Schedule:

Thursday, October 21st

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM: Welcoming and Opening Plenary Session - Rackham Ampitheatre

• Welcoming to participants by Professor Nadine Hubbs
• Opening roundtable "Doing Queer Studies Now... And Then"
  • Featuring: Ross Chambers, David Halperin, Esther Newton, Gayle Rubin, and Valerie Traub
  • Discussion moderated by: Genevieve Creedon (Comparative Literature, U. of Michigan) & Greg Storms (Anthropology, U. of Michigan)

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Reception - Rackham Assembly Hall

Friday, October 22nd

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Registration and Light Refreshment

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Concurrent Panel Session #1

A. Lesbian History & Politics - East Conference Room

• Chelsea Del Rio (History, U. of Michigan): “Lesbian Feminist Vanguardism: The Political Identity of Lesbian History”
• Michael Connors Jackman (Social Anthropology, York, Toronto, Canada): “The Gender of Liberation and Morality”
• Cookie Woolner (History and Women’s studies, U. of Michigan): “The Queer World of the Blues Women and the Turn Beyond Lesbian History”

Respondent: Prof. Esther Newton, Women's Studies & American Culture

B. Difficult Desire - West Conference Room

• Chase Dimock (Comparative and World Literature, U. of Illinois): “The Surreal Marriage of Marx and Freud: Rene Crevel’s Early Queering of Psychoanalysis and Marxism”
• David B. Green (American culture, U. of Michigan): “Can We Have Sex?: The Poetics of Sexual Desire in E. Lynn Harris’s Invisible Life”
• Scott Salus (Comparative Literature, U. of Massachusetts Amherst): “Occupied Intimacy: Queer Israeli Exceptionalism in Ha Buah (The Bubble - 2007)”

Respondent: Prof. Scott Spector, History, Judaic Studies, & Women's Studies

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch on Your Own

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Concurrent Panel Session #2

A. Queer Spaces - West Conference Room

• Olivier Vallerand (Cultural Mediations & Technology, McGill, Montréal, Canada): “Can A Gay Bar Be Queer? Queer Space Theory & Gay-Oriented Architecture”
• Evren Savci (Sociology, U. of Southern California): “Bigudi: An Alternative Belonging”
• Rebecka Sheffield (The Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies-U. of Toronto, Canada): “To Begin in the Archives: Positioning Queer Archives as Tactics of Pleasure”

Respondent: Prof. Magdalena Zabrowska, American Culture & The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

B. Queers and Legislation - East Conference Room

• Thibaut Raboin (French, U-C London, UK): “Can You Prove You Are A Homosexual?” - The Subjectivation of LGBT Asylum-Seekers in the UK”
• Tyler Adams (Geography, Ohio State): “Appropriating Homophobia: Fundamentalist Politics and Nation-Building in Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill”
• Logan Casey, Patrick O’Mahen & Marie Puccio (Political Science, U. of Michigan): “The Effect of Gender Proportions in State Legislatures on the Passage of Marriage Equality Provisions”

Respodent: Alysha Rooks, Law School

C. Media / Communication - Earl Lewis Room

• Andre Cavalcante (Communication Studies, U. of Michigan): “From ‘Freaks Talk Back’ to ‘Freaks Talk With…”: Recent Transgender Representation on Television Talk Shows”
• Jimmy Draper (Communication Studies, U. of Michigan): “Reading Gay/Straight Masculinities in the Men’s Magazine Industry”
• Kara E. Carmack (Art and Art History, U. of Texas-Austin): “Anton Perich Presents and TV Party:  Queering Television on Manhattan Public Access Channels, 1973-1982”

Respondent: Prof. Candance Moore, Screen Arts and Cultures

3:15 PM - 5:15 PM: Moderated Discussions (** Must register to recieve password for texts -- see here **)

A. Heather Love (English, U. of Penn.), "Close But Not Deep: Ethics and the Descriptive Turn" - East Conference Room

B. Paul Amar (Global Studies, Feminist Studies & Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara), "Cairo’s Natasha Wars and Harasser Invasions: Theorizing the Security State by Mapping the Securitization of Urban Sexualities"- West Conference Room

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM: Concurrent Panel Session #3

A. Sex and Social Structures - East Conference Room

• Prof. Adam Green (Sociology, U. of Toronto, Canada): “Sexual Social Structure and the Sexual Fields Framework”
• Trevor Hoppe (Sociology, Women's Studies, & Public Health, U. of Michigan): “Public Health, Surveillance and Criminalized Sex in the Era of HIV”
• Étienne Meunier (Sociology, Rutgers): “Barebacking and the Culture of Public Sex: Ethnography of a New York City Sex Party"

Respondent: Prof. David Caron, Romance Languages and Literatures & Women's Studies

B. Violence - West Conference Room

• Zethu Matebeni (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa): “Identity Politics in the Face of Violence and Death: When ‘Lesbian’ Disappears in the Murders of Black Lesbians in South Africa, 2006-2008”
• Prof. Joon Lee (Rhode Island School of Design): “Queer Ontology: Violent Femmes” 
• Navaneetha Mokkil Maruthur (English and Women’s studies, U. of Michigan): “Living Together, Dying Together: The Lesbian as a Political Subject”

