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<p>Queering Paradigms 7 CALL FOR PAPERS</p>
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<p>We are delighted to announce that the 7th Queering Paradigms Conference will be held on</p>
<p>11-12 June 2016 on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Venue: to be announced</p>
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<p>The 7th installment of the established Applied Queer Studies conference is organized by a group of Cayman Islands residents and LGBTIQ+ activists, under the sponsorship of Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), UK.</p>
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<p>After highly successful incarnations of QP in South America (2012, Rio de Janeiro; 2014 Quito) Queering Paradigms return to the Americas, for the first time taking place in the Caribbean Region.</p>
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<p>The particular aim of QP7 is to challenge Queer/LGBTIQ+ discrimination and to provide intellectual tools for empowerment of both academics and activists on the Cayman Islands and the wider Caribbean region.</p>
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<p>We welcome both papers with local and regional relevance and more general applied queer studies contribution under the themes:</p>
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<p>1) religion and faith</p>
<p>2) law, human rights and equality</p>
<p>3) HIV, health, mental health</p>
<p>4) sex work, abuse and trafficking</p>
<p>5) family and kinships</p>
<p>6) race, ethnicity and Caribbean Identities</p>
<p>7) activism, political participation and leadership 8) art and culture</p>
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<p>Please send abstracts and panel proposals by 4 April to both Olivia Connolly, President of the Student Society of the Truman Bodden Law School of the Cayman Islands, (olivia.connolly@me.com) and Professor Bee Scherer, CCCU (b.scherer@canterbury.ac.uk).</p>
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<p>Paper abstracts should be around 300 words long and include an indication whether the paper is intended to be an original (unpublished and not under review) contribution to the peer-reviewed QP7 book, to be published 2017 with Peter Lang, Oxford (containing
16-20 chapters).</p>
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