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lambda nordica issue 29 volume 2-3 is out now!
Read more about Out now! Issue 29 (2-3)Narratives and technologies generally associated with popular genres like science fiction and speculative fiction – such as AI, robotics, virtual reality, biometrics, genetic engineering and reproductive and biomedical interventions – are increasingly becoming part of everyday life. This special issue of lambda nordica aims to explore queer and/or crip interventions in this nexus of technologies and narratives, which currently saturate the present with notions of futurity, weaving in and out of the speculative imagination.
Read more about Call for papers: Speculative Futurities – Queer and Crip InterventionsWith this CFP to be included in an issue of lambda nordica about the intersection between animal studies and queer studies, we aim to further the knowledge in this field. Some of the questions we wish to address are: How can non-human perspectives challenge heteronormative notions of a binary gender system and different kinds of sexual activities, drives and desires? In what ways are categories such as ethnicity, race, class, age and functionality operating in the production of “human” and “non-human”? To what extent can queer perspectives shed light on the connection between reproduction, chronological time and capitalism in the meat- and dairy industry? How can emotional connections between humans and animals renew perceptions of intimacy, family and sexuality? Which ethical questions arise in the intersection between animal studies and queer studies? How do cultural representations of animals correspond to societal norms regarding gender, sexuality, and species? In what ways do corporeality, vulnerability and violence relate to queerness and the human/animal divide?
Read more about Call for papers: Queering Animal Studies/Animalizing Queer StudiesWith this special issue of lambda nordica, we invite scholars to explore the breadth and scope of contemporary queer studies of heterosexuality—of heterosexual lives, texts, practices, and experiences. The issue is situated at the intersection of critical heterosexuality studies and queer theory, asking how changes in societal understandings of heterosexuality impact the way queer studies can and should engage with it. What can queer theory bring to studies of heterosexuality, and what can studies of heterosexuality bring to contemporary queer theory? What challenges and possibilities face us when we turn our queer(ing) gaze towards heterosexuality today?
Read more about Call for papers: Heterosexualitylambda nordica issue 29 volume 1 is out now!
Read more about Out Now! Sex at the Borders: Queering Transnational Historieslambda nordica issue 28 volume 4 is out now!
Read more about Out now! Issue 28 (4): Open issueAll members are welcome to join the digital annual meeting of the Association Lambda Nordica, March 19 at 18.00. To participate, contact info@lambdanordica.org. Welcome!
Read more about Annual meeting 2024Vi söker nu en ny chefredaktör för lambda nordica med tillträde från 1 januari 2025. Klicka på "Read more" för mer information. Sista ansökningsdag 15 april 2024.
Read more about lambda nordica letar ny chefredaktör!In this special issue by guest editors Mia Liinasson and Olga Sasunkevich on the tensions and temporalities of Pride parades and Pride politics are considered a phenomenon where local, national, and transnational contestations – but also solidarities – intersect, where unexpected alliances are built, and where political messages are sent, albeit sometimes rather subtly. In addition to a contextualizing foreword by the guest editors, the issue contains four research articles, one We’re Here and four reviews.
Read more about Out Now! Issue 28 (2-3): The Tensions and Temporalities of Pride Politics - Transnational Travels and Situated LocalesThis first issue of 2023 is an open issue which includes three research articles that together are indicative of the methodological and theoretical scope of contemporary queer studies – they range from digital ethnographic to discourse analysis of media material and archival research. The double bind of visibility is a common theme in all of them.
Read more about Out now! Open issue 2023 no 1This special issue examines contemporary anti-gender politics. In what ways can queer-theoretical approaches to anti-gender politics offer meaningful insights into and new perspectives on how to respond to and complicate the analysis of reactionary mobilisations, inside and outside of the academy?
Read more about Out now! Anti-gender politics and queer theoryAll members are welcome to join the annual meeting of the Association Lambda Nordica, Tuesday March 28 at 18.30.
The meeting is held in Stockholm, with the possibility of digital participation via Zoom—we kindly ask you to contact info@lambdanordica.org for information on venue and/or link.
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lambda nordica is seeking proposals for special issues to appear in 2026 and 2027.
Read more about Call for Special Issue ProposalsThe journal is now looking for an editorial assistant to complement the editorial team, with preferred start date in January-February 2023, for an initial two years. This is a great opportunity for scholars with a keen interest in developing queer and LGBTQI+ scholarly publishing further in Nordic Europe and beyond; the task yields much room for creativity and provides a platform for developing a good overview of the scholarly field and establishing research contacts. A small compensation is rendered annually.