Respondent: Prof. Nadine Hubbs, Women's Studies & Music

Saturday, October 23rd

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Registration and Light Refreshments

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Concurrent Panel Session #4

A. Security and Neoliberalism - East Conference Room

• Tal Arbel (History of Science, Harvard): “ ‘Love without Borders:’ Pride and Security in the Holy City”
• Brian Whitener (Romance Languages and Literatures, U. of Michigan): “Libidinal Economics: Rethinking Capitalism and Desire”
• Prof. Paul Amar (Global and International Studies, Sociology & Women’s Studies, UC-Santa Barbara): “The Security Archipelago: ‘Human Security’ States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism”

Respondent: Dr. Sridevi Nair, English & Women's Studies

B. Queer Genres - West Conference Room

• Steven Ruszczycky (English, University at Buffalo, SUNY): “Real Things: William Carney and the Political Pedagogy of the Leather Novel”
• Wesley Wollet (lgbt/Queer Studies & Media Studies, Gallatin School, nyu): “Mapping Desires: Bodies, Sex, Acts and Narrative in Transsexual Male Porn”
• Matthew Annis (Draper Program, nyu): “Quentin Crisp and the Queering of Gay Male Autobiography”

Respodent: Prof. Patricia Yaeger, English & Women's Studies

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch On Your Own

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Concurrent Panel Session #5

A. Queer New Media Studies - East Conference Room

• Diego Costa (Cinematic Arts, U. of Southern California): “Becoming Modular: The (Re-)Assembled Queer 'Male' Body and Its Digitally-Enabled Sexual Economy”
• Shannon Weber (Feminist Studies, UC-Santa Barbara): “The Revolution Will Be Uploaded: The Role of New Media in Contentious LGBTQ Politics After Proposition 8”
• Diepiriye Sungumote Kuky (Sociology, Delhi U., Delhi, India): “Hitching, Hunting and Hooking Online: A Delhi-Based Ethnography of the Virtually Gay Avatar, And The Production of Digital Gay Erotica”

Respondent: Greg Storms, Anthropology

B. Global Queer Identities and Communities - West Conference Room

• Howard Chiang (History of Science, Princeton): “Sinophone Production and Trans Post-Coloniality”
• Ryan M. Jones (History, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign): “Queering Mexican History: Politics, Activism, and the Mexican Homosexual Liberation Movement, 1960-1985”
• Kyohei Ikatura (Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State): “Fetishizing Whiteness: Orientalism, Japanese Gay Movement, and Sexual Liberation”

Respondent: Prof. David Halperin, English, Comparative Literature, Classical Studies, & Women's Studies

C. Queer Performances and Spectatorship - Earl Lewis Room

• Michelle Anais Morgan (American Studies, Yale): “Tableaux Vivants and “Pose Plastiques”: Temporal Drag’s Queer Accessories”
• Prof. Chad Thomas (English, U. of Alabama in Huntsville): “Queering History; or, Queer Shakespeare at the Citz’ circa 1972”
• Susan Potter (Film, Television and Media Studies, University of Auckland New Zealand/Aotearoa): “Valentino’s lesbianism”

Respondent: Dr. Clare Croft, Michigan Society of Fellows

3:15 PM - 5:15 PM: Moderated Discussions (** Must register to recieve password for texts -- see here **)

A. Joon Lee (English, Rhode Island School of Design), "The Joy of the Castrated Boy" - East Conference Room

B. Adam Green (Sociology, U. of Toronto), "Queer Theory and Sociology: Locating the Subject and Self in Sexuality Studies" - West Conference Room

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM: Concurrent Panel Session #6

A. Past, Present and Future - East Conference Room

• Dr. Matt Cook (History & Gender Studies, Birbeck College-U. of London, UK): “At Home with Shannon and Ricketts”
• Dominic Wetzel (Sociology, cuny): “Queer Histories: Queer Religions, Queer Secularisms, Queer Utopias”
• Prof. Heather Love (English, U. of Pennsylvania): “Queer + 1: Stigma and the Politics of the Outside”

Respondent: Prof. Victor Mendoza, English & Women's Studies

B. Practices of Resistance - West Conference Room

• Anand Kalra (School of Information, U. of Michigan): “Audre Lorde Was a Librarian: Healing Oppression with Information Literacy, Part 1”
• Laurica Brown (Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara): “Incite to Rhyme: Lesbian Hip Hop Artists in the San Francisco/Bay Area”
• Mair W. Culbreth (Dance Studies, Ohio State): “Queering Tango:  Re-Imagining Desire, Power and Artistic Innovation in Dance”

Respondent: Prof. Lori Brooks, American Culture & The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

8:00 PM - Late: Party at AUT Bar with DJ Gayle Rubin, Spinning from the Archives of Danceology