UCLA QUEER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2010
UCLA QUEER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2010
Friday and Saturday, October 8-9, 2010 Royce Hall
University of California – Los Angeles
October 8th and 9th
Royce Hall, UCLA
with plenary speakers Kara Keeling
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Gayle Salamon
Susan Stryker
and free performance by VAGINAL DAVIS
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/
lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu
Our present and future programming depends on generous donations from foundations, departments, and individuals. Please make any donations payable to “U. C. Regents.”
FRIDAY, October 8th
1:00 – 2:20 Royce 314
Trans-lating the Middle East
Moderator:
Gil Hochberg, Comparative Literature and Vice Chair of LGBT Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“On the (Im)Possibility of Queer Translatabilities and the Formation of Gender Identities in Post-Civil-War Beirut, Lebanon”
Sofian Merabet, Anthropology, University of Texas – Austin
“Bigudi: An Alternative Belonging”
Evren Savci, Sociology, University of Southern California
“Returning to the Fathers’ Land: Yotam Reuveny’s Queer Nationalism”
Oren Segal, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
1:00 – 2:20
Royce 150
Queers On(the)Line: //Surfing Digital Trans/mission
Moderator:
James Schultz, Germanic Languages, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Becoming Modular: The (Re-)Assembled Queer ‘Male’ Body and Its Digitally-Enabled Sexual Economy”
Diego Costa, Cinematic Arts – iMap, University of Southern California
“Transition online: Booking Surgeries in Thailand on World Wide Web Tourist Sites”
Jillana Enteen, Gender Studies, Northwestern University
“’Recruitment is Our Prime Directive’: Virality, Race, and Homonationalism in Gay Erotic Fiction”
Mica Hilson, English, Indiana University – Bloomington
“Time in the Embodied Search for Online Pornography”
Patrick Keilty, Information Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
1:00 – 2:20
Royce 306
Embodying Lesbian Possibilities
Moderator:
Jennifer Reed, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, California State University – Long Beach
Speakers:
“The Lesbian in Transit and the Fairytale of Progress: Circuits of Capital and Desire Between Spain and Latin America in Cenicienta en Chueca”
Jodi A. Eisenberg, Literature, University of California – San Diego
“Disrupting the Discipline of Femininity in Western Modern Dance: The Role of a Lesbian/Queer identity in Artistic Innovation and Embodied Knowledge”
Mair W. Culbreth, Dance Studies, Ohio State University
“’There is No Word to Describe What We Feel For Each Other’: Paving the Way for Lesbian Possibility and Representation in South Asian Diasporic Cinema”
Erin Tobin, Cinema Studies, New York University
2:30 – 3:45
Royce 314
The Williams Institute – Recent scholarship focused on policies affecting the Transgender Community
williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu
Moderator:
Gary Gates, Williams Distinguished Scholar, Williams Institute
Speakers:
“Law Enforcement Interactions within the Latino/a Transgender Community in Los Angeles”
Lori Mizuno, Director of Research & Evaluation, Bienestar and
Alejandrina Juardo, Evaluation Specialist, Bienestar
“Gender Regulation in the Built Environment: Gender-Segregated Public Facilities and the Movement for Change in Washington, D.C.”
Jody Herman, Public Policy Fellow, Williams Institute
“National Survey of Discrimination Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People”
Somjen Frazer, Director of Research and Evaluation, SAGE
4:00 – 5:15
Royce 314
Plenary Panel
Moderator:
Uri McMillan, English/African-American Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
Susan Stryker, Gender Studies, Indiana University – Bloomington
Kara Keeling, Critical Studies, University of Southern California
5:45 – 7:00 LGBT Resource Center
Reception
SATURDAY October 9th
8:30 – 9:00 Royce 314
Light Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 Royce 306
Tough, Mad, and Sexy: Crossing Native American Space
Moderator:
Christopher Looby, English, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“A Topography of Indigenous Queer Desire: ‘The Toughest Indian in the World’ Confronts the Great Gay Migration”
Chris Belcher, English, University of Southern California
“Transnational as Trickster: Joy Harjo’s ‘In Mad Love and War’”
Anthony Moses Sanchez, English, University of California – Los Angeles
“Alive on the Page and Resistant: Native Queer Politics and the Sovereign Erotic in Qwo-Li Driskill’s Walking with Ghosts”
Erin Erhart, English Literature, Brandeis University
9:00 – 10:15 Royce 314
Scarred: Readings in Queer Shame
Moderator:
Steven Nelson, Art History, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Marked: Whip Scars and Photography”
Jordy Jones, Independent Scholar
“Phantasmagoria: The Queer Art of Temporality in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.” Casey Henry, English, City University of New York
“Femme Identity, ‘Lowbrow Art,’ and Queer Punk: Theorizing Shame in
Michelle Tea’s Rent Girl”
Patricia Nelson, English, University of Southern California
9:00 – 10:15 Royce 164
Queer Studies and Disability Studies
Moderator:
Helen Deutsch, English, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“They Look Like Us: The (In)Visibility of Sexual Deviance”
