At the Crossroads Conference @AtCConference
“At the Crossroads: Narratives of the Excluded” Conference taking place online from September 24th to September 25th, 2020. CFP Deadline: 20 August 2020. AtTheCrossroadsConference.com online Joined July 2020-
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The #Acnec2020 Conference is officially over now. Thank you all for the inspiring presentations, talks, and ideas! This was an amazing experience and we hope we'll be (e-)seeing all of you in the future!
The second day of #acnec2020 starts in just a few minutes! Remember that you can still join us if want to chat with our amazing Presenters and Attendees! #OnlineConference atcconference.wordpress.com/friday/
The first day of #acnec2020 is over! It was amazing, inspiring, and immensely positive: all thanks to our amazing Presenters and Attendees! Statistics tell us that today the presentations were seen over 500 times by 95 visitors. See you in twelve hours! #OnlineConference
The #acnec2020 Narratives of the Excluded Conference has now officially started! This note was pinned to a board in our kitchen over a year ago and now it's finally happening! 💙❤️💚🤍🧡💛💜🖤🤎
The first day of the Conference starts in an hour🥳! We have 40 people registered on Discord but there is always room for more so if you haven't registered, you can do still do it and participate in the discussions (perks of the #OnlineConference) tiny.cc/acnec2020
Keynote lecture recorded by Edyta Frelik is available on our website! The exceptional talk on "Overexposed, Underexposed: Georgia O'Keeffe's Strategies Against Seeing Less Than Half the Picture" will be discussed on Discord on Friday! Watch it here: tiny.cc/EdytaF
The keynote lecture by Bonnie “Bo” Ruberg is now online! We are very excited to have @MyOwnVelouria talk on "The Queer Games Avant-Garde" and discuss it with us on Discord on Thursday! Check out this inspiring lecture here: tiny.cc/BonnieR
P33 has Joseph Hurtgen (@josephhurtgen) discussing the pronouncement of power through invisibility in H.G Well’s novel: “The Invisible Man is Never Invisible: The Hegemonic Subjugation of Invisible Bodies” #acnec2020 #JHInATC tiny.cc/JHInATC
P32 has Steven Dashiell (@Dashiellsteven) discussing how the discourses of sexual assault on men in the military reinforce hegemonic masculinities: “Deconstructing Masculine Discourse Discussing Male Military Sexual Trauma” #acnec2020 #SDMasATC tiny.cc/SDMasATC
P31 has Bryce Stout discussing the masculinities in the context of competitive gaming: “Everyone is Here? An ethnographic exploration of competitive Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” #acnec #BSEthATC tiny.cc/BSEthATC
P30 has Bobbi Ali Zaman (@bbializaman) & Ben Anderson-Nathe discussing the social construction of a child and childhood: “Queering Developmental Discourses: Countering the Social Construction of Childhood and its Implications in Media” #acnec #BAZChATC tinyurl.com/BAZChATC
P29 has Sarah Merton (@sociology_sarah) discussing the policing of feminine corpulence within patriarchal society: Shame, Blame and Weighing Scales: Fighting for Fat Female Visibility on Instagram” #acnec2020 #SMFaATC tiny.cc/SMFaATC
P28 has Anna Oleszczuk (@strzyqa) & Agata Waszkiewicz (@AgaWaszkiewicz) discussing customization in video games through the lenses of queer theory: “Queering Virtual Bodies: Customization in Western Video Games” #acnec2020 #AOAWATC tiny.cc/AOAWATC
P27 has Renata Ntelia (@Strouthas) discussing the pleasure derived from romance as a means of rejecting patriarchy: “How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance” #acnec2020 #RNRomATC tiny.cc/RNRomATC
P26 has Paulina Szymonek discussing the concepts of wildness and captivity in light of the queer ecofeminist theory: “Wolves in the City of Domesticated Women: The Queer Wild of Olivia Rosenthal” #acnec2020 #PSzDomATC tiny.cc/PSzDomATC
P25 has Stephen C. Kenyon-Owen (@oozelumbird) discussing the adaptations of the life and death of Joyce Vincent: “When we disappear – (re)telling stories of loss” #acnec2020 #SCKOLoATC tiny.cc/SCKOLoATC
P24 has Anna Bendrat discussing the relationship of characters in Angels in America through the concept of edgework: ’I don’t think you should be in this hallucination’: The thresholds of revelation in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America #acnec2020 #ABHalATC tiny.cc/ABHalATC
P23 has Md Abu Shahid Abdullah discussing the empowerment of the marginalized voices in Indian and South-African novels in a panel “Rewriting the Past and Voicing the Marginalised” #acnec202 #ASAReATC tiny.cc/ASAReATC
P22 has Jędrzej Olejniczak and Patrycja Karpińska discussing language in erotic novels: “The emancipated and the submissive: A research project on the representations of men and women in translated erotic literature” #acnec2020 #JOPKErATC tiny.cc/JOPKErATC

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