Thursday, May 5
Levis Faculty Center, Music Room (2nd 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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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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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!
