IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 1541: Rebellion and Responsibility: Queer Bodies and Texts as Sites of Trauma and Protest

Sponsor:	Society for Queer Medieval Studies
Organisers:	Kate Maxwell, Musikkonservatoriet, UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet Teresa Pilgrim, School of Literature & Languages, University of Surrey
Moderator/Chair:	Kirsty Bolton, Department of English, University of Southampton
Respondent:	Kirsty Bolton, Department of English, University of Southampton
Paper 1541-a	Radical Transformation in the Company of Saints (Language: English) Teresa Pilgrim, School of Literature & Languages, University of Surrey Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English and Sexuality
Paper 1541-b	St Agatha against Me!: Chrono-Non-Normative Transformations and Queer Listenings (Language: English) Kate Maxwell, Musikkonservatoriet, UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Music and Sexuality
Abstract	This session will explore queer bodies and texts as witnesses of trauma and sites of protest. In particular, it seeks to use queer theory/ies (broadly conceived) and medieval texts/artefacts to understand and transform queer lives. Rooted in but not limited to the medieval, this session takes a chrono-non-normative and comparative approach across art, music, history, hagiography, and literature. Through this, the papers consider queer bodies (past and/or present) as a means of violence, transformation, and healing. Content warning: violence, abuse, sexual violence.