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Queering Armenian Studies Special Issue of Armenian Review With special issue editors: Tamar Shirinian, Ph.D. and Carina Karapetian Giorgi, Ph.D. What would it mean to examine Armenian culture queerly? To study or historicize Armenia through a queer lens? What would it mean to find a political aesthetics of a queer Armenia - through art, literature, performance or performativity? Or to analytically queer the experience of Armenianess? This special issue of the Armenian Review proposes to bring together scholars of Armenia and Armenianness from multiple disciplines - or interdisciplinary sites that include creative praxis like poetry and visual media - to think about how examining Armenia through a queer lens might be a fruitful endeavor that inventively recontextualizes the depth of Armenian studies within contemporary queer thought. Queerness, or “queer,” has been understood variably. Referring to practical, affective and subjective realms through oppositional relations to power (Cohen 1997), nonfixity, movement, a form of cruising (Munoz 2009), futurity, non-futurity (Edelman 2004), “feeling backward” (Love 2009), the embrace of negativity (Halberstam 2011, Edelman 2004), a promiscuity of promiscuity (Dean 2009), a form of animcy (Chen 2012), that which remains productively in/visible (Gopinath 2005, Stella 2012), the making of ethical worlds (Dave 2012) and so on – queer has become a kind of method through which to understand/read/experience the excesses of everyday life and feeling. How does this recontextualizing add to Armenian studies and what potential does it bring to queer studies? How might Armenian studies, in other words, add dimensions to understanding queer that may not have arisen or could not arise from other sites of inquiry? And what might be discovered about Armenianness or Armenia as a spatiotemporal configuration through this methodology? We call for scholarly articles that take up topics such as, but not limited to: • The impact of queer or feminist inquiry on investigation of domestic violence outside of a liberal framework • The impact of the Diaspora on the homeland, especially but not only the recent Syrian migration into the Republic and its impacts on emerging notions of nation – how the multiplicity of nation, in other words, queers our understandings of a singular Armenia • Globalization of gay (or LGBT identity) and its impacts on Armenia in the hayrenik (fatherland) and in the Diaspora • Closetedness – its potentials and downfalls – of sexual or other forms of being and practice • The queerness of diaspora and deterritorialization of nation • Intimacy and kinship • “Foreigness” (odarism) as it penetrates national boundaries • Queer politics emerging in Armenia that may or may not have ties to gender and sexual ‘injury’ • Futurity, temporality, pastness, present(less)ness, and the potentials of queering the national within history

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The eternal return of affects, tensions and anxieties pertaining to Genocide, catastrophe and ethnocide Critiques of liberalism as they inform or do not inform Armenian politics Other, or queer, narratives of liberalism within Armenia National propriety and its slippages into moral corruption or perversion Postsocialism’s postcolonial legacies and the queer mergings of new forms of (queer) resistance through the excesses of empire Queer methodological interventions into practices of reading, translation, aesthetics, and history-making

Articles that make use of ethnographic, archival, literary and otherwise empirical depth and probing analytic approaches will be considered. We also call for poetry, short story, prose, essay, and visual art that give these questions aesthetic urgency and respond in other ways. Submissions should be clear about what they mean by queer, methodological and theoretical approaches, and be relevant to currently existing Armenian studies. Deadline for all full submissions is March 12, 2017 with a possible publication date of Fall 2017 or Spring 2018. Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format (preferably in Microsoft Word) as an email attachment to both Tamar Shirinian ([email protected]) and Carina Karapetian Giorgi ([email protected]). All manuscripts submitted to the Armenian Review should be original, unpublished works and should not be under consideration for publication in any other journal at the time of submission. For inquiries regarding non-article submissions, please write to Tamar Shirinian or Carina Karapetian Giorgi at the addresses above. All Article submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two referees; therefore, authors are asked to prepare a separate cover page including their name, mailing/contact address, telephone number, e-mail address, and a 75 word biographical statement of the author(s). Each submission should also include a summary/abstract of the article, not to exceed 100 words. After the reviews are submitted by the referees, the Editor will notify the authors of the acceptance, rejection, or need for revision of the submission. Manuscripts should be on 8½ by 11" paper with 1" margins on all sides. The text should be double-spaced and use a size 12 font for the main text and size 10 for references. The submissions should have the following setup: title page and author(s)' information; main text; endnotes; bibliography. Submissions should not exceed 40 pages (including the endnotes and the bibliography). Citations should be endnotes (not footnotes) and should adhere to the guidelines found in The Chicago Manual of Style, latest edition. Accuracy of endnotes and tables is the responsibility of the author(s) and the editors reserve the right to turn down an article if it

does not adhere to this style. The “footnotes” function of the word-processing software should be used to create the endnotes rather than using the in-text author citation method. Works Cited Chen, Mel Y. 2012. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durham: Duke University Press. Cohen, Cathy. 1997. "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies no. 3:437-465. Dave, Naisargi. 2012. Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics. Durham: Duke University Press. Dean, Tim. 2009. Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edelman, Lee. 2004. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press. Gopinath, Gayatri. 2005. Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Culture. Durham: Duke University Press. Halberstam, Jack. 2011. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham: Duke University Press. Love, Heather. 2009. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Munoz, Jose Esteban. 2009. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press. Stella, Francesca. 2012. "The Politics of In/Visibility: Carving Out Queer Space in Ul'yanovsk." Europe-Asia Studies no. 64 (10):1822-1846.

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