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DTSTART:19960101T000000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:19961027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261104T072137Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270324T150000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270324T170000 SUMMARY:CSWG Graduate Seminar: "Intimate and Contested Worlds: Sexuality\ , Belonging\, Representation and Technology" TZID:Europe/London UID:20270324-8ac672c5a17b89ad01a17d2b309530c6@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261027T114224Z DESCRIPTION:Click on this link to join the seminar. Isabella Taylor Unive rsity of Warwick Your Digital Dream Girl: How AI Girlfriends Enforce Gen dered Expectations of Beauty and Emotional Labour Zoi Arvanitidou’s arti cle ‘Coded Femininity’ and Ellen Atlanta’s Pixel Flesh explores how wome n are compelled to digitally alter their bodies\, where biases are encod ed within AI algorithms reproduce the images of slender\, conventionally attractive women it has been trained on. The AI girlfriend takes this t o the extreme. A woman unburdened by her body\, she can be reshaped\, ed ited at the will of her user. ‘Outsourcing Love’ recognises that AI comp anions repeatedly take on the appearance of youthful\, beautiful women\, reporting that this may have a positive effect on the self-esteem of me n interacting with beautiful fem-bots\, the impact it can have on their ability to form meaningful connections with real women\, and the objecti fication it encourages\, is concerning. Many chatbots also promise emoti onal and sexual fulfilment\, locked behind a paywall that entices users to spend on subscriptions and cosmetics in return for perceived affectio n. Reducing women to purchasable objects further encourages objectificat ion\, despite no real woman being involved. The chatbot acts as a simula crum created to please\, with no desires of her own- aside from the ones you pick for her. When the AI girlfriend reflects the ‘perfect woman’ t his further contributes to pressures women face. Kit Pyne-Jaeger Columbi a University The Perverse Past: Lee Edelman\, Vernon Lee\, and Anti-Repr oductive Archival Fictions This presentation takes up the supernatural f iction of Vernon Lee and the queer negativity of Lee Edelman\, namesakes a century apart\, to map a sexually transgressive conceit of archival a nd historical engagement in Lee’s work. I argue that Lee envisions archi val objects as sites for a practice of speculative historiography in whi ch individualized affective and aesthetic response constitutes an altern ative narrative space that “bulges” (Lee’s own term) into evidentiary re ality. Reading Lee via Edelman’s formulation of the queer death drive\, I suggest that this narrative space is one of erotic perversity\, queer fatality\, and anti-reproductive allure: dense with imaginative and quee r potential\, it also threatens to estrange the creative historian from self and tangible present. In this space\, Lee’s archival methodology is articulated through a series of ghosts\, phantoms of the (un)historical past who figure the sexual non-normativity and temporal inversion she a ssociates with speculative history-making. From a female serial murderer who enchants a historian through letters to the voice of an Italian cas trato that begins to possess a composer\, Lee’s complexly gendered ghost s illustrate what Edelman terms the “inarticulable surplus that dismantl es the subject\,” a queerness in opposition to futurity that emerges fro m a passionate excess of archival feeling. Kianna Hinds London School of Economics (LSE) Dominating Images: Framing Black Lesbian Identities Acr oss Global Cinema Film serves as a viable site of analysis for sexuality \, functioning as a vehicle to analyse the normalised and disavowed sexu al behaviours and identities in the social world. Building on Patricia H ill Collins’s (1991) theory of controlling Images\, this paper develops a theoretical typology\, Dominating Images\, to conceptualise how transn ational media frame and construct Black lesbian identities. I argue that despite contemporary liberatory portrayals\, global cinema reproduces s ystemic violence by confining Black lesbian representations to three pri mary Dominating Images: the perpetual lesbian victim\, marginal high fem me\, and aggressive stud. Using Black feminist discourse analysis and so cial constructionist theory\, this paper dissects these tropes across fi lms from the UK\, Jamaica\, Amsterdam and South Africa. Through close te xtual readings of Zanele Muholi & Peter Goldsmid’s Difficult Love (2010) \, Micah Fink’s The Abominable Crime (2011)\, and Campbell X’s Stud Life (2012)\, the analysis shows how intersecting social identities of race\ , gender\, and sexuality influence Black lesbian cinematic images. This paper examines how both mainstream and independent cinema often deny bla ck lesbians authentic\, whole representations\, offering a critical fram ework for decoding the visual politics of race\, gender and sexuality in contemporary film. Jiayu Shi University of Strathclyde Making Scotland Home: Queer Belonging among Chinese Postgraduate Students This paper exa mines how queer Chinese postgraduate students come to imagine Scotland a s a possible home. Drawing on qualitative interviews with LGBTQ+ student s who completed their undergraduate education in mainland China before m oving to Scotland for postgraduate study\, it explores how belonging dev elops through ordinary experiences of recognition\, intimacy\, safety an d everyday life. Rather than treating migration as a straightforward mov ement from repression to freedom\, the paper shows how the possibility o f staying is produced unevenly. Participants described becoming attached to Scotland through mundane routines\, friendships\, intimate relations hips and a reduced need to manage or conceal their queer lives. Yet thes e attachments remained conditional. Immigration status\, employment pros pects\, class resources and obligations to family in China continued to shape whether a future in Scotland could be imagined or sustained. I arg ue that queer homemaking is best understood as an ongoing and relational process rather than a settled sense of belonging. “Home” emerges throug h the accumulation of ordinary practices that make particular forms of q ueer life more liveable\, while remaining constrained by transnational a nd structural inequalities. LOCATION:Online via Teams URL:https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/grad uateseminars202627/session4/ ATTACH:https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/g raduateseminars202627/session4/ CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T114224Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR