Los angeles queer studies conference 2008

Friday and Saturday, October 10-11, 2008
Royce Hall, UCLA

1:00-2:30

Plenary Panel

Diasporic Sexualities
314 Royce
Moderator: Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California, English and Gender Studies

Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Yale University, Anthropology and African American Studies
"Find Yourself a Friend": Black Resistance and Self-making

Gayatri Gopinath, NYU, Social and Cultural Analysis
Queer Regions

Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
Queer Returns: Human Rights, the Anglo-Caribbean, and Diaspora Politics

2:45-3:45

Plenary Panels

A: Queer Art and Visual Culture
314 Royce

Catherine Lord, UC Irvine, Art
Richard Meyer, University of Southern California, Art History
Art and Queer Culture: A Collaboration

B: Trans Studies Meets Queer Studies
306 Royce
Moderator: Talia Bettcher, Cal State, Los Angeles, Philosophy

Jacob Hale, Cal State Northridge, Philosophy
Thinking Trans Studies Separately from Queer Studies

Viviane Namaste, Concordia University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute
Trans Studies and Queer Studies: Intersections in English, Collisions in Other Languages?

4:00-5:30

Panel Session One

Gender Variance
150 Royce
Moderator: David Valentine, University of Minnesota, Anthropology

Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro, Franklin & Marshall College, Spanish
Masculinities at War: Mexico Marimacho and the Female Soldier

Reid Uratani, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Political Science
Problematizing Paradise: The Hawaiian Transgender Body as a Site of Colonization

Laurel Westbrook, UC Berkeley, Sociology
Producing Transgender: The Defining and Promotion of the Term “Transgender” in the Trans Community Press

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
314 Royce
Moderator: Gary Gates, UCLA, Senior Research Fellow, Williams Institute

Doug NeJaime, Sears Law Teaching Fellow, UCLA, Williams Institute
Cause Lawyering in the "Culture War"

Naomi Goldberg, Cooper Public Policy Fellow, UCLA, Williams Institute
Gay Boomers: Inequalities Facing Gays and Lesbians in Retirement

Michael Steinberger, Public Policy Fellow, UCLA, Williams Institute
Wage and Employment Differences by Sexual Orientation

Avant Garde Art
152 Royce
Moderator: Richard Meyer, University of Southern California, Art History

Claire Ruud, Southwestern University, Art History
Queer Adventures: Feminist and Queer Impulses in Eleanor Antin’s 1976 Adventures of a Nurse

Robert Summers, UCLA, Art History
Pictures that Queer: Politics/Aesthetics of Mourning

Queering US History
148 Royce
Moderator: Catherine Lord, UC Irvine, Art

Kyla Schuller, UC San Diego, Literature
Dr. Queer, Medicine Man-Lady

L. Chase Smith, UC San Diego, Literature
Bawdy Amusements and the Undergarments of “Progress” at San Diego’s Panama-California Exposition (1915-1916)

Jennifer Worley, City College of San Francisco, English
“Street Power” and the Claiming of Public Space: San Francisco’s Vanguard Youth Group and Pre-Stonewall Queer Radicalism

5:30-6:30

Reception
306 Royce

6:30

Queer Performance
Macgowan Little Theater

Adelina Anthony
Mastering Sex and Tortillas!

My Barbarian
Non-Western

SATURDAY

9:00-10:30

Panel Session Two

Deceiving Constructions: Black Gendered Bodies in Art, Time, Space
150 Royce
Moderator: Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Yale University, Anthropology and African American Studies

Deborah Alkamano, University of Southern California, American Studies
“The Negation of the Negation”: Queer Cuts, Kara Walker’s Aesthetic

Talia Bettcher, Cal State Los Angeles, Philosophy
Gender Deception, Modesty, and Race

Jennifer DeClue, Cal State Los Angeles, Race, Gender, Media Studies
“Getting Aggressive”: A Black Feminist Reading of Daniel Peddle’s The Aggressives

Queer Musical Genealogies
162 Royce
Moderator: Mitchell Morris, UCLA, Musicology

Jeremy Mikush, UCLA, Musicology
Magical Dreamers, Bewitching Gypsies: Voice and Power in the Queer Rock Diva

Zarah Ersoff, UCLA, Musicology
Velvet Goldmine’s Queer Mythologies

Bethany Smith, University of Cincinnati, Musicology
Inside the "Box": Representations of Sexual, Spatial, and Aural Confinement within Tori Amos's "Raspberry Swirl.'"

