Rhetoric of the Other: From Previsibility to Hypervisibility
28-29 March 2008
Rhetoric of the Other V: From Previsibility to Hypervisibility will focus specifically on LGBTQ-related matters in French and Francophone cultures, literatures, and media (film, television, new media, the Internet, etc.) from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. New approaches to queer studies and its interrelations to cultural studies, aesthetics, and specific literary and cinematic praxes, changes in our conceptions of what queer theory might be, changes in the optics relative to HIV infection, the development of new means of communication and representation, and the developing maturity and decreased marginality of the field all speak to the necessity of having another conference on “Rhetoric of the Other.” The conference itself will be held over two full days, 28-29 March 2008, with plenary talks by Elisabeth Ladenson and Anne Garetta.