QGrad 1999

Published: April 25, 2016

QGRAD 1999

A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON SEXUALITY AND GENDER

FRIDAY OCTOBER 22, 1999 8:45 am – 6:00 pm
306 ROYCE HALL UCLA

Cosponsored by UCLA Center for the Study of Women UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center

8:45-9:00 – WELCOME

9:00-10:30 – SESSION ONE

PARENTS
314 Royce

  • Kevin F. McNeill, UC Riverside, Sociology
    Teresa Chivabunditt, UC Riverside, Sociology
    Johannah Tan, UC Riverside, Sociology
    “Parenting and Sexual Orientation: Results of a Meta-Analysis”
  • Daniel Rivers, Stanford, History
    “Towards a Materialist Queer Theory: An Historical Analysis of the Courtroom Struggles of Gay/Lesbian Parents from 1954-1976”
  • Samuel Park, USC, English
    “Gay Parenting and Queer Families: Toward a New Definition of Queer in Gay Film”

SEX AND GENDER TROUBLE
334c Royce

  • Elizabeth M. Malamed, USC, Education
    “Gender Identity Disorders: Changing Current Treatment Approaches”
  • Mark A. Masterson, USC, Classics
    “Approaching Antony or Athanasius’s ‘Virtual’ Man”
  • T.J. Michels, UCLA
    “(Dis)Entangling Sex and Gender: A Feminist Transgender Discourse”

POWER / POLICY / WORK
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  • Janet Maia Wojcicki, UCLA, Anthropology
    “The Politics and Violence of Sex Work in South Africa: Race, Class, and HIV/AIDS”
  • Stephen Kirk, University of Chicago, Political Science
    “Obstacles to Minority Group Influence in the Policymaking Process: A Study of Gay and Lesbian Interests and Power”
  • Phillip N. Fucella, UC Berkeley, Sociology
    “Good Sense, Common Sense, and Fashion Sense: The Political Economy of Fabulousness”

IDENTITY / COMMUNITY
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  • Jeffrey J. Santa Ana, UC Berkeley, English
    “Queer Hybrids and Hapas: Multiraciality and Diaspora in Asian American Queer Writings”
  • Shih Kuao Chang, UC Berkeley, English
    “Queering the Ethnic, Ethnicizing the Queer: The Challenge of Bridging ‘Mainstream’ Gay and Asian Communities”
  • Maria Darcy, Arizona State Univ., Education
    Charles Harless, UCLA, Computer Science
    Rachel Harris, Arizona State Univ., Education
    Adrienne Judie, Arizona State Univ., Architecture
    Ofelia Madrid
    “Where is the Color in the Rainbow? Decentering Whiteness in the Lesbian and Gay Community”

10:45-12:45 SESSION TWO

INTERACTORS
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  • Nicholas de Villiers, Univ. of Minnesota, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
    “‘The Vanguard – and Most Articulate Audience’: Queer Camp, Jack Smith, John Waters”
  • James Tobias, USC, Critical Studies, Cinema and TV
    “Queering Multimedia: Apparatus as Instrument”
  • David Pendleton, UCLA, Critical Studies, Film & TV
    “Toward a New Queer Cinema”
  • Sylvia Chong, UC Berkeley, Rhetoric
    “Writing Bad Sex: Rape Fantasies and Female Masochism in X-Files Fan Fiction”

ACROSS IDENTITIES 
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  • Erika Wright, CSU, Northridge, Literature
    “The Queering of Brest: Sexuality and Gender Disruption in Jean Genet’s Querelle”
  • Erik Leidal, UCLA, Musicology
    “Aretha Franklin¹s ŒMary, Don¹t You Weep¹: Signifying the Survivor in Gospel Music”
  • Keya Koul, UCLA, Spanish and Portuguese
    “Female to Male Crossdressing and the Creation of a Female Homoerotic Desire in Jorge de Montemayor’s La Diana”
  • Joy Sapinoso, San Diego State, Women’s Studies
    “Making Space for Sexually Deviant Lesbians as Lesbians: Expanding the Standards of Lesbian Sex Propriety Using Dorothy Allison’s ‘Her Body, Mine, and His'”

PERFORMANCE 
314 Royce

  • Dan Froot, UCLA, Dance
    “Johnny Whoops”
    Post-performance discussion lead by David Gere

