Queer, Feminist, and Trans Studies Research Cluster (QFT) and HATCH: The Feminist Arts & Science Shop (a Mellon Research Initiative) at the University of California, Davis presents the Annual Conference

Beyond Care: Managing in a Precarious Present

Keynote: Toby Beauchamp, author of Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices (Duke University Press, 2019)

Conference Date:  June 3, 2019

Location:  UC Davis, Room TBA

Deadline for Submissions: May 13, 2019

Email: QFT.UCDavis@gmail.com

The Queer, Feminist, and Trans Studies Research Cluster (QFT) and HATCH: The Feminist Arts & Science Shop (a Mellon Research Initiative) at the University of California, Davis invite submissions for a conference centered on queer, feminist, and trans studies perspectives on surveillance, survival, and the speculative. We invite submissions from undergraduate and graduate students working in the interdisciplinary fields of queer and feminist studies, trans studies, critical health studies, legal studies, critical border studies, and science and technology studies. Potential participants should plan for 10-12 minute presentations (approximately 5-7 pages double-spaced 12 pt. font).

Our conference theme, Beyond Care: Managing in a Precarious Present, develops conversations from last year’s conference on Queering Care and Cure. This year, we interrogate queer and trans forms of resistance and struggle in relation to institutions who provide, or who are designated to provide, forms of care. In thinking beyond care to forms of management, we seek to make visible how institutions address and offer care, whether through access or treatment. At the same time, we question how individuals, especially queer, trans, non-white, non-heterosexual, non-citizen individual maintain self and collective care through means of survival and strategy in the everyday. In our theme we think alongside Professor Beauchamp’s work on surveillance and regulatory governance’s managing of trans and queer embodiments as they appear as a form of care. In thinking beyond care, we ask how we might begin to tease out how non-dominant or nonnormative identities and embodiments navigate management in this contemporary moment rife with governmental and cultural pushback against marginalized folks and their ability to access care.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
- The medical industrial complex
- Law, legislation, and governance
- Substance use and harm reduction
- Homelessness/houselessness
- Bodies and embodiment
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Disability, chronic illness, and environmental illness
- Environment and climate change
- Immigration, questions of citizenship, borders and borderlands
- Queer of color critique
- Activism and social justice movements
- Rights and care for incarcerated persons

Desired Outcomes:
- Intellectual collaboration
- Relationship-building across disciplines and fields
- Reimagining feminist, queer, and trans studies perspectives in the current moment
- Network-building

To Submit – Email QFT.UCDavis@gmail.com by May 13, 2019 at 11:59PM with the following information:
- Name and Institutional Affiliation
- Title of Talk
- Abstract, 300 word maximum