LOS ANGELES QUEER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2005
QUEER SCAPES BODY SPACE SEXUALITY
  Friday, November 18, 2005 University of Southern California, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
  Saturday, November 19, 2005 University of California, Los Angeles
 
  Friday Program
      Saturday Program
      General Information
      Conference Poster
       
   
Friday
  ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
      Directions
       
     
8:30-9:00
  Welcome Breakfast
       
     
9:00-10:30
  Panel Session 1
     
1A
  Liminal Spaces
      Moderator Judith Halberstam, USC, Gender Studies
     

Elizabeth Heard, NYU, Performance Studies
Queering the Salon: Natalie Clifford Barney

     

Richard Dellamora, Trent University, English and Cultural Studies
The Séance as Queer Scape: The Psychic Archive of Radclyffe Hall

     

Clare Sears, UC Santa Cruz, Sociology
Gates and Hells: Spaces of Vice in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

     
1B
  Queer Labor
     

Katrin Pahl, Johns Hopkins, German
Queer-Scaping Post-Soviet Global Labor

     

Jane Ward, UC Riverside, Sociology
Butch/Trans Masculinity and the Gender Labor of Femme Partners

     

Luís Villanueva, San Diego State, Latin American Studies
Michês as Fetish Commodities in Western Europe

     
1C
  Perverse Empiricisms in Late-Century Japan
     

Jonathan M. Hall, UC Irvine, CompLit and Film and Media Studies
Hashiguchi Ryosuke and the Attraction of Objects

     

Yukiko Hanawa, NYU, East Asian Studies
Deterritorialization and the Queer Cityscape

     

Claire Maree, Tsuda College, Tokyo, English
Suki nan ya: Onê-kotoba or the Language of Queens

       
     
10:30-11:00
  Coffee Break
       
     
11:00-12:30
  Keynote
      Jacqui Alexander, University of Toronto, Women and Gender Studies
      Introduction Gayatri Gopinath, UC Davis, Women and Gender Studies
       
     
12:30-1:30
  Lunch
       
     
1:30-3:00
  Panel Session 2
     
2A
  Politics of Family
     

Moderator

Karen Halttunen, USC, History
     

Samuel Bañales, UC San Diego, Ethnic Studies
Same-Sex Marriage and the Discourse of Homonormativity

     

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, NYU, History of Art
Family Value, Queer and Victorian:  Frederic Leighton’s “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it”

     

Emily Hobson, USC, American Studies and Ethnicity
“On This Other Side of 1968”: Situating Gay Liberation in Anti-Imperialist Politics

     
2B
  Queering Spanish Literary Bodies: Emerging Queer Literature in Spain and Latin America
     

Moderator

Maria Elena Martinez, USC, History
     

Arturo Arias, University of Redlands, Latin American Studies
Queering The Latin American Literary Canon: Fernando Vallejo’s Reconfiguration of the Past from a Contemporary Perspective

     

Juan A. Herrero-Brasas, Cal State Northridge, Religious Studies
Antonio Roig: Literature, Ethics, and Activism

      Jill Robbins, UC Irvine, Spanish and Portuguese
Family Ties:  Gay Marriage in Madrid
     

Sofia Ruiz-Alfaro, USC, Cinema and Television
Chavela Vargas and the Transnational Lesbian Identity

     
2C
  Local Cultures
      Moderator Karen Tongson, USC, English and Gender Studies
     

Eve Shapiro, UC Santa Barbara, Sociology
Drag Performance, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Desires

     

Nicole Eschen, UCLA, Theater Critical Studies
Across Space and Time: Bricktops and the Performance of Los Angeles

     

Sara Wolf, UCLA, World Arts and Cultures, Culture and Performance
Queer Worldmaking, Glocal Habitats of Meaning, and Las Butchlalis de Panochtitlan’s Geographies of Butch Papí Desire

       
     
3:00-3:30
  Coffee Break
       
     
3:30-5:00
  Panel Session 3
     
3A
  Queer Spectatorship
      Moderator Sarah Gualtieri, USC, History and American Studies and Ethnicity
     

