Queer Transformations

A one-day conference, Tuesday 11^th June 2024, University of Southampton.

We are delighted to open registration for attendees. Please follow the Eventbrite link or use the form below to register your place. 

The conference is free to attend and will include a buffet lunch of vegan and vegetarian food. If you have a specific dietary requirement or allergy please get in touch at queertransformations@soton.ac.uk to discuss if this is something we can accommodate. 

The conference will take place on Tuesday 11^th June 2024 between 10am and 16:30pm in Southampton, UK (see ‘Practical Information’ for more details on venue and transport). We do not have capacity to support remote attendance so please only register if you are able to attend in-person as spaces are limited. 

A provisional schedule of speakers will be available on this site in May. We look forward to welcoming you to Southampton in June for a day of queer exploration and creativity. 

Queer methodologies emphasise the value of collating affective stories, non-linear narratives, and visual data in order to understand the experiences of diverse queer communities, and as a strategy for radical social transformation. Join us to consider:

• Strategies for developing queer methodologies
• The forms we use to retell or record the stories created and curated through queer methods
• The audiences and the afterlife of these creative research data
• Strategies for embedding knowledge exchange and engagement beyond the academy
• Formats for (and challenges of) non-traditional reporting and archive curation

• What does queer transformation mean in and out of the academy?
• Can the concrete utopias (Munoz, 2009; Wang, 2023) imagined through artistic practice be included in co-produced academic enquiry and/or policy-orientated investigation?
• Can queer disruption be achieved in institutionally sponsored work?
• How can publishing schedules, impact case studies, or funding bodies accommodate exploratory, radical, transformative, and non-linear stories, communities, and artistic productions?
• What are the ethical and social imperatives and implications of producing non-standard outputs for academic projects?
• How do we archive performance and other non-textual data?
• What are the cultural, legal, and social afterlives of artefacts produced in queer, creative projects?
• Who is served by queer research on queer communities, identities, spaces, people, and lives?
• How do we share ideas and information in ways which reflect the methods used and communities affected?

This conference is hosted by Dr Lizzie Reed, Dr Laura Harris, and Dr Avi Boukli from the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton. To contact the conference team please email queertransformations@soton.ac.uk.