call for abstracts *CLOSED*:

we welcome  interdisciplinary proposals at the intersection of sexuality studies and night studies, with a particular focus on urban environments, on the following topics:
 

• the aesthetic, cultural and sexual dynamics of darkness as potential, chaos and transgression 
• intimacy and the urban night 
• gender performativity and the urban night 
• the fabric of the urban night: fashion criticism 
• sexual violence, sex-work and nightlife environments 
• the arts of the night: music, performance, urban night-cultures and venues 
• activism, night-time culture and night-time economy 
• accessibility and forms of exclusion from the urban night: mediated access / (dis)abled bodiness / agency 
• urban queer mobilities: migration, transport and their intersections with gender and sexuality 
• policing the night: surveillance strategies 
• subverting the night: promiscuity, excess, taboo and spaces of deviance 
• nocturnal cityscapes: mapping and zoning gender and sexuality 
• liminal/borderline/fungible urban spaces  
• queer ecologies: queer spaces as part of the urban ecosystem 
• sleep and insomnia 
• the online night 

for these topics, we welcome paper/panel/roundtable proposals (300 words max.) that focus on sexualities, urban life and the night, and speak to the fields of:

addiction studies / advertising  / age studies / critical race studies / cultural geography /    cultural studies / comparative literature / crip studies / digital humanities / film studies / gender studies / intercultural studies / media and communication studies / migration studies / psychology / queer studies / refugee studies / sexuality studies / urban studies / youth studies