Candace Moore, UCLA, Theater, Film and Television
Kristen Schilt, UCLA, Sociology
Do Gender Crossings Have Crossover Potential?: Female Masculinities on The L Word’s Season One

     

Jaclyn I. Pryor, UT Austin, Theater and Dance
“L” is for Legibility: Race, Revelation and “Ocular Proof” in Showtime’s The L Word

     

Nicholas A. De Villiers, University of Minnesota, Cultural Studies and CompLit
Looking Queer: Glancing, Cruising, Staring

     
3B
  Queering Ourselves: The Centrality of Queerness to Radical Women of Color Organizing
      Moderator Osa Hidalgo de la Riva
      Roiya Zara, UC Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness
Critically Understanding the (Hyper) Visibility of This Bridge Called My Back: Making the (Invisible) Women of Color Movements Visible
     

Sandra C. Alvarez, UC Santa Cruz, Politics
Women of Color Organizing: Creating Queer Spaces in between the Streets and the Sheets 

      Susy J. Zepeda, UC Santa Cruz, Sociology
Radical Women of Color Conceptual Lens: Interconnectedness of Identity Formations, Methodologies and Political Projects
       
     
5:00-5:30
  Coffee Break
       
     
5:30-7:00
  Plenary
      New Directions in Latina/o Studies
      Luz Calvo, Cal State East Bay, Ethnic Studies
      Licia Fiol-Matta, Lehman College, CUNY, Latin American Studies
      Richard T. Rodriguez, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, English and Latina/o Studies
      Sandra Soto, University of Arizona, Tucson, Women's Studies
      Moderator Deborah Vargas, UC Irvine, Chicano/Latino Studies
      Respondent Maylei Blackwell, UCLA, Chicana/o Studies
       
     
7:00-8:00
  Reception and Book Party for
      Jacqui Alexander, Gayatri Gopinath, and David Roman
 
Saturday
  Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles
        Directions
           
     
9:00-9:30
  Breakfast
           
     
9:30-10:45
  Panel Session 4
     
4A
  Queer Spectatorship
      160 Royce  
     

Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, Women’s Studies
[Withdrew]

     

Alison Guenther-Pal, University of Minnesota, Germanic Studies
'Oh, If Only I Had a Waistcoat and Pants and a Hat!’ or Queer Eye for the Straight Gal?

     

Maria San Filippo, UCLA, Critical Studies, Film
Having It Both Ways: Female Bisexuality, Bi-Textuality, and Contemporary Crossover Cinema

     
4B
 

Bodies in Space

      314 Royce Moderator: Sue-Ellen Case, UCLA, Theater
     

Gregory Bredbeck, UC Riverside, English
Secular Ritual and the Psychogeography of the Urinal in the Men's Public Restroom; or, the Toilet Paper

     

Long T. Bui, UC San Diego, Ethnic Studies
The Queer Asian Body in Mutant Discourse

     

Kasey Eng, UCLA, Information Studies
Living the Queer Life in Video Games: Opportunities for Expression, Acceptance, and Community in Gamespace

     
4C
 

Sex Publics: Claiming Space

      156 Royce  
     

Shaka McGlotten, UT Austin, Social Anthropology
A Brief and Improper History of Queerspaces and Sexpublics in Austin, Texas

     

Alejandro Hurtado,
The Impact of Social Movements on Welfare: The Role of Government Funding in Queer Latina/o Activism

     

Isabel Millan, San Francisco State, Ethnic Studies
Marchas Lésbicas, México City:  Visibility, Accountability, and Transnationalism

     
4D
  Passionate Attachments and Queer Intimacies in Early America
      162 Royce Moderator: Joseph Dimuro, UCLA, English
     

Christopher Castiglia, Loyola University Chicago, English and Women’s Studies
Queering the White House: Lincoln and His Boyfriends

     

Christopher Looby, UCLA, English
Literary Homosexuality in Early America

     