Read more about Call for Expressions of Interest: Editorial AssistantWith an editorial that urges us all to (re)turn to queer scholarly work on the use of the spectre of LGBT in nationalist movements in Russia, and to work that show how femonationalism and homonationalism legitimise anti-multiculturalism and Islamophobia in a Europe at War, we are happy to provide lambda nordia readers, old and new, with a brand new issue!
Read more about Out now! Open issue 2022 no. 2The aim of this special issue is to shed light on how neo-liberalization and increased nationalism and populism, as well as right-wing populism within the Nordic region is (re)shaping the LGBTI community along normativising lines, leading to a further minoritisation of those already facing precarity and exclusion. We invite transdisciplinary scholarly papers, short essays, reviews, artwork and commentary pieces across social sciences and humanities.
Read more about Call for papers: Homonationalism and Right-Wing Political DiscoursesThis special issue explores the concept SKEV (skewed, queer) in current research, continuing the investigation of how this concept can change and develop. The issue is published in Swedish and Norweigian.
Read more about Out Now! Tema SKEVIn this special issue, we are interested in what kind of queer intimacies, families and companionships are emerging and imagined now in current Nordic contexts and beyond, including transnational contexts. In what kind of affective, discursive, material and social entanglements do they take shape and change?
Read more about Call for Papers: Queering intimacies, families and companionshipsAll members are welcome to join the annual meeting of the Association Lambda Nordica, Wednesday March 23 at 18.30.
Read more about Annual meetinglambda nordica is looking for a new book review editor to complement the editorial team. This is a great opportunity for somebody with a keen interest in developing queer and LGBTQI+ scholarly publishing further in Nordic Europe and beyond; the task yields much room for creativity and provides a platform for developing a good overview of the scholarly field...
Read more about Call for Expressions of Interest: Book Review EditorIt is that time of the year, winter is coming, the new year is in sight, and we gather to reckon with the past year. It is almost to the date a full year since the first issue under our editorship was published, and we would therefore like to take the opportunity to reminisce and look ahead. ...
Read more about Note from the editorsOur latest issue queries the processes of biomedicalization, the structures of biomedical knowledge and the force of biomedicine as an institution of social control, and aims to expand the object of biomedical and health research and practice to the specific experiences and bodies of queer people, along with others who do not fit into dominant normative frameworks.
Read more about Out Now! Queering Health and BiomedicineReflecting upon the intellectual and political preoccupations that unify those theorizing and imagining at the intersection of Black feminist thought/theory, critical race theory, and queer studies, what emerges is how the rampant racialized violences that continue to operate in the “wake” (Sharpe 2016) of the transatlantic slave trade and settler-colonialism shape BIPOCs’ contemporary experiences of subjugation and performances of subversion. Contemplating the racist mechanisms that seek to restrain bodies of colour in place alongside the oppositional techniques that queer, trans, and gender non-conforming BIPOCs persistently employ to claim their bodies in space, this special issue asks: if BIPOC bodies are so often situated through the twinned sites of racist desire and racist derision, how can our bodies be re-appropriated, re-modelled, or re-imagined as sites of subversion as we inhabit them in ways that repel, problematize or taunt the racist gaze?
Read more about Call for Papers: Troubling Racismlambda nordica is seeking proposals for special issues to appear in 2024 and 2025. Any theme that corresponds with the profile of the journal is welcome!
Read more about Call for Special Issue ProposalsThe first issue of 2021 includes – amongst other texts – articles on hook-up app research, kink memes in digital fandom cultures, how youth health clinics in Sweden approach clients with vulvar pain, and a We’re Here contribution on the political significance of breathing.
Read more about Out Now! Open Issue, no 1 (2021)Our latest issue explores queer world-making, utopian visions, and tensions between sexual and national belonging in Nordic and Baltic cinema cultures. Who and what are the subjects that can inhabit and become legible within national, regional, sexual, gendered and racialized categories?
Read more about Out Now! Nordic Queer CinemaThe idea of pride continues to travel across the globe to promote visibility and validity of LGBTI+ people. Yet, as a political movement and community of belonging, pride politics takes shape as a contested field in situated locales, at once challenged and cherished, bringing forth critical questions of the agendas, tactics and visions of its ever-increasing popularity. This special issue invites papers that draw on various types of ethnographic, empirical and theoretical approaches, with the aim to scrutinize the emergent tensions and temporalities of pride politics through its many shifting times and contexts, transnationally as well as locally.
