’s Metamorphosis (1567)”

• Marchella Ward, “Cripping Ancestorship for Queer Time: On Refusing the Genealogy of the Classical”

• Enrique Huelva Jiménez & Marta Martín Díaz, “EpiQUEERean Bodies in Revolt: An Audiovisual Rendering of Lucretius’ & Jarman’s Work”***

4.00-4.30: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

4.30-6.00: PANEL 6. Disrupting Mythologies, Philologies & Dramaturgies

• Vanessa Stovall, “Myths/t/ripping Persephone: Queering katabasis, cosmetics, and mythopoesis in Kieron Gillan and Jamie McKelvie’s ‘The Wicked + The Divine’”

• David Youd, “Polymorphously Per-verse: Queer Metrology in Euripides’ Orestes"

• Emma Pauly, “Epiphany, Making Manifest, and Other Dramatic Ways to Come Out: Engaging with Bacchae While Non-Binary”***

6.00-6.15: BREAK (zoom room stays open)

6.15-6.45: FINAL PERFORMANCE

• Ash Blight, stained with red juice***

6:45-7.00: DAY TWO CLOSING REMARKS

*** indicates a performance and/or multimedia provocation

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