DEBILITATING QUEERNESS
The Sixth Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium
A One-Day Conference at the University of Maryland
April 5, 2013, College Park, MD
Free and open to the public
The symposium will be a daylong series of conversations in critical queer, gender, and disability studies focused on the recent turn toward questions of bodily capacity, debility, disability, precarity, and populations. Events will include three concurrent paper sessions, followed by an afternoon plenary featuring Karen Nakamura (Associate Professor of Anthropology & East Asian Studies, Yale University), Margaret Price (Associate Professor of English, Spelman College), and Abby Wilkerson (Associate Professor of Writing, The George Washington University). The day will culminate with a keynote address by Jasbir Puar, associate professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University. Puar is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times and of articles in Gender, Place, and Culture; Social Text; Radical History Review; Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She has edited or co-edited special issues of GLQ, Social Text, and Society and Space.
DC Queer Studies is a group of faculty from schools in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area formed in 2006 to discuss new works in the field and to exchange, support, and cultivate new ways of engaging with LGBT/Queer/Sexuality Studies across the disciplines and across institutions.
Please join us for what promises to be a lively spring festival of scholarly exchange in an interdiscipline that continues to challenge and transform the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences, and the world in which we live.
To request disability accommodation, please contact our office at 301.405.5428 (voice); 301.314.2529 (fax), or via email at lgbts@umd.edu. We will make every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible.
REGISTER FOR THE SYMPOSIUM
Registration is FREE and OPEN to the public.
To register, please complete the online registration form.
Or, you may also send an email to lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu with the following information: your name, department/title (if any), institutional/organizational affiliation (if any), and email address. Also, please let us know if you will be joining us for the buffet lunch and/or the closing reception.
We ask that attendees preregister by March 22 so that we can plan food accordingly. However, on-site registrations will also be accepted.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Full details about the program schedule are now available. You may also download an abbreviated, printable schedule.
EVENT COORDINATION
Marilee Lindemann and JV Sapinoso, with the assistance of Casey Hall, LGBT Studies Program, University of Maryland. Special thanks to Robert McRuer for advice and assistance.
SYMPOSIUM PLANNING COMMITTEE
Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland; Marilee Lindemann, University of Maryland; Robert McRuer, The George Washington University; JV Sapinoso, University of Maryland; Craig Willse, George Mason University
SPONSORS
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, Department of English, Graduate School, LGBT Equity Center, LGBT Studies Program, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and Office of Undergraduate Studies.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Department of Literature, College of Arts and Sciences
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Cultural Studies Program
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Department of English
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Department of English; University Writing Program
LGBT Studies • 2417 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD 20742Phone: 301.405.5428 • Fax: 301.314.2529 • Office of Undergraduate Studies