Queer(ing) Space(s), from Antiquity to the Present

Organised by Dr Ewan Harrison & Dr Joshua Mardell FSA 

With a transnational/transcultural and – no less critically – transtemporal outlook, the aim of the conference is to help fill a lacuna in architectural history, heritage and planning, material culture studies, the history of collections, and aligned disciplines, and capture pluralistic, pioneering work around the theme of queerness in architecture. The conference will tap into themes of sexuality and gender fluidity, the archaeology of identity, and debates around the concepts of heteronormativity and homonormativity, being examined broadly across the Fellowship. “Queer space” will also be considered in terms of the methodological, theoretical and historiographical “space” of queerness/queering; indeed, queer theorists have long interrogated the architectural and spatial metaphors of queer experience.