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intimate summer schoolthe good, the bad and the monsterqueers, crips and (other) misfits off the edge of the map14 — 18 may 2018museu da águacoimbra portugal

intimate summer schoolmonstersummerschool@ces.uc.pt

venue10:30 - 11:00Welcoming: Registration & Introductionsmuseu da água

seminar 09:30 - 11:00Disabling Matters and the Carnalityof ResistanceBruno Sena Martins

seminar 09:30 - 11:00Monstrous Archetypesare BecomingZowie Davy

seminar 09:30 - 11:00Monstrosityand the Colonial Archive: Intersectional Perspectives onthe Constructionof OthernessGaia Giuliani

exhbition 16:30Contra-Naturaofficial openingmuseu da água

opening lecture 11:00 - 13:00Embodied Epistemologies and Monstrous CitizenshipAna Cristina Santos

discussion 14:30 - 15:45Discussion Groups & Reporting

cinema

21:30 - tagvOne Zero One:The story of Cybersissy & baybjaneTim Lienhard

workshop 116:00 - 18:00Public SpaceRita Alcaire

discussion 14:30 - 15:45Discussion Groups & Reporting

workshop 216:00 - 18:00FanzinesMara Pieri

discussion 14:30 - 15:45Discussion Groups & Reporting

workshop 316:00 - 18:00BannersAna Lúcia SantosLuciana Moreira

discussion 14:30 - 15:45Discussion Groups & Reporting

party23:00 -out of the ClosetFora do Armário

march17:00 - 9th March Against Homophobia and Transphobia

discussion

14:30 - 15:45Discussion Groups & Reporting

seminar 11:30 - 13:00D.I.Y. Monsters. Autoethnographic Reflections on Trans, Queer, and Disability Frame Resonances and DissonancesAG Arfini

seminar 11:30 - 13:00The intersections of Queer andCrip TheoriesLucas Platero

seminar 11:30 - 13:00Black QueerBodies and Identities inPortugal: Intersectional Lives and ExperiencesJoacine Katar Moreira

closing lecture 11:30 - 13:00Monstrous Kinship? Queer Kinning Practices Beyond the Laws of Reproductionand RecognitionUlrika Dahl

break break break break break

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TuesdaY15 may

WedNesdaY16 may

THursdaY17 may

FridaY18 may

lunch provided lunch provided lunch provided lunch provided lunch provided

dinner-party20:30 - largo do poçoconcert22:30 - salão brazilVaiapraia & as rainhas do bailedj set

rui eduardo Paesrodrigo Vaiapraia

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the good, the bad and the monsterqueers, crips and (other) misfits off the edge of the map

The image of the monster has been historically used to epitomise danger, abnormality, sin. Even before angels, monsters were portrayed as messengers who anticipated catastrophes, such as storms and other dramatic events which would be too strong to be explained. Only good behaviour, submission to rules or faith into another in-explicable bigger entity, such as magic, witchcraft or religion, could prevent societies to be touched by monsters.

The othering of monsters – or monsters as estranged from an imagined«us» – is part of the cultural narrative that dismisses the complexity of what we call humans, contributing to the binary division between good and bad, silencing all of which exists in-between. Indeed, monstersinhabit the spaces in-between narrow definitions and expose the failureof rigid divisions between «normal» and «abnormal». Ultimately, the figure of monsters confronts us with the precariousness of by-default normativities, triggering the need to rethink what humanity is, and, ultimately, who counts as a human being.

The intimate summer school embraces monstrosity in what it offers regarding the undoing of binaries and the celebration of embodied dif-ferences. We aim to explore who are the contemporary monsters, what are the dichotomies they challenge and how narratives on monsters contribute to definitions of human. We want to explore monsters as a possible the oretical figuration to escape mainstream celebrations of humanity and to embrace the vivid possibilities offered by interdiscipli-nary, boundary crossing contributions from different fields of knowledge. We aim at creating spaces to discuss contributions and experiences that often fall out of the map even within critical studies.

Also, we interrogate the possibilities of creating knowledge from places of estrangement regarding mainstream sources of knowledge production in the academic fields of lgbtq and critical studies. Drawing on timely, interdisciplinary theoretical contributions and intersectional empirical work on queers, crips and other misfits, the intimate summer school will consolidate academic knowledge in the fields of sexual and gender dissidence, disability and other forms of embodied misfit.

intimatesummer school

speakers AG Arfini Ana Cristina SantosBruno Sena MartinsGaia Giuliani Joacine Katar Moreira Lucas Platero Ulrika Dahl Zowie Davy

organizing committee

Ana Cristina SantosAna Lúcia Santos Luciana MoreiraMafalda Esteves Mara PieriRita Alcaire

14 — 18 may 2018museu da águacoimbra portugal