Conference Program

	Q		LOS ANGELES
		UEER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2006


Friday, October 20, 2006	Royce Hall
Saturday, October 21, 2006	University of California, Los Angeles

	Friday Program
	Saturday Program
	General Information

FRIDAY
1:00-2:30	PANEL SESSION 1
1A	Identity Issues
	Royce	Moderator:
	Kevin Mumford, University of Iowa, History In the Life of Joseph Beam: Re-Writing the Politics of Identity in the 1980s
	Jesse Field, University of Minnesota, Asian Cultures, Media, and Languages Calls for Queerness: The Queer Lyric Subject in Contemporary Chinese Poetry of Taiwan
	Juliana M. Kubala, Georgia State University, Women's Studies Lost in Space: Identity Politics at the Intersections of Queer and Anti-Racist Activism in Atlanta
1B	History / Literature / Theory
	Royce	Moderator:
	Dustin Friedman, UCLA, English "Parents of the Mind": Masculinity, Aesthetics, and Sensibility in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Maria or the Wrongs of Woman
	Zacharey Lamm, Loyola University Chicago, English Alternative Lifestyles: Hawthorne's Queer Romance
	Sam See, UCLA, English "Even Sodomy Can Be Sane and Wholesome": D. H. Lawrence and Sexual-Poetic Purity
1C	Violence and the State
	Royce	Moderator:
	Emma Heaney, UC Irvine, Comparative Literature Citizen Sex-Pervert, Citizen Rape Victim: Lynndie England and Jessica Lynch as Female Protagonists of the War on Terror Show
	Ka Hin "Alvin" Wong, UC San Diego, Literature Remapping the Politics of Queer Institutionality: Josephine Ho's "Perversity" and the Question of Academic and State Legitimacy in Taiwan
	Deborah Cohler, San Francisco State University, Women Studies Solidarity, Sex, and the State: Drag King Dreams Deferred after 9/11
1D	Recent Scholarship on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
	Organized by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law
	Royce	Moderator: M.V. Lee Badgett, UCLA, Williams Institute
	Holning Lau, UCLA, Williams Institute Pluralism: A Principle for Children's Rights
	Danielle MacCartney, UCLA, Williams Institute Occupational Effects on the Wages of Cohabiting Gay Men and Lesbians
	Rebecca Stotzer, UCLA, Williams Institute Spaces between Places: Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation

2:45-3:45	KEYNOTE	314 Royce
	Janet Jakobsen
	Perverse Justice
	Introduction: Jennifer Terry, UC Irvine, Women's Studies

3:45-5:00	RECEPTION	306 Royce

5:30-7:00	PERFORMANCE	Macgowan Little Theater
	Michelle Matlock
	The Mammy Project
	Introduction: David Román, University of Southern California, English

SATURDAY
9:30-11:00	PANEL SESSION 2
2A	Art and Mourning
	Royce	Moderator:
	Jian Chen, UC Irvine, Comparative Literature Hyperbolic Somatic Imaginaries: Queer Intimacies in Para-/Trans-national Taiwanese and Hong Kong Cinemas
	Jordy Jones, UC Irvine, Visual Studies Sister, Brother, Other, Lover: Identitfication, Desire, and Mourning in the Work of Lyle Ashton Harris
	Margaux Cowden, UC Irvine, Comparative Literature Mobilizing the Moribund: Queer Ethics of Death in Close to the Knives
2B	Men and Masculinities
	Royce	Moderator:
	Nguyen Tan Hoang, UC Berkeley, Film Studies A View from the Bottom: Gay Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
	Marcus C. Tye, Dowling College, Psychology Bye-bye Bi? Of Bailey, Biphobia, and Girly-Men
	Nicole Eschen, UCLA, Theater Femmes fatales: Lesbian Sexuality and film noir in Lady Dick and Lesbians Who Kill
2C	Desiring Deviance
	Royce	Moderator: Karen Tongson, University of Southern California, English
	Christine Bacareza Balance, NYU, Performance Studies Searching for Cunanan: The Fictions of Desiring Deviance and Queer/Filipino America
	Joshua Chambers-Letson, NYU, Performance Studies An Ontology of Promiscuity? 2046 and Althusser's Encounter
	Robert G. Diaz, CUNY Graduate Center, English Queer Undoing in Markova: Comfort Gay
2D	Local Histories
	Royce	Moderator:
	Peter Hobbs, University of Rochester, Visual and Cultural Studies The Gay Geography Lesson: Policing Bathroom Sex
	Clare Sears, UC Santa Cruz, Sociology Drag Arrests and Protests in Mid-Twentieth Century San Francisco
	Stuart Timmons, Los Angeles "Vicious" Los Angeles: Queer Doings in the Turn-of-the-Century West, 1870-1914
2E	New Media Activism
	Royce	Moderator:
	Jessica Giusti, University of Minnesota, Feminist Studies MyQueerSpace: Queer Cyborg Representation and the Medium of MySpace
	Julia Steinmetz, NYU, Preformance Studies Transfeminist Trespass: Activism, Aesthetics and Pilot TV
	Fatima El-Tayeb, UC San Diego, Literature Queering Ethnicity: European Minority Activism and New Media Cultures

