Speaker Series Spring 2008
Queer
Living
Sixth Annual Lecture Series in LGBT Studies
University of Maryland
The taking of tea, the making (or not making or re-making)
of vows, the telling of stories – Queer and LGBT lives
are shaped and punctuated by moments of performance, ritual, and ceremony.
Such moments help to form identities, build communities, and fuel
social and political activism, but queer practices of intimacy and
sociality vary widely from place to place and signify differently
in different contexts. They also suggest divergent models of relationship
between sexual minorities and the heterosexual, heteronormative majority.
In this engaging series of events, four leaders in the field of LGBT/queer
studies examine “queer living” through the lenses of legal
and social history, ethnographic performance, and sociology. Please
join us, and get in on what promises to be a lively conversation.
All events are free and open to the public. Q&A and reception
to follow each lecture.
We are grateful to the Office of Undergraduate Studies for its support
of the series. Additional sponsors include the departments of English
and Theatre and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies is a unit
in the Office of Undergraduate Studies.
George Chauncey
From Sodomy Laws to Marriage Amendments: A History of Sexual Identity/Politics
4 p.m., Thursday, February 21
Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center
George Chauncey is professor of history at Yale University. He
is the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the
Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic, 1994), which
won numerous awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize
for the best first book in history. He recently published Why
Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate over Gay Equality
(Basic, 2004), and has co-edited three books and special journal
issues and published numerous articles on the history of gender
and sexuality.
This event is part of the Provost’s Conversations on Diversity,
Democracy, and Higher Education series.
Lisa Duggan
The End of Marriage: The War Over the Future of State Sponsored Love
4 p.m., Thursday, March 13
Susquehanna 1120
Lisa Duggan is professor of social and cultural analysis and director
of the American Studies program at New York University. She is the
author of The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural
Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (Beacon Press, 2003)
and Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity (Duke
University Press, 2000). She is co-editor, with Lauren Berlant,
of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest
(New York University Press, 2001) and co-author, with Nan D. Hunter,
of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (Columbia
University Press, 2001).
E. Patrick Johnson
Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales
7 p.m., Wednesday, April 2
Kogod Theatre, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
E. Patrick Johnson is chair, director of graduate studies, and
professor of Performance Studies and of African American Studies
at Northwestern University. He is the author of Appropriating
Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Duke
University Press, 2003). He is co-editor, with Mae G. Henderson,
of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Duke University
Press). His book, Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men
of the South, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina
Press. In addition to his published work, Johnson is also a performing
artist. Pouring Tea is a staged reading based on the oral
histories of black gay men of the South collected in his book.
Roderick A. Ferguson
To Be Fluent in Each Other's Narratives: Surplus Populations and Queer
of Color Activism
4:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17
Atrium, Adele Stamp Student Union
Roderick A. Ferguson is associate professor of race and critical
theory in the department of American Studies at the University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Aberrations in Black:
Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota,
2004). Currently, he is working on a book project titled The
Re-Order of Things: Birth of the Interdisciplines.
This event is part of the DC Queer Studies Symposium being held
at the University of Maryland April 17-18, 2008. The University
of Maryland is host and lead sponsor of the symposium. Co-sponsoring
institutions are American University, Georgetown University, and
the George Washington University.
The DC Queer Studies Symposium
A Two-Day Conference at the University of Maryland
April 17-18, 2008, College Park, MD
Free and open to the public
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Registration and Welcome (Atrium)
quickanddirty IV: A Graduate Queer Studies Symposium
Presentations by graduate students from American University, Georgetown
University, George Washington University, and University of Maryland
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Concurrent Graduate Symposium Sessions
Regulation, Surveillance, and Queer Challenges to the State
(Nanticoke Room)
Amy L. WASHBURN, University of Maryland, Women’s
Studies
• “Power, Where Art Thou?: Queering Liberalism &
Radicalizing Post/Modern Struggles for Revolution in the United
States”
Ned MITCHELL, George Washington University,
Queer Studies/Sexuality
• “Mysterious Skin and ‘Vigilance’”
Jed R. BRUBAKER, Georgetown University, Communication,
Culture and Technology
• “I judged you at Starbucks – m4m (craigslist
missed connections): digital communication and the regulation
of real world contexts”
Queerly Unstable: Alternate Histories and Competing National
Narratives (Pyon Su Room)
Melissa YINGER, American University, Literature
• “Queering Concepts of Singularity: Metaphor and
Identity in 1 Henry IV”
Damion CLARK, University of Maryland, English
• “The Last of England?: Miscegenation, Queer Flesh,
and Competing Cinematic Narratives of National History and the
Future of Britain”
Ramzi FAWAZ George Washington University, American
Studies
• “Flame On!: James Sturm’s Unstable Molecules
and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four”
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Concurrent Graduate Symposium Sessions
A Shock to the System: Queer Engagements in Dueling Cultures
(Nanticoke Room)
Jason HIPP, George Washington University, English/
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• “Shock to the Body: Queering Affect and Gary Fisher”
Rigo MARQUEZ, University of Maryland, Education,
Policy and Leadership
• “Queer like Me! A Revolution of Another Color: Queer
Students of Color Creating Dialogues of Difference”
Benjamin REDFIELD, Georgetown University. Communication,
Culture and Technology
• “Guerrilla Confrontation: The ‘Smart Mob’
as a Social Experiment”
Queer Identities and the Politics of Erasure (Pyon Su
room)
Perry D. GUEVARA, Georgetown University, English
• “Desdemona’s Dildo: Female Queerness and Fetish
in Othello”
JV SAPINOSO, University of Maryland, Women’s
Studies
• “‘Lost in an immersion of vanilla…frozen
by an avalanche of snow’: One Queer of Color’s Lineage,
Strategy, and Dreams for Queer Scholarship in the U.S.”
Justin MAHER, University of Maryland, American
Studies
• “The Way Who Lives?: Cultivation of Exclusionary
Multiculturalism in The L Word’s Los Angeles”
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Break (coffee or snacks on own in Union)
4:30 –7:00 PM
Keynote Address & Reception (Atrium)
Roderick A. FERGUSON, University of Minnesota
• To Be Fluent in Each Other's Narratives: Surplus Populations
and Queer of Color Activism
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
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.
Sponsored by: University of Maryland (Department of English, LGBT
Studies Program, Office of Undergraduate Studies); American University
(College of Arts and Sciences); Georgetown University (Department
of English); the George Washington University (Columbian College of
Arts and Sciences)
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