Friday, April 18, 2008
Crist Boardroom, Samuel Riggs Alumni Center, University of Maryland
(Seating for Friday events is limited, so pre-registration is required. Contact lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu for information.)

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration & Light Breakfast

9:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Faculty Paper Session
Kevin HAYNES, University of North Carolina School of Law
• Barack Obama’s Queer Appeal

Dana LUCIANO, Georgetown University
• Rejoicing in the Time to Come: Spiritualism’s Spectral Erotics

Siobhan B. SOMERVILLE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Stuck in History: Howard Cruse’s Civil Rights Imaginary

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Faculty Paper Session
Michael COVENTRY, Georgetown University
• Show and Tell: Using Media to Facilitate Students’ First Engagement with Queer Theory

Laura MAMO, University of Maryland
• Does Lesbian Reproduction Queer Reproduction?

Robert McRUER, George Washington University
• “Some Women Like To Be on Top”: National Fantasies and Queer Anti-National Sexual Positions

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Buffet Lunch

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Roundtable on Keywords in Sexuality Studies
With Holly DUGAN, George Washington University; Christina HANHARDT, University of Maryland; Katie KING, University of Maryland; Salvador VIDAL-ORTIZ, American University

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Roundtable on Keywords in Sexuality Studies
With Mandy BERRY, American University; Jeffrey McCUNE, University of Maryland; Ricardo ORTIZ, Georgetown University; Samantha PINTO, Georgetown University

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Wrap Up Discussion
With Roderick A. FERGUSON, University of Minnesota, and Marilee LINDEMANN, University of Maryland

5:00 PM – 6:30PM
Reception