QGrad 2008 - LGBTQ Studies

LOS ANGELES QUEER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2008

LOS ANGELES QUEER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2008 Tenth Anniversary Conference
Friday and Saturday, October 10-11, 2008 Royce Hall, UCLA
Program Overview
Friday	1:00 2:45 4:00 5:30 6:30	Plenary Panel: Diasporic Sexualities Plenary Panels: Queer Art // Trans Studies Panel Session One Reception Performance
Saturday	9:00 10:45 12:15 1:15 3:00 4:45 5:45	Panel Session Two Plenary Panel: Women on Women Lunch Plenary Panel: Queer Studies in the Social Sciences Panel Session Three Plenary: Cheryl Dunye Reception
General Information
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY
1:00-2:30		Plenary Panel Diasporic Sexualities 314 Royce Moderator: Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California, English and Gender Studies Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Yale University, Anthropology and African American Studies “Find Yourself a Friend”: Black Resistance and Self-making Gayatri Gopinath, NYU, Social and Cultural Analysis Queer Regions Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Queer Returns: Human Rights, the Anglo-Caribbean, and Diaspora Politics
2:45-3:45		Plenary Panels A: Queer Art and Visual Culture 314 Royce Catherine Lord, UC Irvine, Art Richard Meyer, University of Southern California, Art History Art and Queer Culture: A Collaboration B: Trans Studies Meets Queer Studies 306 Royce Moderator: Talia Bettcher, Cal State, Los Angeles, Philosophy Jacob Hale, Cal State Northridge, Philosophy Thinking Trans Studies Separately from Queer Studies Viviane Namaste, Concordia University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute Trans Studies and Queer Studies: Intersections in English, Collisions in Other Languages?
4:00-5:30		Panel Session One Gender Variance 150 Royce Moderator: David Valentine, University of Minnesota, Anthropology Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro, Franklin & Marshall College, Spanish Masculinities at War: Mexico Marimacho and the Female Soldier Reid Uratani, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Political Science Problematizing Paradise: The Hawaiian Transgender Body as a Site of Colonization Laurel Westbrook, UC Berkeley, Sociology Producing Transgender: The Defining and Promotion of the Term “Transgender” in the Trans Community Press
		Recent Scholarship on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy Organized by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law 314 Royce Moderator: Gary Gates, UCLA, Senior Research Fellow, Williams InstituteDoug NeJaime, Sears Law Teaching Fellow, UCLA, Williams Institute Cause Lawyering in the “Culture War”Naomi Goldberg, Cooper Public Policy Fellow, UCLA, Williams Institute Gay Boomers: Inequalities Facing Gays and Lesbians in Retirement Michael Steinberger, Public Policy Fellow, UCLA, Williams Institute Wage and Employment Differences by Sexual Orientation
		Avant Garde Art 152 Royce Moderator: Richard Meyer, University of Southern California, Art HistoryClaire Ruud, Southwestern University, Art History Queer Adventures: Feminist and Queer Impulses in Eleanor Antin’s 1976 Adventures of a NurseRobert Summers, UCLA, Art History Pictures that Queer: Politics/Aesthetics of Mourning
		Queering US History 148 Royce Moderator: Catherine Lord, UC Irvine, ArtKyla Schuller, UC San Diego, Literature Dr. Queer, Medicine Man-LadyL. Chase Smith, UC San Diego, Literature Bawdy Amusements and the Undergarments of “Progress” at San Diego’s Panama-California Exposition (1915-1916) Jennifer Worley, City College of San Francisco, English “Street Power” and the Claiming of Public Space: San Francisco’s Vanguard Youth Group and Pre-Stonewall Queer Radicalism
5:30-6:30		Reception 306 Royce
6:30		Queer Performance Macgowan Little TheaterAdelina Anthony Mastering Sex and Tortillas!My Barbarian Non-Western
SATURDAY
9:00-10:30		Panel Session Two Deceiving Constructions: Black Gendered Bodies in Art, Time, Space 150 Royce Moderator: Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Yale University, Anthropology and African American Studies Deborah Alkamano, University of Southern California, American Studies “The Negation of the Negation”: Queer Cuts, Kara Walker’s Aesthetic Talia Bettcher, Cal State Los Angeles, Philosophy Gender Deception, Modesty, and Race Jennifer DeClue, Cal State Los Angeles, Race, Gender, Media Studies “Getting Aggressive”: A Black Feminist Reading of Daniel Peddle’s The Aggressives
		Queer Musical Genealogies 162 Royce Moderator: Mitchell Morris, UCLA, MusicologyJeremy Mikush, UCLA, Musicology Magical Dreamers, Bewitching Gypsies: Voice and Power in the Queer Rock DivaZarah Ersoff, UCLA, Musicology Velvet Goldmine’s Queer Mythologies Bethany Smith, University of Cincinnati, Musicology Inside the “Box”: Representations of Sexual, Spatial, and Aural Confinement within Tori Amos’s “Raspberry Swirl.'”
