Third European Geographies of Sexualities Conference

P.S. For all of you Flying Brains And Hot Eyes who missed the film "JEsus Died For Others´Sins", The film can be purchased on line with English Subtitles. Do not miss the chance to watch and share the transgender s*x-workers herstories and poetry of such a sud-mediterranean city as Catania (Sicily). References for purchasing under the trailer:

GESÙ È MORTO PER I PECCATI DEGLI ALTRI/TRAILER GESÙ È MORTO PER I PECCATI DEGLI ALTRI film documentario durata 90' https://www.facebook.com/gesuemorto?ref=hl Produzione Maria Arena, Josella Porto e Invisi...

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The Conference Program Goes on with URBAN TISSUES screenings at CINEMA TREVI - PROGRAM (FREE ENTRY):
- 16,45 "The other side of the rainbow (Die Andere Seite des Regenbogens)" di Thomas Bartels (2012, 86’) Original Version (English/German) with Italian subtitles Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRmEQcX2Jx4
- 18,30 " Jesus Died for others´sins (2014, 84’), Original Version with English Subtitles. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYCCMrHqh3A

Trailer - The Other Side of the Rainbow "The Other Side of the Rainbow" shows what it means to be gay, le***an or transgender today in Berlin by portraying four individuals, who are in some way or ...

The first key-note lecture of the day starts at 11.30 (room: Affreschi)- Nicola Mai will present "Assembling 'Samira' and 'Travel': affecting s*xual humanitarianism through experimental ethnofictional filmmaking"

Samira is a 27 minutes two-screen ethnofictional installation presenting the life history of Karim, an Algerian migrant man selling s*x as a transvestite at night in Marseille. Karim left Algeria as a young man as his breasts started developing as a result of taking hormones. He was granted asylum in France as a transgender woman, Samira. Twenty years later, as his father is dying and he is about to become the head of the family Samira surgically removes her breasts and marries a woman in order to get a new passport allowing him to return to Algeria to assume his new role.

Travel is 27 minutes two-screen ethnofictional installation presenting the life history of Joy, a Nigerian migrant woman selling s*x in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris. Joy left Nigeria in order to help her family after the death of her father. She knew that she was going to sell s*x before leaving, but was unaware of the hard working and life condition she would have had to face in France. After having endured several months of exploitation, Joy decides to reinterpret her story of migration as one of trafficking. With the help of an association she obtains humanitarian protection, but in order to keep helping her family and live her life she keeps selling s*x at night.

Samira and Travel are part of the Emborders art-science project questioning the effectiveness and scope of humanitarian initiatives targeting migrant s*x workers and s*xual minority asylum seekers. In order to get their rights recognised and avoid deportation migrant women, men and transgender people re-present their life histories and perform their subjectivities according to stereotypically s*x-gendered canons of victimhood and humanitarian repertoires.

The stories of Karim and Joy are presented by juxtaposing the multiple versions and narrations of the self emerging in different situations, relationships and settings: the ethnographic observation in the street, the medical visit, the interview with the OFPRA case adjudicator (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless People), shopping in the city centre, sitting at a café next to the street market. The two screens on which the two ethnofiction develop try to embody the concept of biographical border by representing the dualisms and normativities that fragment and aggregate subjectivities in relation to research and humanitarian initiatives.

Each situation highlights contradictory or coherent aspects of the subjectivity and history of Karim and Joy. However, the aim of the project is not to demonstrate his lack of authenticity or that he lies. Each version of the self presented by the two protagonists is authentic, proving that every subjectivity is incoherent and that the real privilege is not to have to be verified, evaluated, recognised or believed in relation to the biographical borders that are enforced by humanitarian protection.

The Emborders filmmaking/research project gathers and analyses the migration, asylum and work experiences of real people, which will be performed by actors to protect the identities of the original interviewees and to embody the performance of their self-representations through interviews.

Affect, embodiment and performativity play a key role in the phenomenological (re)production of credibility in humanitarian settings. The project aims to produce an epistemological and artistic intervention on the inherently fictional nature of any narration of the self in the context of humanitarian borders. By using actors to reproduce real people and real life histories, the project problematises what constitutes a credible and authentic reality in scientific, filmic and humanitarian terms.

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Third European Geographies of Sexualities Conference THIRD DAY - Special Highlights are the double Key Note Lectures by
Nicola Mai "Assembling 'Samira' and 'Travel': affecting s*xual humanitarianism through experimental ethnofictional filmmaking" discussed by Debanuj DasGuputa and Shaka McGlotten with his "Black Data: Against the Hegemony of the Transparent" discussed by Katrien Jacobs.

Shaka McGlotten - Goddard College Anthropology; Critical Race and Postcolonial Studies; African Diaspora; Cultural Studies; Q***r studies

Today the Conference is starting at 09:30 a the Faculty of Ingeneering in Via Eudossiana 18 - Subway Stop "COLOSSEO". Check the program and see you there

Program Please click to download the final program of the conference: .doc .pdf The registration desk at the Faculty of Engineering will be open on the 16th- 17th and 18th from 9am. COLLATERAL EVENTS...

and here we are!
the conference starts tonights with the screening of "Samira" and "Normal" by Mai (20.30 at the Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli)

trailer of Samira: https://vimeo.com/84704860

trailer of Normal: https://vimeo.com/50289487

see you tonight!

SAMIRA - trailer (EN) SAMIRA Samira is a 28 minutes two-screen art-science installation presenting an ethnographic account of the life history of Karim, an Algerian migrant man selling…

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As key-note speaker of the conference, Michael Brown (University of Washington in seattle) will give the lecture "Q***ring the local state’s biopolitics: The noir of public health contact tracing in Seattle" (co-authored with Larry Knopp)

Here's the abstract: http://geos*xualities3.weebly.com/q***ring-state.html

Answering calls from Duggan to “q***r the state” and from Painter to trace “the prosaic geographies of stateness”, this lecture considers the quotidian relations in post-War/Pre-AIDS Seattle, Washington between its public health department and its homos*xual community. Homos*xuals were governmentalized as one problem for Public Health due to the incidence of “venereal disease” in that population. While the department opened its clinic doors to homos*xuals for screening and treatment, its proactive mandate to find and prevent disease impelled it towards more active, and prosaic, role in contact tracing and disease investigation. This is theorized as a biopolitics of population that, while common in postwar U.S. cities generally, has received little attention in the historical geographies of s*xuality. Drawing on interviews with health workers and community members this lecture reveals the often hidden, paradoxical, and rather q***r ways the state navigated the dark, unfamiliar, and closeted spaces of Seattle’s gay community; as well as the way homos*xuals participated in and resisted these governmental moves.

Q***ring state "Q***ring the local state’s biopolitics: The noir of public health contact tracing in Seattle" (key-note lecture by Michael Brown, co-authored with Larry Knopp) Answering calls from Duggan...

Third European Geographies of Sexualities Conference REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ! SUPPORT, SHARE AND CROSS BOUNDARIES!

Registration Registration fees Students, PhD candidates, low waged and unemployed: 50 euros Standard: 130 euros Registration for presenters will be open from the 25th of May to the 10th of July 2015. ...