| UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2012
QUEER OF COLOR GENEALOGIES Friday, October 19, 2012 CONFERENCE PROGRAM |
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| 9:30-10:45 | Addressing the Community Needs of LGBT Youth of Color Organized by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law Moderator: Bianca D. M. Wilson, Senior Scholar of Public Policy, The Williams InstituteLaura E. Durso, Public Policy Fellow, The Williams Institute Project Access: Addressing the Community Needs of Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Male Youth of Color in Los AngelesAngeliki Kastanis, Public Policy Fellow, The Williams Institute The RISE Initiative: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Children & Youth In Foster CareLisa Powell, Attorney at Law and Co-Founder, Black Lesbians United (BLU) LGBT Youth Mental Health Project |
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| 10:45-11:45 | Keynote Address
Sandra K. Soto, University of Arizona |
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| 11:45-1:00 | Queer Indigeneities Unsettling Settler Colonialism Moderator: Mishuana Goeman, UCLAJodi A. Byrd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign We Are All Native Here: Colonial Critique and Its Queer ErrantQwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University Asegi Archive: Cherokee Gender, Sexuality, and Memory Dan Taulapappa McMullin, Claremont Graduate University |
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| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-3:35 | The Other Archive of Desire: Remapping LGBT Histories Moderator: Maylei Blackwell, UCLAKai M. Green, University of Southern California Towards a Black Queer Geography: The Struggle Over the Uses of Erotic in a Time of CrisisAlexis Pauline Gumbs, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Breathe: A Colored Ritual for Queer LAHoracio N. Roque Ramírez, University of California, Santa Barbara Racializing Risk, Sexualizing AIDS: (Gay) Latino San Francisco, 1980s Alice Y. Hom, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy |
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| 3:40-5:15 | Transnational Aesthetics/Erotics Moderator: Uri McMillan, UCLAVanessa Agard-Jones, New York University A Serial Killer in the FamilyChitra Ganesh, Visual Artist Her Head in the Flames?Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Theorizing Translocas and Translatinas: Trans Queer Feminist Thought Roy Pérez, Willamette University |
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| 5:15-6:15 | Keynote AddressJafari Sinclaire Allen, Yale University All the Things We Are Now: A Meditation on Black Queer Genealogies |
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| 6:15 | Reception 306 Royce |
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General InformationThe conference is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.Directions Royce Hall is located on the UCLA campus. Parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 4 at a cost of $11 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 UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2012 has been organized by Maylei Blackwell and Uri McMillan for the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program with generous support from the David Bohnett Foundation the UCLA Division of Humanities, Division of Social Sciences, Graduate Division, Office of Faculty Diversity and Development, Institute for Society and Genetics, Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy the Bunche Center for African American Studies, Asian American Studies Center, Chicano Studies Research Center, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for the Study of Women the Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies, and the UCLA departments of Anthropolopgy, Art History, Asian American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, Chicana/o Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film Television and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Gender Studies, Germanic Languages, History, Information Studies, Musicology, Psychology, Sociology, and Theater |
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