EVENT – ‘Queer As Fish’
Posted by srmunt on February 26th, 2010
Hello everyone, this post is to invite you to my Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Tuesday May 18th at the Michael Chowen Lecture Theatre, BSMS, University of Sussex. The lecture is on scuba diving as ‘queer’, its culture, history and the experience of being underwater, lots of pictures!
Here is the blurb:
Name: Professor Sally R. Munt
Title: QUEER AS FISH
Abstract:
Cultural Studies is passionate about the ordinary and the everyday. As an academic subject it encourages a mindful, reflective consideration of lived experience, which helps us grasp culture not so much as being about ‘the best’ but as a whole way of life, a spun worsted with all of its woven habits and rituals, dreams and banality.
Moments of creativity and intense sensation punctuate this flow, perhaps most intentionally with leisure pursuits. This lecture looks specifically at SCUBA diving. We will consider the histories, technologies, practices, literature, politics, and ecology of SCUBA in our brief encounter with the aquatic. Fully immersing oneself within oceanic wonder brings perspectives from the non-human sublime back to the surface. SCUBA divers are queer frogmen, freakishly enhanced cyborgs, clad in a cold neoprene skin, and disciplined by quasi-military rules of order, a necessary defense against the disorder of the deep, we descend into the paranormality of the sea.
Everyone is welcome, this is a public event.
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