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QUEER BONDS: A Symposium on Sexuality and Sociability | |
Date | Thursday February 19 |
Time | 12:00 PM - 12:00 AM |
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Location Details | |
QUEER BONDS: A Symposium on Sexuality and Sociability Thursday, Friday, Saturday February 19-21, 2009 Berkeley Art Museum U.C. Berkeley |
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Event Type | Conference |
Organizer/Author | |
Jacqueline Asher, U.C. Berkeley, LGBT Studies
Leo Bersani, U. C. Berkeley, French, Emeritus Daniel Boyarin, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Near Eastern Studies Judith Butler, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature Terry Castle, Stanford University, English Melinda Chen, U.C. Berkeley, Gender and Women's Studies Whitney Davis, U.C. Berkeley, History of Art Tim Dean, SUNY Buffalo, English Didier Eribon, Philosopher, Paris Elizabeth Freeman, U.C. Davis, English Teresa de Lauretis, U. C. Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness, Emeritus Carla Freccero, U.C. Santa Cruz, Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness Jonathan M. Hall, U. C. Irvine, Comparative Literature/ Film & Media Studies David M. Halperin, University of Michigan, History and Theory of Sexuality Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania, English Michael Lucey, U.C. Berkeley, French Dana Luciano, Georgetown University, English David Marriott, U.C. Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness Robert McRuer, George Washington University, English Stefania Pandolfo, U.C. Berkeley, Anthropology Adam Phillips, Psychoanalyst, London Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University, Anthropology Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University, Women's Studies Juana Rodriguez, U. C. Berkeley, Gender and Women's Studies Darieck Scott, U.C. Berkeley, African American Studies Kaja Silverman, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Film Studies Linda Williams, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Film Studies and special affiliated event with filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell. Queer Bonds is a three-day symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, dedicated to exploring the intersections between sexuality and sociability. While its genealogies are multiple, the field of queer studies has been shaped by two powerful trajectories: on the one hand, an attempt to account for the creative forms of social and sexual bonding that have existed around, outside of, or in the interstices of "normal" sociality; on the other, an insistence on queerness as a force of subversion, refusal, and antipathy towards the social. How do conditions in our world today make it imperative that queer theory comprehend both the adhesive and corrosive dimensions of our queer bonds? The work we are canvassing asks in different ways how we can theorize sociability and relationality without either unilaterally embracing the positive existence of a queer social bond or insisting on its categorical refusal. Queer bonds must engage connections that span both moments of radical impersonality and of the all-too-personal. We invoke "bonds" in their multiple senses as deliberately redolent of the identity movements of the 1970s that provided much of the energy that served to define our field both academically and politically — alongside the denomination "queer" which suggests the enduring impact of the theories of subversion, resignification, and appropriation we associate with the art and theory of the 1980s and 1990s. We thus invite our speakers to pay heed to the rich traditions of queer culture, politics, and thought which have preceded our own, even as they reinvent them for the conditions of our world today. For a full conference description and schedule details, go to http://www.queerbonds.com. All events are free of charge and open to the public. PRE-REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE by sending an email to queerbonds [at] gmail.com, stating name and affiliation. We encourage you to bring your class to this event! If you would like to do so, or have any other questions, please contact conference organizers Damon Young (damonyoung [at] berkeley.edu) or Josh Weiner (joshuajweiner [at] gmail.com) for more information. Presented by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at U.C. Berkeley, with generous support from: the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, John F. Hotchkis Chair, Division of Arts & Humanities, Graduate Division, Arts Research Center, Student Opportunity Fund, Maxine Elliot Chair, Film Studies, Disability Studies, Graduate Assembly, Graduate Film Working Group, Beatrice Bain Research Group, and the Departments of English, Comparative Literature, French, Rhetoric, Theater Dance & Performance Studies, Italian Studies, and Gender & Women's Studies.
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Added to the calendar on Sunday Feb 8th, 2009 4:33 PM
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