		Queer Urbanity 160 Royce Moderator: Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania, EnglishSam See, UCLA, English Djuna Barnes’s Concentrated CampGeneva Gano, Stanford University, English Race, Sex, and Queer Aesthetics in Nathanael West’s Los Angeles James Landau, UCLA, English Queer Diasporas: Reading Mobility in James Baldwin’s Another Country
		Globalization and the Human 314 Royce Moderator: Steven Epstein, UC San Diego, SociologyChaitanya Lakkimsetti, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology “How Should I Know That My Ass Belongs to the State?” Globalization, Anti-Sodomy Law, and the Discursive Struggles around Homosexuality in Postcolonial IndiaChantal Nadeau, Concordia University, Communication Studies Queer Walls Sybille N. Nyeck, UCLA, Political Science Mobilizing Against the Invisible: Erotic Nationalism, Mass Media, Paranoia, and the Politics of Contempt in Cameroon
		Mediated Queer Socialities and Identities 156 Royce Moderator: Mary L. Gray, Indiana University, Communication and CultureJulie Rosso, Brown University, Modern Culture and Media Labors of Love: Economies of Identity in The L Word’s Fan-Driven Online PromotionsAlexis Lothian, University of Southern California, English Doing Boys Like They’re Girls, and Other (Trans)Gendered Subjects: The Queer Subcultural Politics of “Genderfuck” Fan Fiction Jill A. Bakehorn, UC Davis, Sociology Bordering on Activism: Authenticity and Identity Politics in Women-Made Porn
10:45-12:15		Plenary Panel Women on Women 314 Royce Moderator: Sue-Ellen Case, UCLA, Theater Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania, English Gyn/Apology Juana María Rodríguez, UC Berkeley, Gender and Women’s Studies Sex, Sociality and Other Queer Possibilities Valerie Traub, University of Michigan, English and Women’s Studies Early Modern Sex Acts
12:15-1:15		Lunch
1:15-2:45		Plenary Panel Queer Studies in the Social Sciences: Ethics, Politics, Epistemics 314 Royce Moderator: Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Steven Epstein, UC San Diego, Sociology Queer Biocitizenship: Biomedicine, Sexuality, and Politics Mary L. Gray, Indiana University, Communication and Culture Engaging Vulnerable Subjects: Queering Social Science Research at the Twilight of the Public University David Valentine, University of Minnesota, Anthropology Becoming An Other, or: How My Methodology Gave Me an Identity
3:00-4:30		Panel Session Three Alternative Kinships 162 Royce Moderator: Sandra Harding, UCLA, Education and Women’s Studies Yin-Chin Chen, University of Oregon, Journalism Bodies and Spaces: Transnational Ethnic and Sexual Identities inSaving Face Yael Mishali, Tel Aviv University, Cultural Studies My Mother’s Daughter or: Could I be a Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) Lesbian? Alvin Ka Hin Wong, UC San Diego, Literature Queering the Sinophone: Alternative Kinships at the Margin of Chineseness
		Thinking Race and Sex 150 Royce Moderator: Viviane Namaste, Concordia University, Simone de Beauvoir InstituteStephen P. Dillon, University of Minnesota, American Studies Unseen and Unknown: Neo-Liberalism, the Prison Industrial Complex, and Imprisoned Queer Political LogicYumi Pak, UC San Diego, Literature Chester Himes’s Yesterday Will Make You Cry
		The Queer Past 160 Royce Moderator: Valerie Traub, University of Michigan, English and Women’s StudiesWill Fisher, Lehman College, City University of New York, English The Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs: Sexual Flagellation in Early Modern EnglandChristine Gottlieb, UCLA, English Intimacies in the Margins: Grotesque Aging and Queer Friendships in the Writings of Montaigne, Swift, and Montagu Bambi Lobdell, SUNY Oneonta, English and Women’s Studies Queer Pioneer
		Homonormativity and Nation 156 Royce Moderator: Gayatri Gopinath, NYU, Social and Cultural AnalysisJih-Fei Cheng, University of Southern California, American Studies and Ethnicity Sex, Crimes, and Punishment: A Tour of DutyR. Benedito Ferrao, Birkbeck College, University of London, English The Queer Case of the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom: Querying Queer Citizenship and Nation Liz Montegary, UC Davis, Cultural Studies The Exceptional Soldier: Homonationalism and the Fight to Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
4:45-5:45		Plenary Session 314 RoyceCheryl Dunye Seeing in the Dark: An Insight into Queer Black Experimental Cinema
5:45		Reception 306 Royce
General Information This year’s LA Queer Studies Conference is the successor to the QGrad conferences held annually at UCLA beginning in 1999. Although we no longer limit the conference to graduate students, we always encourage substantial graduate student participation, since one of the goals of the current format is to foster the exchange of ideas between graduate student and faculty scholars. The conference is free and open to the public.
Directions Royce Hall and Macgowan Hall are located on the UCLA campus. For directions to and maps of UCLA click here. Parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 4 at a cost of $9 per day. From Sunset Boulevard, enter campus by turning south onto Westwood Plaza, then proceed straight ahead to Structure 4. There is an information booth as you enter where you can purchase a parking ticket. Please let them know you are attending the LA Queer Studies Conference in Royce Hall. Since Structure 4 can get quite busy, we recommend that you leave extra time for parking
Sponsors The LA Queer Studies Conference 2008 is organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program with generous support from the David Bohnett Foundation, the Gill Foundation and the UCLA Division of Humanities, Graduate Division, Center for the Study of Women, Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, and the departments of Anthropolopgy, Art History, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film, TV, and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, Musicology, Sociology, and Women’s Studies