11:15-12:15	KEYNOTE	314 Royce
	Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
	Title to be announced

12:15-1:30	LUNCH	306 Royce

1:30-3:00	PANEL SESSION 3
3A	Publics and Counter-Publics in the Past
	Royce	Moderator:
	Justin Bengry, UC Santa Barbara, History "A trifle 'pansy' to my low mind": Queer Imagery and Audiences in Britain, Men Only 1935-1939
	Kinohi Nishikawa, Duke University, Literature Sexology, Perversion, and Critique: Sex Paperbacks in Postwar American Culture
3B	Lesbiana
	Royce	Moderator:
	Margaret Sönser Breen, University of Connecticut, English and Women's Studies Remaking Gendered Systems of Story in Bastard Out of Carolina and The Way the Crow Flies
	Ashley T. Shelden, Tufts University, English Lesboplegia: Observations on Lesbian Love
	Linda Garber, Santa Clara University, English and Women and Gender The Curious Persistence of Lesbian Studies
3C	Intimate Relations: Local and Global
	Royce	Moderator:
	Elizabeth B. Erbaugh, Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Queering Anti-Violence Politic: LGBTQ Community Organizing Against Intimate Partner Violence
	Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara, Law and Society New Vice Police in Rio and Cairo: Policing the "Perversions of Globalization"
	James Thing, University of Southern California, Sociology Queer Social Networks: Constructing Sexual Subjectivities Among "Gay" Mexican Men
3D	Drag
	Royce	Moderator:
	Eser Selen, NYU, Performance Studies Queer Performances or the Peculiarities of Turkey: Bülent Ersoy, Zeki Müren, and Huysuz Virin (Seyfi Dursunoglu)
	La Marr J. Bruce, Yale University, American and African-American Studies Black Drag Queens, White Heteronormativity, and "Happily Ever After" in American Cinema
	Malik Gaines, California Institute of the Arts, Critical Studies It Ain't Necessarily So: Vaginal Davis, Kalup Linzy, and Queer Performances of Blackness
3E	Law, Performance, and Cultural Politics
	Royce	Moderator:
	Patrick Paul Garlinger, NYU, Law Losing One's Gender: Performance, Authenticity, and Transgenderism in U.S. Case Law
	Sean Metzger, Duke University, English and Theatre Studies Bodies of as Evidence: Televised Testimony, Hate Crime, and Queer Performance
	Eden Osucha, Brown University, Pembroke Center Privacy and Its Discontents: Bad Sex, Good Gender, and Queer Utopianism after Lawrence v. Texas

3:15-4:15	KEYNOTE	314 Royce
	Rose Troche
	in Conversation with Patricia White

4:15-5:30	RECEPTION	306 Royce

GENERAL INFORMATION	This year's LA Queer Studies Conference is the successor to the QGrad conferences held annually at UCLA beginning in 1999 and conferences organized the past two years in conjunction with USC. Although we have abandoned the conference for graduate students only, we have encouraged substantial graduate student participation, since one of the goals of the current format is to foster the exchange of ideas between graduate student and faculty scholars.
	The conference is free and open to the public. Those who are presenting papers on one of the panels at the conference must pay a $25 registration fee (payable to UC Regents). This fee includes the cost of lunch on Saturday.
	The conference has been organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program.
	The conference organizers are grateful for the cosponsorship and support ot the following UCLA units: 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, English, Film, TV, and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Musicology, and Theater. 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	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.