Conference Program

Schedule of Events

Thursday, May 5

Levis Faculty Center, Music Room (2^nd Floor)

919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana

7:30pm Keynote Address

"Rethinking ‘Illegal’ Immigration Through Queer Theories"

Eithne Luibhéid
Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Arizona

A reception will follow the talk
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Friday, May 6
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 W. Nevada Street, Urbana

9-10:45 am Disrupting Queer Narratives of Community
Queer Diaspora and Agency: Spoken Word Art Performance As Activism Through Yosimar Reyes's "For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly"

Luis Morales Villalba, University of Utah

The Way We Weren’t: Historicism, Progress and the Production of a White Urban Gay Identity in Washington, D.C.

Kwame Holmes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Discourse of Chinese Traditional Culture as the Major Obstacle to Sexual Equality in (Post)colonial Chinese Diaspora

Wat, Chi Cheng, Texas A&M University

CHAIR/RESPONDENT: Dara Goldman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

11am-12:45 pm Unsettling Queer Regions
Creating the Mexican Afeminado: Exile, (Homo)sexual Identity, and the Islas Marías Penal Colony, 1929-1940
Ryan Jones, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Not Fit for Consumption: Rural Queer Escapism as Majority Narrative
Sarah E. Brookshier, Georgetown University

(Un)knowing and (Re)reading Chican@ in La Mission
Ricky Gutierrez-Maldonado, University of Utah

CHAIR/RESPONDENT: Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2-3:45 pm Queering Imperial Encounters
Queering the Colonial Encounter: Satire in Dario Fo's Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
Michelle Salerno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dougla and the Epistemology of Race in Postcolonial Caribbean Nationhood
Jean Y. Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Queering Natal: Settler Logics and the Destabilizing Specter of Zulu Polygamy
T.J. Tallie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

CHAIR/RESPONDENT: Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

4-5:45 pm Sexually Dangerous Citizens
Impossible Subjects: Safe Frames in Queered International Spaces
Melinda Q. Brennan, University of Indiana, Bloomington

Transsexual Patriot, Gender-Deviant Terrorist: Biopolitical Regulation at the Borders
Nick L. Clarkson, University of Indiana, Bloomington

Back to the Land? Colonialist Histories and the Lesbian Separatist Movement
K. Schweighofer, University of Indiana, Bloomington

What the "Veil" Reveals: Race, Religion, Sexuality and the French Female Body
Jess Deshayes, Simmons College

CHAIR/RESPONDENT: Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

8-9:45 pm An Evening of Performance
La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 W. Nevada Street, Urbana

Introduction, Michelle Salerno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dear Dan Savage…It Only Get’s Better When We Make It So!
Durell M. Callier, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Material Boy: An Adaptation of Queer South Asian Fiction
Kareem Khubchandani, Northwestern University
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Saturday, May 7
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 W. Nevada Street, Urbana

9-10:45 am Queer Kinship
Queering the Family?: Situating the Transnational Adoptee as a Diasporic Figure within the Domestic
Sarah Moon Cassinelli, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

See Daddy, Sinners Have Souls Too: An Examination of Queer Daughters of Black Pastors Negotiating Their Identities
Marsha Horsley, Indiana University, Bloomington

Gender in the Transnational Imaginary: The Dialectics of Diaspora in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
Scott B. Kissick, University of Notre Dame

Bodies of Work in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt
James Mulder, Tufts University

CHAIR/RESPONDENT: Richard T. Rodríguez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

11 am-12:45 pm Queer Challenges to 'Progress'
Pull Yourself Up by Your Strap-On!: Narratives of Progress and the Trans Subject in the L Word
Elizabeth Williams, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Queer: Ur Doin’ It Wrong
Mel Stanfill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Queer-blindness on the Court: A Racialized Future of Equal Protection and Marriage
Peter O. Campbell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tactical Abjection: Sex, Race and the Prediscursive in the Work of Kent Monkman
Susan Briana Livingston, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign

CHAIR/RESPONDENT: Fiona Ngô, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Follow this link for a google docs version and pass it around to anyone you think may be interested in our slate of papers.

Can not wait!

Conference Shuttle Schedule

Hi DQ Conference Participants,

We are excited to provide shuttle service throughout the conference between the conference hotel and campus buildings where conference events will be held. Follow this link to access the shuttle schedule.

See you soon!

(Dis)Locating Queer: Schedule Rundown!

Hi Everyone,

Here is our schedule of events for the rapidly approaching (Dis)Locating Queer Conference! Please Facebook, tweet and MySpace this info far and wide, particularly to interested graduate students or faculty at your home institution. This schedule will be updated as further information becomes available. See you then!

(Dis)locating Queer Symposium Program Schedule

--Unless otherwise indicated, all conference events will take place at the Asian American Cultural Center located at:

1210 West Nevada Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801

THURSDAY, May 5

5:00-7:00 pm, Conference registration (and informal meet and greet).

