Queer Bibliography In the Making (QB2025)
Location: Newcastle University, UK and Online
About the Conference
“Queer Bibliography 2025: in the Making” is the third instance of the annual Queer Bibliography Symposium, first begun by Malcolm Noble and Sarah Pyke in 2023. This year’s conference theme provides an opportunity for participants to come together and consider how material texts are made, unmade, and remade queerly by an array of agents engaged in literary, textual, and material invention, including scribes, printers, typefounders, papermakers, bookbinders, readers, booksellers, collectors, librarians, publishers, and editors. It will feature two days of panel presentations, and a third day devoted to a hands-on Zine workshop.
It is hosted at Newcastle University and runs 11-13 June, both in person and online. Attendance is free with registration. Deadline to register is 9 June!
Event Details
Pocket Schedule:
11 June: 12pm-6pm BST (UTC +1): panel presentations with breaks followed by a presentation from the Queer Armenian Library. In-person attendees will be presented with dinner options for small groups.
12 June: 12pm-7pm BST (UTC +1): panel presentations with breaks followed by a panel discussion sponsored by Brill on the recently-published Gender and the Book Trades. In-person attendees will be presented with dinner options for small groups.
13 June: 12pm-3pm BST (UTC +1): an optional Making workshop focused on the creation of a conference-themed Zine. Participation will be available in-person and via Zoom.
2025 Organising Committee:
Sam Bailey (Newcastle University), Beth DeBold (Newcastle University), Kirsten MacLeod (Newcastle University), Malcolm Noble (Leicester Vaughan College), Sarah Pyke (University of Münster), Kadin Henningsen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Dylan Lewis (University of Maryland)