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Annual Report
2007
CHiCS: Academic Think Tanks and
ressource centers: Production of Knowledge
Part 5:
Scheduled Academic Activities 2007
Focus
for Aids in Culture 2008
Venue:
Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH)
In
2008, the conference has the subtitle: Imaging and Imagining
Aids: The nature and role of images, visual representations,
imagination and narrative interpretation in making sense of
experiences of health, illness and disease.
UNESCO
has proclaimed 2008 as International Year of Languages and
lingustic diversity and coexistance will be a common theme of
many academic, cultural and artistic activities organised by
Enkidu Magazine throughout the year in Mexico City. Also during
Aids in Culture V, there will be a stream of panel sessions
addressing the role of local languages in combating AIDS/HIV
and other diseases by safeguarding of local and indigenous
knowledge and know-how.
Focus
for Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2008
Venue:
Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana
In
2008 the conference will have a special focus on Queerness and
Otherness The committee has selected papers addressing related
issues in one way or another, as well as narratives
of identities and identity constructions from a wide range of
different perspectives, in addition to papers focusing on
representations and social constructions of sexual diversities
through time and space.
Building
Bridges
At occasion of the 30th
anniversary of Mexico City Gay Pride Parade, Los Martes de
Enkidu: The Diversities Think Tank in Mexico City in partnership
with the International Society for Cultural History and Cultural
Studies (CHiCS): Center for Queer Studies, Gender Studies and
Human Rights invites the global community of activists and
academics to propose papers for a multi-disciplinary,
multi-lingual and multi-cultural conference cycle in three acts,
which will explore and contextualise the history of the Global
Gay Pride movements and discuss the past, present and future of
sexual minorities activism from a wide range of perspectives.
Standing on the shoulders of
those who came before us, younger generations of activists
continue the Movement toward equity and a more including
society. This international conference cycle will discuss
activism and its practice, its purpose, and its intersections
with policy, community and culture as well as global and local
community building.
The History of the Gay Pride
Movement in Mexico and other countries has been a reoccurring
theme in the Diversities' Think Tank in Mexico City during the
last year. The organizing committee for the annual International
Queer Studies Easter Symposium in Mexico City, has since July
2006, organized a bimonthly session on the History of LGBT
activism in Mexico in our Community Think Tank, which has
resulted in an exiting chronicle of the history of the local
community.
Several pioneers from the early
days of the Pride Movement have presented their vision of the
History of the Movement in the Think Tank. Many different views
have been presented, but, not surprisingly, a general conclusion
after these different sessions, has been, that Mexico has
changed profoundly in the last 30 years and with it, also the
very meaning of Gay Pride and community activism. We now
invite the global community to join our continuous circle of
reflextion and dialogue.
Summer
Conference
The primary focus of this
inclusive and interdisciplinary annual conference organized by
Enkidu Magazine and the International Society for Cultural
History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS) in Mexico City is to
interrogate storytelling, memories and identity constructions
from a wide range of perspectives, and in their manifold
cultural and social manifestations.
The fifth edition of this
conference cycle, which will take place in July 2008, will have
a special focus on "Border Cultures, Multi-Culturalism,
Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism". Papers representing
interpretative approaches in the humanities and social sciences,
as well as papers addressing creative historical and political
memory, remembering and forgetting of the past, as well as
translations between cultures and re-negotiations and
re-constructions of cultural identities in one one way or
another are particularly welcome. However, also in 2008 the
conference will follow a similar model as in previous years with
a large number of thematic sessions addressing several different
issues. The conference aims
at bringing together academics working in all relevant
disciplines as well as activists, artists and other
professionals, and promoting innovative multidisciplinary and
multicultural exchange and dialogue.
"Border cultures,
Multi-Culturalism, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism" continues
the tradition established by the previous held events in this
conference cycle which has developed into an annual academic
tradition in Mexico City, bringing together participants from
all over the world to share and exchange their research,
experiences and ideas in a truly multicultural, multilingual and
interdisciplinary academic environment: Masculinities: New
Perspectives (2004), Competing Diversities (2005), Testimonial
Texts: Stories, Lives and Memories (2006) and Identities in
Transition (2007).
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