Recordings from Day 1 of QATC 2022 ‘You Better Work’: Queer Labour, Queer Liberation (8 April 2022)

An archive of recorded papers and performances from Day 1 of our 2022 conference, held online with the support of Johns Hopkins University, the Classical Association, the Ganimedes Association, and Agameganon. See all available conference videos via our Youtube playlist.

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Kay Gabriel - Keynote Day 1

"10 Maxims for Culture Work"

In this keynote, essayist and poet Kay Gabriel provides ten maxims of what culture work does, can do and should do, as a realm of political possibility.

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"

 

Luce deLire - “Revenge of the Galli - Transfiguring Lucretius”

 

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”

 

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"