Cyd Cipolla, Women’s Studies, Emory University
“Disabled Eros?: Ambivalence, Anxiety and the Politics of Representation”
Megan Friddle, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
“Asexuality and Disability: Beyond a Relationship of Mutual Negation”
Kristina Gupta, Women’s Studies, Emory University
10:30 – 11:45 Royce 314
Performing Blackness: From the Plantation to the Streets
Moderator:
Mignon Moore, Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Queer Curatorship: Displaying the History of Race, Sex, and Power”
Jennifer Tyburczy, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University
“Queer Feelings, Aesthetic Embodiments: Towards a Reconsideration of Adrian Piper’s
‘The Mythic Being’”
Uri McMillan, English/African-American Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
“Kinless or Queer: The Non/Existence of the Queer Slave in African American Literature”
Rebecca Balon, English, University of California at Irvine
10:30 – 11:45 Royce 156
Beyond Conceptual Moves: Queer Approaches to Embodied Change
Moderator:
Susan Stryker, Gender Studies, Indiana University – Bloomington
Speakers:
“Movement Out of Context”
Julian B. Carter, Critical Studies, California College of the Arts
“Transgender Movement(s) and Beating the Straight Flush: DS+R’s Art of Trans-Washrooms”
Lucas Crawford, English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
“Transference Moves Me”
Marcia Klotz, English and Women’s Studies, Portland State University
“The Warm-Up”
Kelly Rafferty, Performance Studies, Arizona State University
10:30 – 11:45 Royce 162
Let’s Get Serious: Talking Back to Queer Theory
Moderator:
Nizan Shaked, Art, Art History Area, California State University – Long Beach
Speakers:
“When ‘The Economy’ is Sick: Queer Feminist Possibilities in Economic Bodies”
Evangeline M. Heiliger, Women’s Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
“We are Born In Flames: Queer Critiques of States and Revolutions”
Craig Willse, Center for Ideas & Society, University of California – Riverside
10:30 – 11:45
Royce 164
The Queer Senses
Moderator:
Joseph Bristow, English, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Muscles and Mascara: Spectacular Unreadability in Rechy’s Outlaw Aesthetics”
Alison Reed, English, University of California – Santa Barbara
“Quear: the Queerness of the Hearing”
Roshanak Kheshti, Ethnic Studies, University of California – San Diego
“Feeling Plastic: Soviet Pantomime and Queer-Deaf Phenomenology”
Anastasia Kayiatos, Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of California – Berkeley
11:45 – 1:00 Royce 306
LUNCH
1:15 – 2:30 Royce 314
Plenary Panel
Moderator:
Paul Amar, Global and International Studies, University of California – Santa Barbara
Speakers:
Afsaneh Najmabadi, History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard
Gayle Salamon, English, Princeton
2:45 – 4:00 Royce 164
Trans–Speak: Weapons, Passions, Modernity
Moderator:
Sue-Ellen Case, UCLA Theater, Director of Center for Performance Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Bodily Apocalypse: Trans Embodiment in Angela Carter’s The Passion of the New Eve”
Margaret Galvan, English, City University of New York, Graduate Center
“An Uneasy LGBT? Cooperation Between Male-Bodied Trans People and Homosexual Women in Weimar Germany”
Nancy Twilley, Germanic languages and Literatures, Washington University – St. Louis
“Queer Weapons: Revising Patriotism and the American Body in Frank Pierson’s Soldier’s Girl”
Jessica Lee Mathiason, Comparative Studies in Discourse & Society, University of Minnesota
2:45 – 4:00 Royce 314
Homos on the Ranch: Bears, Soldiers and the American Nation
Moderator:
Blake Allmendinger, English, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Bearing the Nation: Regular Guys, Homo(inter)nationalism, and Queerness”
Joseph Coyle, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
“Militarizing Queer Bodies: Heteronationalism and Homonationalism in ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’”
Jennifer Kosakowski, Culture and Theory, University of California – Irvine
2:45 – 4:00 Royce 306
Queer Utopianism, Multiculturalism, and the Im/possibility of Politicization in Neoliberal Canada
Moderator:
Rhonda Hammer, Women’s Studies, University of California – Los Angeles
Speakers:
“Un/settling Questions about Research and Advocacy with Queer Refugees”
Sharalyn Jordan, Counseling Psychology, University of British Columbia
“Migrant Intimacies: Networked Media, Mobilities and the Practice of Un/belonging for the Diasporic Queer Lives in Canada”
Dai Kojima, Human Development, Learning and Culture, University of British Columbia
“Made in Canada: Youth Film Production and ‘Post-Queer’ Articulations of Sameness”
Lori MacIntosh, Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, lbm@interchange.ubc.ca
4:15 – 5:45 Royce 306
Reception
6:00 – 8:00 Royce 314 or Rolfe 1200 depending on demand
Performative Lecture by VAGINAL DAVIS
Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo–Black Screen Images, and the Notion of Freakiness
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Center for Near Eastern Studies
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Diversity Research Institute
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
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