Queer Urbanity
160 Royce
Moderator: Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania, English

Sam See, UCLA, English
Djuna Barnes’s Concentrated Camp

Geneva Gano, Stanford University, English
Race, Sex, and Queer Aesthetics in Nathanael West’s Los Angeles

James Landau, UCLA, English
Queer Diasporas: Reading Mobility in James Baldwin’s Another Country

Globalization and the Human
314 Royce
Moderator: Steven Epstein, UC San Diego, Sociology

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology
“How Should I Know That My Ass Belongs to the State?”  Globalization, Anti-Sodomy Law, and the Discursive Struggles around Homosexuality in Postcolonial India

Chantal Nadeau, Concordia University, Communication Studies
Queer Walls

Sybille N. Nyeck, UCLA, Political Science
Mobilizing Against the Invisible: Erotic Nationalism, Mass Media, Paranoia, and the Politics of Contempt in Cameroon

Mediated Queer Socialities and Identities
156 Royce
Moderator: Mary L. Gray, Indiana University, Communication and Culture

Julie Rosso, Brown University, Modern Culture and Media
Labors of Love: Economies of Identity in The L Word’s Fan-Driven Online Promotions

Alexis Lothian, University of Southern California, English
Doing Boys Like They’re Girls, and Other (Trans)Gendered Subjects: The Queer Subcultural Politics of “Genderfuck” Fan Fiction

Jill A. Bakehorn, UC Davis, Sociology
Bordering on Activism: Authenticity and Identity Politics in Women-Made Porn

10:45-12:15

Plenary Panel

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

Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania, English
Gyn/Apology

Juana María Rodríguez, UC Berkeley, Gender and Women's Studies
Sex, Sociality and Other Queer Possibilities

Valerie Traub, University of Michigan, English and Women's Studies
Early Modern Sex Acts

Lunch

1:15-2:45

Plenary Panel

Queer Studies in the Social Sciences: Ethics, Politics, Epistemics
314 Royce
Moderator: Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

Steven Epstein, UC San Diego, Sociology
Queer Biocitizenship: Biomedicine, Sexuality, and Politics

Mary L. Gray, Indiana University, Communication and Culture
Engaging Vulnerable Subjects: Queering Social Science Research at the Twilight of the Public University

David Valentine, University of Minnesota, Anthropology
Becoming An Other, or: How My Methodology Gave Me an Identity

3:00-4:30

Panel Session Three

Alternative Kinships
162 Royce
Moderator: Sandra Harding, UCLA, Education and Women's Studies

Yin-Chin Chen, University of Oregon, Journalism
Bodies and Spaces: Transnational Ethnic and Sexual Identities in Saving Face

Yael Mishali, Tel Aviv University, Cultural Studies
My Mother's Daughter or: Could I be a Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) Lesbian?

Alvin Ka Hin Wong, UC San Diego, Literature
Queering the Sinophone: Alternative Kinships at the Margin of Chineseness

Thinking Race and Sex
150 Royce
Moderator: Viviane Namaste, Concordia University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute

Stephen P. Dillon, University of Minnesota, American Studies
Unseen and Unknown: Neo-Liberalism, the Prison Industrial Complex, and Imprisoned Queer Political Logic

Yumi Pak, UC San Diego, Literature
Chester Himes’s Yesterday Will Make You Cry

The Queer Past
160 Royce
Moderator: Valerie Traub, University of Michigan, English and Women's Studies

Will Fisher, Lehman College, City University of New York, English
The Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs: Sexual Flagellation in Early Modern England

Christine Gottlieb, UCLA, English
Intimacies in the Margins:  Grotesque Aging and Queer Friendships in the Writings of Montaigne, Swift, and Montagu

Bambi Lobdell, SUNY Oneonta, English and Women’s Studies
Queer Pioneer

Homonormativity and Nation
156 Royce
Moderator: Gayatri Gopinath, NYU, Social and Cultural Analysis

Jih-Fei Cheng, University of Southern California, American Studies and Ethnicity
Sex, Crimes, and Punishment: A Tour of Duty

R. Benedito Ferrao, Birkbeck College, University of London, English
The Queer Case of the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom: Querying Queer Citizenship and Nation

Liz Montegary, UC Davis, Cultural Studies
The Exceptional Soldier: Homonationalism and the Fight to Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

4:45-5:45

Plenary Session
314 Royce

Cheryl Dunye
Seeing in the Dark: An Insight into Queer Black Experimental Cinema

5:45

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. Although we no longer limit the conference to graduate students, we always encourage 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.

Directions

Royce Hall and Macgowan Hall are 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 $9 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

Sponsors

The LA Queer Studies Conference 2008 is organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program with generous support from

the David Bohnett Foundation, the Gill Foundation

and the UCLA Division of Humanities, Graduate Division, Center for the Study of Women, Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, and the departments of Anthropolopgy, Art History, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film, TV, and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, Musicology, Sociology, and Women's Studies