Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

"THINKING WITH LITERATURE", a lecture by Peggy Kamuf

“WHAT IS COMPARATIVE LITERATURE?”

Second Lecture in the Series

PEGGY KAMUF (Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature - University of Southern California)

“THINKING WITH LITERATURE”

This lecture takes place on Tuesday November 2, 2005 at 5:00 pm in the Morris Seminar Room 306 Royce Hall.

Peggy Kamuf's books have dealt with 17th and 18th-century French fiction (Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise, 1982), the theory of the signature in Derrida, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf (Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship, 1988) and the institutionalization of literary studies in France from the Revolution to 1914 (The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction, 1997). She has also published numerous essays in feminist anthologies (on Foucault, Derrida, Cixous) and on literary theory. Many of these essays are collected in her Book of Addresses (2004). She is the editor of two collections of essays by Derrida: A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (1991) and Without Alibi (2002), as well as a special journal issue on Jean-Luc Nancy. She is an active translator, principally of texts by Derrida, but also by Nancy and Serge Leclaire. In 1995, she received the Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award, in 1998 she was invited to teach at the Centre d'Études Féminines at the Université de Paris VIII, and in 2002 she was the invited senior fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell. Her research concerns deconstructive literary theory, which she also pursues through her interest in American literature.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu)

LGBTS 9th Annual Lecture Series: Karen Tongson

Karen Tongson Assistant Professor, English & Gender Studies University of Southern California

From Weissnichtwo to Kalihi: The Accent in Queer Provincial Imaginaries

In this paper Tongson presents a theory of what she calls a “queer accent.” Building upon her work on nineteenth- century British literature—work that characterizes “the accent” as a species of formal literary excess that makes legible negotiations among spaces and temporalities separating “the city” from a “don’t know where”—this presentation on Filipino-American author R. Zamora Linmark’s 1995 novel Rolling the R’s poses a challenge to cosmopolitanist accounts of queer subjectivities and cultures in contemporary America.

Thursday, November 3, 2005 4:00 pm in 164 Royce Hall

The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information contact the LGBT Studies Program at lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu or 310 206 0516.

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

THIS WEEKEND: The 2005 Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference: QUEER SCAPES: Body Space Sexuality

QUEER SCAPES:

BODY SPACE SEXUALITY

Friday, November 18, 2005 at USC / the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Saturday, November 19, 2005 at UCLA

Keynote speakers: Jacqui Alexander, David Eng, Alma Lopez, Michael Lucey, Catherine Opie

Plenary session: New Directions in Queer Latino/a Studies, with Luz Calvo, Licia Fiol-Matta, Richard T. Rodriguez, and Sandra Soto.

Panel presentations by 50 graduate student and faculty scholars

For further information, please see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC.html

Organized by

the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program and the USC Center for Feminist Research

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC.html

LGBTS 9th Annual Lecture Series: Tom Boellstorff

Prefigurations: Queer Futures in Anthropology, Anthropological Futures in Queer Studies

Monday, February 6 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall

In this talk, Tom Boellstorff addresses the relationship between anthropology and queer studies by looking at conceptions of time and disciplinarity. The goal is to investigate how queer studies and anthropology might forge new interdisciplinary collaborations by rethinking their relationship to "the future."

Cosponsored by Department of Anthropology

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

LGBTS 9th Annual Lecture Series: Tom Boellstorff

TOM BOELLSTORFF Anthropology, UC Irvine Prefigurations: Queer Futures of Anthropology, Anthropological Futures of Queer Studies

In this talk, Tom Boellstorff addresses the relationship between anthropology and queer studies by looking at conceptions of time and disciplinarity. The goal is to investigate how queer studies and anthropology might forge new interdisciplinary collaborations by rethinking their relationship to "the future."

Cosponsored by Department of Anthropology

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

LGBTS 9th Annual Lecture Series: Jill Dolan

Jill Dolan Theater and Dance, University of Texas, Austin

From Flannel to Fleece: Performing Lesbian Generations

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:00 pm 2310C Macgowan

The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information, contact the LGBT Studies Program at lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu or 310 206 0516. Organized by Critical Studies, Department of Theatre

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

LGBTS 9th Annual Lecture Series: Horacio Roque Ramírez

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez Assistant Prof. of Chicana and Chicano Studies University of California, Santa Barbara

Gay Latino Histories / Dying to Be Done

In this talk, Roque Ramírez addresses gay Latino history in relation to the AIDS epidemic and the underused strategies and lack of research projects to document, archive, and present this multigender social, cultural, and political history.

