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DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Asher, U.C. Berkeley, LGBT Studies\nLeo Bersani, U. C. Berkeley, 
 French, Emeritus\nDaniel Boyarin, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Near Eastern 
 Studies\nJudith Butler, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Comparative 
 Literature\nTerry Castle, Stanford University, English\nMelinda Chen, U.C. 
 Berkeley, Gender and Women's Studies\nWhitney Davis, U.C. Berkeley, History 
 of Art\nTim Dean, SUNY Buffalo, English\nDidier Eribon, Philosopher, 
 Paris\nElizabeth Freeman, U.C. Davis, English\nTeresa de Lauretis, U. C. 
 Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness, Emeritus\nCarla Freccero, U.C. Santa 
 Cruz, Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of\nConsciousness\nJonathan 
 M. Hall, U. C. Irvine, Comparative Literature/ Film & Media\nStudies\nDavid 
 M. Halperin, University of Michigan, History and Theory of 
 Sexuality\nHeather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania, English\nMichael 
 Lucey, U.C. Berkeley, French\nDana Luciano, Georgetown University, 
 English\nDavid Marriott, U.C. Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness\nRobert 
 McRuer, George Washington University, English\nStefania Pandolfo, U.C. 
 Berkeley, Anthropology\nAdam Phillips, Psychoanalyst, London\nElizabeth 
 Povinelli, Columbia University, Anthropology\nJasbir Puar, Rutgers 
 University, Women's Studies\nJuana Rodriguez, U. C. Berkeley, Gender and 
 Women's Studies\nDarieck Scott, U.C. Berkeley, African American 
 Studies\nKaja Silverman, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Film Studies\nLinda 
 Williams, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Film Studies\nand special affiliated 
 event with filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell.\n\n\nQueer Bonds is a three-day 
 symposium at the University of California,\nBerkeley,\ndedicated to 
 exploring the intersections between sexuality and\nsociability. While\nits 
 genealogies are multiple, the field of queer studies has been shaped\nby 
 two\npowerful trajectories: on the one hand, an attempt to account for 
 the\ncreative forms\nof social and sexual bonding that have existed around, 
 outside of, or in the\ninterstices of "normal" sociality; on the other, an 
 insistence on\nqueerness as a\nforce of subversion, refusal, and antipathy 
 towards the social. How do\nconditions in\nour world today make it 
 imperative that queer theory comprehend both the\nadhesive\nand corrosive 
 dimensions of our queer bonds?\n\n\nThe work we are canvassing asks in 
 different ways how we can theorize\nsociability\nand relationality without 
 either unilaterally embracing the positive\nexistence of a\nqueer social 
 bond or insisting on its categorical refusal. Queer bonds\nmust 
 engage\nconnections that span both moments of radical impersonality and of 
 the\nall-too-personal. We invoke "bonds" in their multiple senses as 
 deliberately\nredolent of the identity movements of the 1970s that provided 
 much of the\nenergy\nthat served to define our field both academically and 
 politically —\nalongside the\ndenomination "queer" which suggests the 
 enduring impact of the theories of\nsubversion, resignification, and 
 appropriation we associate with the art\nand theory\nof the 1980s and 
 1990s. We thus invite our speakers to pay heed to the rich\ntraditions of 
 queer culture, politics, and thought which have preceded our\nown, even\nas 
 they reinvent them for the conditions of our world today.\n\n\nFor a full 
 conference description and schedule details, go 
 to\nwww.queerbonds.com.\n\n\nAll events are free of charge and open to the 
 public. PRE-REGISTRATION IS\nAVAILABLE\nby sending an email to 
 queerbonds@gmail.com, stating name and affiliation.\n\n\nWe encourage you 
 to bring your class to this event! If you would like to\ndo so, or\nhave 
 any other questions, please contact conference organizers Damon 
 Young\n(damonyoung@berkeley.edu) or Josh Weiner (joshuajweiner@gmail.com) 
 for more\ninformation.\n\n\nPresented by the Center for the Study of Sexual 
 Culture at U.C. Berkeley,\nwith\ngenerous support from: the Doreen B. 
 Townsend Center for the Humanities,\nJohn F.\nHotchkis Chair, Division of 
 Arts & Humanities, Graduate Division, Arts\nResearch\nCenter, Student 
 Opportunity Fund, Maxine Elliot Chair, Film Studies,\nDisability\nStudies, 
 Graduate Assembly, Graduate Film Working Group, Beatrice 
 Bain\nResearch\nGroup, and the Departments of English, Comparative 
 Literature, French,\nRhetoric,\nTheater Dance & Performance Studies, 
 Italian Studies, and Gender &\nWomen's\nStudies.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/08/18569044.php
SUMMARY:QUEER BONDS: A Symposium on Sexuality and Sociability
LOCATION:QUEER BONDS: A Symposium on Sexuality and Sociability\nThursday, Friday, 
 Saturday\nFebruary 19-21, 2009\nBerkeley Art Museum\nU.C. Berkeley\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/08/18569044.php
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