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From: Miranda Joseph [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 8:11 AM
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Subject: SRG Conference: Queer Imaginaries, April 16-17
The University of Arizona
Sex, Race and Globalization Project
presents:
*Queer Imaginaries*
April 16-17, 2004
Special Collections Conference Room
(conference schedule below)
Queer Imaginaries is a two-day forum which continues to address, but now
also reassess, the fundamental premises and terms structuring our
multi-year, Rockefeller-funded project. Over the last five years, the term
"globalization" has lost some of its charge. The state is a more forceful
and complex determinant of social formations than the literature on
globalization would have predicted and shifting configurations of race and
sexuality are still deeply dependent on geo-political demarcations. These
last five years have also revealed the increasing appropriation and
circulation for capital accumulation of an array of "communal" --sexed,
gendered, racialized--identity formations by transnational NGOs and
multilateral organizations such as the World Bank. Queer Imaginaries,
then, seeks not only to explore how supranational structural forces work
themselves out as differently scaled and situated social actors confront
those forces through local practices and identity formations but also to
take particular account of the nation-state's role in shaping such
practices and identities. In addressing these issues, we will foreground
explorations of how queers figure, and are figured in, representations of
the imaginary relations of subjects to these multi-scaled social forces.
By focusing on the politics of representation--in contexts ranging from
theatrical performances to the political activism of NGOs--we hope to open
up interdisciplinary methodologies, cutting across the usual divisions
between the cultural, the political and the economic.
The Sex, Race and Globalization Project is sponsored by the University of
Arizona Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies and is
made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and matching
funds from the UA Vice President for Research. We are very grateful to the
following University of Arizona centers and departments for their support
of this conference: Women's Studies Department, Udall Center for Studies
in Public Policy, Center for Latin American Studies, English Department,
Anthropology Department, Geography Department, Department of Spanish and
Portuguese.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
Friday, April 16th
9am Coffee and Pastries
9:15am Welcome and Introductions
Miranda Joseph, Director, Sex, Race and Globalization Project
9:30am-Noon On the Limits and Possibilities of Queering
Sandra Soto, moderator
Antonio Viego
"The Invert Is an Historian of the West"
Neville Hoad
"Decolonizing the Body: Race, Africa and African America in Wole Soyinka's
The Interpreters"
Darieck Scott
"A Politics of Black Bottom-ing: Samuel R. Delany's Mad Man and Lusting
for the N-Word"
Peter Chua
"Globalizing Sexualities, Sexing Global Projects: Critical Questions,
Divergent Interests"
Noon-1pm Lunch (provided)
1-3pm Performative Interventions and Queer Expressions
Javier Duran, moderator
Guillermo Nunez Noriega
"Male Intimacy in Northern Mexico: A Field to Research"
Laura G. Gutierrez
"Queer Medi(t)ations: Ximena Cuevas's Transnational Performative
Interventions"
Amy Sara Carroll
"Specters of Freud in Contemporary Mexican Lesbian Cultural Production"
3:15-4:15pm
Carmelita Tropicana
"America: Above the Fruited Plains"
Saturday, April 17th
9am Coffee and Pastries
9:30am-Noon Activism, Citizenship and Perversion
Caren Zimmerman, moderator
Marcia Ochoa
"Perverse Citizenship: Divas, Marginality and Participation in
'Loca-lization'"
Maylei Blackwell
"Mapping the Politics of Desire: Transnational Lesbian Organizing in
Mexico and the U.S."
Nishant Shahani
"Interrogating the 'Specifically Female': Towards a Performative Analysis
of Indian Feminism"
Ashley Tellis
"NGOs and the Future of Activism"
Noon-1pm Lunch (provided)
1-3pm Queer/ing Objects and Spaces
Dereka Rushbrook, moderator
Richard T. Rodriguez
"When the Bar Becomes Home: Capitalism, Kinship, and Queer Latino/a Space"
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
"On Puerto Rican Flags, Parades, Drag Queens, and T-Shirts: Inscriptions
of the Queer on the (Diasporic) Nation"
Maribel Alvarez
"A Queer Reading of Mexican Curios"
3:15-4:30pm Summary Panel
Sallie Marston, moderator
Laura Briggs, moderator
7:30pm "A Tail of Two Cities" written and performed by Carmelita Tropicana
Pima Community College Center for the Arts Recital Hall
For more information:
626-3431
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