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 4:00 pm 314 Royce Hall

The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information contact the LGBT Studies Program at lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu or 310 206 0516.

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

LGBTS Lecture Series: Erik N. Jensen

4:00 pm, 334C Germanic Languages Seminar Room, Royce Hall

ERIK N. JENSEN

Department of History, Miami University

Fist-fighting Females! Weimar Women's Boxing between Sensationalism and Sport

This paper explores the representation and practice of women's boxing in Weimar Germany and the ways in which the sport both challenged and reaffirmed traditional notions of feminine athleticism and sexuality. At the same time, though, popular images of women's boxing almost perfectly paralleled those of men's boxing, suggesting ways in which the sport itself was defined by theatricality, passivity (as well as activity), and a blurring of the subjective and objective body.

Cosponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Jennifer Terry: Governmentality, Sentimentality, and Imperial Erotics in ‘Extreme Cinema Verité’

Jennifer Terry Associate Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Irvine

Governmentality, Sentimentality, and Imperial Erotics in ‘Extreme Cinema Verité’

Monday, May 22, 2006 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

This paper analyzes the mechanisms of governmentality, affect, and homoerotics that are evident in visual images of the US led war in Iraq produced in an amateur, do-it- yourself fashion by US soldiers. Circulating on the internet, they provide an unofficial genre of war coverage that tends to valorize male-bonding, aggressive militancy, technofetishism, and racism against Arabs. Terry explores the gender, race, nationalist, and erotic politics surrounding the making and circulation of these “extreme cinema verite” texts, and shows their uncanny connection to an ideologically opposite but formally similar kind of media production: a genre of DIY moving image productions grouped under the heading of “Jihad movies" and produced by opponents of the US occupation of Iraq.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference 2006

October 20-21, 2006

Royce Hall

Free to the public!

The conference has been organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. The conference is cosponsored by the following UCLA divisions, centers, institutes, and departments: the Graduate Division, the Division of Humanities, the Division of Social Sciences, the Center for Performance Studies, the Center for the Study of Women, the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, and the departments of Anthropology, Art History, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film, TV, and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Musicology, Spanish and Portuguese, and Theater.

-- submitted by Courtney D. Johnson (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/LAQSC06.html

Foreign Languages in the Professions: Business, Translation, Interpretation.

Center for World Languages • 1333 Rolfe Hall • PO Box 951411 • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1411 Tel: (310) 825-2510 • Fax: (310) 206-5183

-- submitted by Jenny M. (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact sbauckus@earthlink.net

Dancing Queen: Selena's Queer Citizenship

Cosponsored by the Chicano Studies Research Center

-- submitted by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

LGBTS Lecture

ANDREAS KRASS

A THORN IN THE FLESH: A QUEER READING OF KLEIST’S “ON THE MARIONETTE THEATER”

Wednesday, May 9, 2007 5:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

Andreas Krass is professor of German literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He has published important works on medieval literature and cultural studies and edited the only collection of queer theoretical texts translated from English into German.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For further information contact the LGBT Studies Program at lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu or 310 206 0516

-- submitted by Courtney D. Marshall (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

LGBTS Lecture: The Queer Crime of Cross Dressing

In 1974, in the city’s Tenderloin district, the San Francisco Police Department arrested ten drag queens for the criminal offense of wearing women’s clothing. According to the police, the queens were violating a local cross-dressing law that made it illegal to appear in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors had passed this law more than a century earlier as part of a broader attempt to regulate “good morals and decency.” However, far from being a nineteenth-century anachronism, cross-dressing law had proved remarkably durable, and by the mid-twentieth century it had become a flexible tool for policing emerging lesbian, gay and transsexual communities. In this talk, Clare Sears analyzes the history of San Francisco’s cross-dressing law, with particular focus on the forces that undermined its viability and led to its removal from the law books in 1976. Her analysis focuses on the emergence of a medicalized transsexual identity, struggles between doctors and police for ownership of this gender offense, and transsexual women’s efforts to deploy medical discourse to challenge the law.

-- submitted by Courtney D. Marshall (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)