David Van Leer, UC Davis, English
Writing from the Closet

       
      10:55-11:55   Keynote
      314 Royce
      Michael Lucey, UC Berkeley, French and Comparative Literature
     

Foucault/Duras: Sexuality, the First Person, and Literature in France in the 1980s

       
     
12:05-12:50
  Queer Visual Culture
      314 Royce Introduction by Sue-Ellen Case, UCLA, Theater
      Catherine Opie Presents Her Work
       
     
12:50-1:50
  Lunch
       
     
2:00-3:00
  Keynote
      314 Royce
     

David Eng, Rutgers University, English

      Lawrence v. Texas and the Racialization of Intimacy
     

 

     
3:10-4:30
  Panel Session 5
       
     
5A
 

Nineteenth-Century Heterotopias

      314 Royce  
     

Carina Pasquesi, Loyola University Chicago, English
Switchblade Sisters: The Antebellum Convent as Heterotopia

     

Timothy McGovern, UC Santa Barbara, Spanish and Portuguese
Queering Peninsular Fictions: Spain’s Armando Palacio Valdés and Lesbian Representation in Nineteenth-Century Spain

     

George Flaherty, UC Santa Barbara, History of Art and Architecture
Listening to a Lacuna: Saturnino Herrán, Manuel Toussaint, and the Beginnings of Queer Art Historiographic Practice in Mexico

     
5B
 

The Fifties and Sixties

      156 Royce Moderator: Sandra Harding, UCLA, Education
     

Angela Galik, University of Minnesota, American Studies
So Far Away From Home: One Magazine’s Queer Responses to Cold War Era Domestic Ideology

     

Robert Moeller, UC Irvine, History
‘Almost Rebels’: Activist Judges, Natural Law, Unnatural Acts, and the Movement to Abolish Paragraph 175 in 1960s West Germany

     

Phil Tiemeyer, UT Austin, American Studies
Flying Under the Radar: Queer Flight Attendants in the 1950s

     
5C
 

Transnational Interrogations

      160 Royce Moderator:
     

Eng-Beng Lim, SUNY Purchase, Drama Studies
Glocaqueering in New Asia

     

Wenqig Kang, UC Santa Cruz, History
The Language of Male Same-Sex Relations in Twentieth-Century China

     

Lene Myong Peterson, UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies
Coming Out Asian, Coming Out Queer

       
     
4:40-5:25
  Queer Visual Culture
      314 Royce Introduction by Luz Calvo, Cal State East Bay, Ethnic Studies
      Alma Lopez Presents Her Work
       
     
5:30-6:30
  Reception
       
   
Information
  The LA Queer Studies Conference is the successor to last year’s QFac conference held at USC, and the QGrad conferences held for the last six years at UCLA. Although we have abandoned the conference for graduate students only, we have encouraged substantial graduate student participation, since one of the goals of the new format is to foster the exchange of ideas between graduate student and faculty scholars.
        The conference is free and open to the public. There is no registration fee.
      The conference has been organized jointly by the USC Center for Feminist Research and the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program.
     

The Saturday events at UCLA are cosponsored by the following UCLA units: the Graduate Division, the Division of Humanities, the Division of Social Sciences, the Chicano Studies Research Center, the Center for the Study of Women, and the departments of Anthropology, Art History, Asian American Studies, English, French and Francophone Studies, Musicology, and Spanish and Portuguese. The conference organizers are grateful for this support.

      For further information, please contact the UCLA LGBTS office at 310 206 0516 or lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu
       
   
Directions
 
The ONE Institute and Archive is located near the USC campus at 909 West Adams Blvd. For directions and maps click here.
     
Royce Hall is located on the UCLA campus.
For directions to and maps of UCLA click here.
      Parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 4 at a cost of $8 per day. From Sunset Boulevard, enter campus by turning south onto Westwood Plaza, then proceed straight ahead to Structure 4. There is an information booth as you enter where you can purchase a parking ticket. Please let them know you are attending the LA Queer Studies Conference in Royce Hall. Since Structure 4 can get quite busy, we recommend that you leave extra time for parking.