Read more about Call for Papers: The tensions and temporalities of pride politicsWe are excited to introduce the new editors-in-chief of lambda nordica, Erika Alm and Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, who from no 2/2020 are in charge of the content of the journal.
Read more about lambda nordica proudly presents our new editors-in-chiefThe new issue of lambda nordica, “Queer Concepts for the 2020s” (no 4/2019-1/2020), will be the last one edited by Jenny Björklund and Ulrika Dahl, who are ending their terms as editors-in-chief of the journal. We, the Board of the journal, wish to extend our sincere and heartfelt thanks to Drs Björklund and Dahl for their long and diligent work as editors.
Read more about Thank You Drs Björklund and Dahl for your long and diligent work as editors!lambda nordica is seeking proposals for special issues to appear in 2022 and 2023.
Read more about Call for Special Issue ProposalsThis special issue aims to offer a platform for mapping and analyzing anti-gender campaigns around the world as well as for incisive queer-theoretical reflections on central characteristics that shape anti-gender politics’ premise, practice, and growth.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: Anti-Gender Politics and Queer TheoryDetta temanummer av lambda nordica syftar till att undersöka hur skevbegreppet har utvecklats och hur det används idag. Vad kan vi göra med skev som inte kunnat göras tidigare? Hur förhåller sig skev till queer; kan begreppen användas parallellt eller bidrar de med olika saker? Vilka olika typer av normbrott kan skev beteckna?
Read more about Call for Papers: SkevIn the present Nordic audiovisual media landscape, queer and trans characters and themes are more visible than ever. LGBTQ roles are increasingly being included in large broadcast drama series as well as in smaller web formats. Social media sites provide new audiovisual platforms for queer and trans media content, celebrity, activism and community building. The number of queer film festivals and events is steadily increasing. Still, despite the image of Nordic LGBTQ friendliness and increasing attention to diversity in cultural policies, queer and trans filmmaking and representation in feature length fiction remain relatively scarce. This special issue of lambda nordica on Nordic Queer Cinema and Media aims to address contemporary aspects of queer audiovisual publicity and world-making, as well as the history of queer cinema and media in the Nordic region.
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This issue of lambda nordica began from a familiar framing in these times: What is “new” in queer studies? The issue presents a number of emerging scholars, and topics that are being pursued in PhD theses and postdoctoral projects in a range of disciplines, as well as reflections on new queer art.
Read more about Out Now! New Nordic Queer Research, Issue 3-4 2018All members are welcome to the annual meeting of the association Lambda Nordica, on monday March 5, 18.30, at Djurgårdens hembygdsförening, Skampålens torg, vid Breda gatan och Östra varvsgatan, Djurgårdsstaden, Stockholm.
Read more about Annual MeetingIt has been almost thirty years since Teresa de Lauretis organized the conference at UC Santa Cruz from which queer theory emerged. While starting as a provocation, queer theory has in some ways become normalized as it has been integrated into academic disciplines and course syllabi all over the world. But it has also developed in many directions, and new concepts have come into use to facilitate for queer theory to keep its critical potential and provocative edge. This special issue of lambda nordica aims to address the status of queer theory today, with a particular focus on its theoretical concepts.
Read more about Call for Papers: Queer Concepts for the 2020sWhat is the status of queer readings today? Next issue of lambda nordica is a double special issue on queer readings, which has departed from this question, and the contributions show that queer reading practices are highly relevant as well as wide in scope. They display a variety of different queer approaches to literature and texts, and the contributors focus on different genres as well as texts from different time periods. The issue confirms that queer readings is a vital field with the critical potential to challenge norms and power structures, but also to discover new ways in which power operates. Read the new issue here.
Read more about New issue 1-2/2018 Queer readings/Reading the queerLambda Nordica's annual meeting will be held Monday, March 12, 2018, at 6.30pm at Noaks Arks, Eriksbergsgatan 46, Stockholm, Sweden.
Read more about Annual meeting 2018lambda nordica is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal of LGBTQ studies. The oldest of its kind in the Nordic region, the journal is dedicated to interdisciplinary research in lesbian/gay/bi/trans* and queer studies.
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lambda nordica
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Gothenburg University
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Sweden
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