Friday May 19th 2023
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8:15am - 9:00 am
Check-in / Breakfast
Location: Royce 306
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9:00 am - 9:20am
Opening Remarks
Location: Royce 314
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9:30am - 11:00am
Panel Session 1
Panel 1a:What’s Queer about Culture?(Royce 306)
Respondent: Patty Gone, Doctoral candidate, Performance Studies, UCLAPallavi Rudraraju, “Dragging the Classics: A Vivacious Read of Classical Indian Dance”
Megan Wicks, “Queering the Narrative: What Fan Activity Can Tell Us About Truth in Fiction”
Brendan Drake, “Heartbreak Feels Good in a Place Like This: Tracking Queer Sociality in Contemporary Dance and Performance.”
Panel 1b: Aesthetics, Politics, Solidarity (Royce 314)
Respondent: Sa’ed Atshan, Associate Professor, Emory UniversityAJ Kurdi, “Contested colonialiti(es): the transnational production of a Lebanese queer political space.”
Diaa Alsersawi, “The Fi’dai and the Queer: Palestine and the Aesthetics of Queer Worldmaking”
Aiza Khan, “Khwajasira Alternatives: Queer Subjectivity, Kinship, and Solidarity under Precarity”
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11:10am - 12:40pm
Panel Session 2
Panel 2a: Trusting Spaces (Royce 306)
Respondent: Tamika Butler, Doctoral candidate, Urban Planning, UCLARavindu Ranawakam “Nocturnal Afterlives: South Asian Trans Rebirth and Temporality in Queer Nightscapes”
Cass Wood, “Queering Urban Architecture: Preserving Cisheterosexism Through the Hostile Built Environment “
Balakrishnan Raghavan, “Cruising the Performative: Staging Utopia Through ‘At Odds With Even Love’”
Panel 2b: Scrambling the Archive (Royce 314)
Respondent: Josephine Ong, Doctoral candidate, Gender Studies, UCLAYas namazie, “Between Spectacular and Invisible: Charting abolitionist futurities of trans of color information work”
TengChao Zhou, “Archiving Gay Chinese Literature as Generative Art on the Blockchain”
Gunindu Sithunada Abeysekera, “Returning the Ga(y)ze: A Recreation and Reflection of Lionel Wendt’s Queer Sri Lankan Photographs”
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12:40pm -1:30pm
Lunch
Location: Royce 306
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1:30pm - 2:00pm
Performance: Balakrishnan Raghavan, At Odds With Even Love
Location: Royce 314
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2:00pm - 3:30pm
Panel Session 3
Panel 3a: Suturing Borders (Royce 306)
Respondent: Lynette Dixon, Doctoral candidate, Gender Studies, UCLALalu Esra Özban, “Screening in Solidarity: Pink Armenia & Pink Life QueerFest Beyond Borders and Censorship”
Michael Harrington, “Wish Death ‘Pon Me: The Gangster’s Queer Signification”
Dominic Bocci, untitled paper
Panel 3b: Queer(y)ing Care (Royce 314)
Respondent: Lauren Baczewski, Doctoral candidate, Human Development & Psychology, UCLAAngelina Cayabyab, “Fighting for Queer Liberation: Reproductive Justice and Neoliberal Market Incentives in a Post-Roe Environment.”
Dena Gohari, “‘They Thought It Was an Obsession’: Trajectories and Perspectives of Autistic Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescents”
Shivani Dave, “QTPOC Relationality as Praxis for Politicized Trust”
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3:30pm - 4:00pm
Coffee Break
Location: Royce 306
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4:00pm - 5:30pm
Keynote Presentation, Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, Emory University
Location: Royce 314
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5:45pm - 8:00pm
Reception, Closing Remarks, and performance by Brendan Drake
Location: Fowler Museum Courtyard