Bored with Queer. What's Next?

Seminar Room, Level 4, Charles Pinfold Building, OU, Milton Keynes

International Development seminar hosted jointly with the OU's Citizenship & Governance SRA on Engaged Scholarship. The seminar will be presented by Professor Angelia Wilson (University of Manchester) with discussant Dr MJ Barker (OU).

To reserve your free place, please contact Michelle Stevens.

Abstract
The presentation will explore the concept of political boredom. Taking as her starting point the political move away from clear ideological divisions within politics and towards a, broadly speaking, post-modern more fluid politics, Professor Angelia Wilson will ask 'What’s next?'. Is the answer 'post-truth' politics? Is the answer fragmented communities of interest full of hate for the 'other'? What insights does queer politics offer as we think about the future of politics?

The seminar will intentionally challenge 'us' to think about the context, temporality and future of 'queer' and of politics more broadly.

Speaker
Angelia R Wilson is a Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. She co-organised the UK first LGBT academic conference twenty-three years ago and has published widely in the field of sexuality and politics including Activating Theory (co-edited with Joseph Bristow), A Simple Matter of Justice and Why Europe Is Lesbian & Gay Friendly: And America Never Will Be. Her recent research focuses on the American political right.

She is a regular media commentator of American politics appearing on the BBC Breakfast, BBC One News, BBC World Service and various radio programmes.

From April, Professor Wilson will be the Chair of the Political Studies Association.