Monday 27th – Friday 31st May 2024
This year, the SSS returns with the theme ‘Queer Friendship and Other Intimacies’, which will bring into focus how new forms of friendship, kinship, activism and creative collaboration have emerged in queer, feminist and trans lives and politics. We shall explore how these have generated enduring affiliations and deep attachments – as well as conflicts, frustrations and disappointments – in both the past and in the present; and we shall trace their emergence in research and writing, film and performance, as well as in activist and mutual aid networks that respond to today’s ‘care crisis’.
Public Events Programme:
NB: This is a draft schedule – please check exact times on our blog nearer to the event dates.
Monday 27th May, 12pm-2pm
Opening Public Lecture: ‘Partner Uncoupled: Queer Theories and Methods for Sustaining Kinship’
Teagan Bradway (author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading (2017) and co-editor (with Elizabeth Freeman) of Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (2022).
With an introduction by Dr. Monica Pearl, ‘On Queer Friendship’
Venue: The Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge St. M1 5BY
No booking required, all welcome.
Monday 27th May, 6pm-8:30pm
Film screening and Discussion: After Louie (dir. Gagliostro, 2018)
Q&A with director Vincent Gagliostro, Monica Pearl, Nathaniel Hall, chaired by Jackie Stacey
Venue: HOME 2 Tony Wilson Pl, Manchester M15 4FN
Booking required: Click here to book.
Tuesday 28th May, 7pm-8:30pm
Live Performance: The Last Show Before We Die
By the Hotter Project (Ell Potter and Mary Higgins)
Venue: QUEER LIT, 27 Great Ancoats St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5AJ
Booking required. Click here to book.
Wednesday 29th May, 12:30pm-2pm
Roundtable Discussion: ‘Queer Friendship and Activism’
Speakers: Monica Pearl, Will Nutland, Hafsa Qureshi, Yvonne Richards Cooper, chaired by Jackie Stacey
Venue: QUEER LIT, 27 Great Ancoats St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5AJ
No booking required, all welcome.
Wednesday 29th May, 6.30pm-8pm
Book Launch: Jason Okundaye‘s Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain (2024 Faber)
Jason Okundaye will be in conversation with Jess White.
Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, University Green, 146 Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9GP
This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for New Writing (University of Manchester)
Booking is required. Click here to book.
Thursday 30th May, 12:30pm-2pm
Roundtable on ‘Queer Friendship and Academic Collaborations’
Celebrating the publication of The Richard Dyer Reader with Richard Dyer, and co-editors Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman, chaired by Jackie Stacey
Venue: SALC Graduate School Seminar Room C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building, The University of Manchester, M15 6JA
No booking required, all welcome.
Thursday 30th May, 6pm-7:30pm
‘Intellectual and Other Intimacies’: Heather Love and Christina Lupton in conversation with Monica Pearl, chaired by Jackie Stacey
Venue: SALC Graduate School Seminar Room C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building, The University of Manchester, M15 6JA
No booking required, all welcome.
Postgraduate registration for SSS 2024 is now full. You are welcome to join the waiting list. Please visit our blog for more information.