VIENNA / PARIS 
306 Royce

  • Christine E. Coffman, USC, Comparative Literature
    “‘Prophetess Faced Prophetess:’ Rewritings of Psychoanalytic Theories of Madness in H.D.’s HERmione”
  • David M. Chase, UCLA, English
    “At Home? Opening a Space for (Un)Becoming Bisexual(ity) in H.D.’s Nights”
  • Liberty Smith, UCSD, Literature, Cultural Studies
    “‘The Atmosphere of the Unasked Question:’ Considering the Queer Products of Prejudice in Otto Weininger’s Sex and Character”
  • Eric Weitzel, UCSB, English
    “War, Home, Media: Gertrude Stein’s Integrated Response to Global Conflict”

COMMUNITY HISTORY 
334c Royce

  • Charles E. Clifton, University of Chicago, History
    “Don’t Drag Me Down: Exploring Boundaries of Race and Sexuality in Bronzeville and Chicago, 1935-60”
  • John Master, UC Riverside, History
    “Against the Current: Homophiles and Respectability in the McCarthy Period”
  • Eric C. Wat, CalState Fullerton, American Studies
    “Generation Zero: A History of Organizing Among Gay Asian Men in Los Angeles in the Pre-AIDS Years”
  • Daniel Hurewitz, UCLA, History
    “Getting Identity: Mattachine and the Politics of Identity Construction”

12:45-2:15 LUNCH

2:15-4:15 SESSION THREE

MASCULINITY
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  • Eric Oifer, USC, Political Science
    “Gay Male Social Theory: Challenge to and Reification of Heterosexual Masculinity”
  • Claudia Cataldo, UCLA, Germanic Languages
    Patrick Wen, UCLA, Scandinavian Languages
    “Hamsun’s Dwarf Show: Towards a New Freakery Discourse”
  • Jane Ward, UCSB, Sociology
    “Queer Sexism: Rethinking Gay Men and Masculinity”
  • Carmen Mitchell, UCLA, Afro-American Studies
    “Coincidental Beats and Rhythms of Divergence: A Dialectical Ethnomusicology of Black Masculinities in Rap and House Music”

HOMO / HETERO / HISTORY
334c Royce

  • David A. Anderson, UCLA, English
    “Love and Resistance: Whitman and Discourses of Sexuality in Early 19th-Century America”
  • Alan W. Sikes, Univ. of Minnesota, Theater
    “Criminal Queers and Homocidal Homosexuals: Oscar Wilde and the Cunanan Connection”
  • Yvonne Ivory, UCLA, Germanic Languages
    “Princely Posing: The Production of Heterosexuality in Thomas Mann¹s Royal Highness”
  • Clarissa Clò, UCSD, Literature
    “Is There a ‘History of Sexuality’ in Italy? Deviance and Heteronormativity in Bernardo Bertolucci¹s Film Novecento (1900)”

ACROSS BORDERS 
355 Kinsey

  • Mirana M. Szeto, UCLA, Comparative Literature
    “Feminists Queering Queerness: Traversal Politics and Translation”
  • Timothy Wright, UCLA, Latin American Studies
    “The Globalization of Sexual Identity: The Case of Male Homosexuality in Bolivia”
  • V. Patricia Truchly, UCLA, Ethnomusicology
    “Bi-Sexuality and Bi-Musicality: Issues of Power and Authenticity in Ethnomusicological Inquiry”
  • Tom Boellstorff, Stanford, Anthropology
    “The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia”

FILM 
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  • Moderator: Derek Livingston, UCLA, Film
    Jonathan Wald, UCLA, Film
    “…………..”
  • Carl Pfirman, UCLA, Film
    “Boy Next Door”
  • Jen Arnold, UCLA, Film
    “Maid of Honor”

4:30-6:00 SESSION FOUR

FACULTY SCHOLARS PANEL 
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QY2K: WHAT ARE THE RESEARCH ISSUES? 
Moderator: Lynn Hunt, UCLA, History
Susan Cochran, UCLA, Epidemiology
Peter Nardi, Pitzer/Claremont, Sociology
David Román, USC, English
William Rubenstein, UCLA, Law
Robyn Wiegman, UC Irvine, Women¹s Studies and English

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The conference is open to the public free of charge. We do, however, ask that you sign in when you arrive at 306 Royce.

PARKING INFORMATION
Parking is available for conference participants in Parking Structure 4 at a cost of $5 per day.

From Sunset Boulevard, enter the campus at Westwood Ave.

A campus map can be found on line at: http://www.ucla.edu/map

For further information, please contact the LGBTS office at (310) 206-0516 or lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu” >lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu