19 March 2007
no future event
No Future Together
A one-day symposium on Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive.
Organized by Queer @ King’s
[see k-punk's fantastic piece on Edelman from a while back]
2 June 2007
King’s College London, Council Room, Strand Campus
Programme
9.30–11.00 Session 1: Futurity
Chair: John Howard (King's)
Ide Corley (Tufts/ TCD): "Pan-Africa’s Prospects? Inter-racial Familialism and the Logic of Futurity"
Lynn Fanthome (Manchester): "Imagining the queer and the child"
Dominic Johnson (Queen Mary): "Writing in the cut: death drives and archives"
11.00–11.30 coffee
11.30–1.00 Session 2: Synthomosexuality
Chair: Adrian Rifkin (Middlesex)
Lisa Downing (Exeter): "Acts without a future: erasing the subject of Edelman"
Hector Kollias (King's): "How to be a ‘Happy’ Sinthomosexual – or living with the Death Drive"
Richard Maguire (King's): "No future/ past tense - Elegiac meditations"
1.00–2.00 lunch
2.00–3.30 panel discussion of No Future
Chair: Simon Gaunt (King's)
Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths), David Alderson (Manchester), Bart Eeckhout (Antwerp), Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway)
3.30–3.45 tea
3.45–5.00 Lee Edelman: ‘Unbecoming: pornography and the queer event’
Chair: Kimberly Springer (King's)
Attendance
There is no charge to attend this event, but you do need to register. If you wish to attend please email John Howard (john.howard@kcl.ac.uk).
