(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"