7:30pm, Keynote Address

“Rethinking ‘Illegal’ Immigration Through Queer Theories”

Eithne Luibhéid, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona. To be held at Levis Faculty Center, located at 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801

9:00-10:00pm, Post Keynote Reception. Levis Faculty Center

FRIDAY, May 6

9:00 am-10:45 am, Panel 1: Disrupting Queer Narratives of Community

11:00 am- 12:45 pm, Panel 2: Unsettling Queer Regions

12:45-1:45pm, Lunch (provided by us)

2:00-3:45 pm, Panel 3: Queering Imperial Encounters

4:00-5:45 pm, Panel 4: Sexually Dangerous Citizens

FRIDAY NIGHT: An Evening of Performance, featuring Durell Callier (UIUC) and Kareem Khubchandani (Northwestern University)

SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS:

9:00-10:45 am, Panel 5: Queer Kinship

11:00 am - 12:45 pm, Panel 6: Queer Challenges to "Progress"

Information on Conference Lodging and Transportation

Lodging

We have reserved a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn in Urbana, IL at the rate of $79/night.

Holiday Inn Urbana
1001 Killarney Street
Urbana, IL 61801
217-328-7900

Reservations: Conference participants must call the hotel at 217-328-7900. Please use the group code “GWS” when making your reservation in order to get the conference rate of $79/night.

Cut-off date: Please reserve your room by April 25. (Rooms not reserved by that date will be released for general sale.)

Guarantee method: A major credit card of advance deposit is required to guarantee reservations.

Check-in/out: Standard hotel check-in time is 4pm. Standard check-out time is 12noon. Should you need to change these times, please alert the agent when making a reservation.

Cancellation Policy: Individuals may cancel reservations up until 6pm on the day of arrival with no penalty. Should cancellation not be received by 6pm, you will be charged for the first night of the stay, plus tax.

For more information, email us for a .pdf fact sheet.

Local transportation:

Shuttle: Because the Holiday Inn is not within walking distance to campus, we will arrange a shuttle between the hotel and campus for conference participants.

Parking: If you are driving to Champaign and would like to park your car on campus, you will need a parking pass for Lot F29 which is located on the corner of Dorner and Gregory. Out-of-town conference participants should e-mail Virginia Swisher by noon on April 25 to request a parking pass for the campus lot.

Transportation to Champaign-Urbana:

Airport: Willard Airport (CMI) has service through American Airlines. For transportation from the airport to the hotel, please contact the Holiday Inn for information about a courtesy van.

Train: Amtrak has daily service to Champaign. For transportation from the train station, please contact the Holiday Inn for information about arranging for a courtesy van.

Automobiles: Champaign-Urbana is at the intersection of I-72, I-74 and I-57. Please see the Holiday Inn website for directions to the hotel.

Upcoming Queer-Friendly Talk at the U of I!

Thursday, March 31, 7:30 pm
Levis Faculty Center, Music Room (2nd Floor)

"Emerging Queer and Queer-Friendly Latina/o Filmmakers in Chicago"
Bill Johnson Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, DePaul University

A reception will follow the talk

Bill Johnson Gonzalez is Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University, where he teaches courses on 20th century American literature, U.S. Latino culture, and film. He received his PhD from the Comparative Literature Department at Harvard University in 2010. With Brad Epps and Keja Valens, he co-edited the volume Passing Lines: Immigration and Sexuality, which was published by Harvard Univ. Press in 2005. He is currently at work on The Surprise of Otherness: A Barbara Johnson Reader, a co-edited project that will be published by Duke University Press in 2012. He has presented and published articles on Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodriguez, Octavio Paz, sexuality, and race.

Co-sponsored by the Queer Studies Reading Group on Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas; Department of Gender and Women's Studies; Graduate School Focal Point Initiative; Latina/Latino Studies Program; Asian American Studies Program; Department of Anthropology.

Welcome to (Dis)Locating Queer: The Conference Blog!

On behalf of the conference organizers we're pleased to invite you to our conference blog. We'll be posting relevant announcements and information related to the conference. We can't wait to see you in Urbana from May 5-7 for an exciting slate of presentation and performance!

Confirmed Events:

Keynote Address, 
Thursday May 5, 7:00pm Levis Faculty Center
Speaker: Eithne
Luibhéid
Associate
 Professor, 
Gender
&
Women's 
Studies, 
University
 of 
Arizona. Author
 of
 Entry 
 Denied: 
Controlling
 Sexuality 
at 
the
 Border
 (University of 
Minnesota 
Press,
 2002)
 and 
 co‐editor 
of
 Queer
 Migrations:
 Sexuality, 
U.S.
Citizenship, 
and 
Border
 Crossings 
 (University 
of 
Minnesota
Press,
 2005).