QueerCon Maastricht

QueerCon Maastricht, 1 – 2 July 2024

Monday, 1 July
9am	Registration Location: FASoS reception, Grote Gracht 90-92
9.30am	Conference opening Location: Turnzaal
9.50am – 11am	Research presentations: Relations Location: Turnzaal Chair: Shirin Ardalan Darko Ilin (University of Nova Gorica) *Queer Narratives in Slovene Prose: Interrogating Masculinity and Sexuality in Brane Mozetič's Works* Joey R. Stofberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) *LGBTQI+ Youth of Color in the Netherlands: Sources of Belonging, Empowerment, and Joy* Dyi Dieuwertje Huijg (University of Roehampton) *"‘I may as well just be myself’: preliminary reflections on ADHDers’ gender wandering and gender non-confirming ADHD identities"* Sandro Weilenmann (Maastricht University) *Bad Friends? Queer and trans raves in museum spaces* Vlinder Verouden (Utrecht University) *Seahorse Parents and Mother Queens: Toward an Archiving of Trans Pregnancy in the Netherlands*
Coffee break
11.20am – 12.30pm	Research presentations: Visibility Location: Turnzaal Chair: Pieter de Plessis Alina Ezhova (Charles University Prague) *Autobiographical Queer Writing in Russia: Strategies of Visibility and Silencing* Castor Brouwer (University of Amsterdam) *Film as an ‘enlightened witness’: queering ‘the bromance’ in an audience ethnography* Agnes Vilseki (Lusófona University Lisbon) *Beyond Queermuseum: researching the afterlife of a queer controversy through the appropriation of YouTube videos* Sara De Vuyst (Maastricht University) *Unruly archives of queer ageing and affect: an exploration of older queer women’s and non-binary people's experiences with media representations of ageing, gender and sexuality* Jerry Spanakis (Maastricht University) *Amplifying Queer Voices: Representation issues in the era of Large Language Models* Alex Filipiak (University of Amsterdam) *How do the queer and feminist organisations in the Netherlands implement collective identity and intersectionality?*
Lunch break
1.30pm – 2pm	Keynote concert: Daniel Scott Location: Turnzaal
2.15pm – 4pm	Workshop 1: Harro van Lente *Location: GG80-82 room 1.003* *Queer temporalities and (imaginaries of) the climate crisis*	Workshop 2: Haoyi Wang, Maaike Noorman, Hanne Zimmermann, Anton Eremin *Location: GG80-82 room 0.039* *Empowering choices in sexual health among MSM: A workshop on effective prevention and integrated sexual health services*	Workshop 3: Willow *Location: GG80-82 room 3.002* ICH BIN WARM! Fan-painting workshop	Workshop 4: Nina Nosal *Location: GG76S room 1.018* *Investigation of online queer spaces: using netnography techniques in research*
Coffee break
4.30pm – 6pm	Roundtable discussion: Queer and science Location: Turnzaal

8pm	Open Mic Night @Café Rosé, in collaboration with COC Limburg (free entry)

Tuesday, 2 July
9.30am	Registration Location: FASoS reception, Grote Gracht 90-92
9.50am – 11am	Research presentations: Institutions Location: Turnzaal Chair: Robyn Ausmeier Sarah Stutterheim (Maastricht University) *The Workplace Experiences of Transgender and Gender Diverse Employees: A Systematic Literature Review Using the Minority Stress Model (2000-2020)* Juan Román Mora Barrios (consultant for a Dutch NGO and a US based medical center) *An inclusive pathway for Public Health policy-making in the European Union. LGBTIQ+ representation* Marjolein Dennissen (Radboud University Nijmegen) *Collective killjoys?* *Unpacking the collective action of diversity networks* Deepak Joshi Pokhrel (journalist and independent researcher) *Legalization of same sex marriage in Nepal: key Challenges in its successful implementation* Alessandro Marcia (Maastricht University) *A Union of Equality: LGBTIQA+ rights in the EU*
Coffee break
11.30am – 12.30pm	Research presentations: Bodies Location: Turnzaal Chair: Marc Boas Michele Bertoni (Utrecht University) *Strange Sexual Encounters: Homonormativity of the Bodies* Plami Dimova (Radboud University, Utrecht University) *The biopolitical manifestations of hetero-nationalism in post-Soviet countries* Jaïr Alexander van Nes (Erasmus University Rotterdam) *Enacting neurogenders: a critical analysis of sex/gender within neuroscientific studies of transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people* Georgie Harriss (The University of Melbourne) That’s My Kink: Autofiction as BDSM Maz Jardon (University of Amsterdam) *Antisocial Reinscription in AIDS-era Extreme Horror*
Lunch break
1.30pm – 2pm	Keynote concert: Sam Coenen and Oleksandr Yukhymovych Location: Turnzaal
2.15pm – 4pm	Workshop 1: Harro van Lente *Location: GG80-82 room 1.003* *Queer temporalities and (imaginaries of) the climate crisis*	Workshop 2: Thomas Gültzow, Hanne Zimmermann *Location: GG80-82 room 0.039* *Making Research Look Like the World Looks: A Workshop on LGBTQIA+ Inclusion in Research*	Workshop 3: Farbod Nael, Willow *Location: GG80-82 room 3.002* “Sculpting Pride” Collaborative art workshop	Workshop 4: Nina Nosal *Location: GG76S room 1.018* *Investigation of online queer spaces: using netnography techniques in research*
Coffee break
4.30pm – 5.15pm	*Closing panel discussion* Location: Turnzaal

7.30pm	Film evening @Lumière cinema (free entry)