Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Saturday July 13 – Sunday July 14, 2024

University College London

This is the 27th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.

Great Writing includes research, teaching and creative writing practice topics. And more! The conference takes place right in the heart of Bloomsbury, close to the British Library, in London’s fabulous ‘Knowledge Quarter’ – https://www.knowledgequarter.london/  - with a great many wonderful accommodation and restaurant options.

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Stigmatised identities: Alternative Sexualities in/out of Normative Representations

The concept of ‘stigma’, including the many perspectives on stigmatised identities and processes of stigmatisation, is a crucial tool to focus on alternative sexualities and their representation. The issue has been addressed in numerous disciplinary fields, with studies attempting to understand stigma both generally in terms of social dynamics (Goffman 1963 and 1969; Becker 1963; Jones et al. 1984), and in its specific relation to sexuality (Herek 1998; Evans 2002).

We inhabit a moment of accelerated urbanization primarily driven by the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in urban planning and management, most ambitiously articulated in the promises of the ‘smart city’. The ubiquity of digital information infrastructures has reshaped the form, shape, and texture of cities. Contemporary urbanity has come to be defined by ICTs. As the social, experiential and physical spaces in the city are increasingly being experienced with and through data generated by networked digital devices, digital mediations exert profound impact on how urban spaces are being reconfigured, curated and navigated.