out of place: interrogating silences in queerness /raciality
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Dr Jasbir Puar, Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University (keynote speaker)
Professor Puar is a core faculty member in the department of Women's & Gender Studies, and a graduate faculty member in the department of Geography at Rutgers. Professor Puar's research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies; queer theory; South Asian cultural studies; and tourism studies. Professor Puar is the author of “Homonormativity and its Others,” in Gender, Place, and Culture (Winter 2005), forthcoming; “Queer Times, Queer Assemblages,” in Social Text 84-85 vol. 23 nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2005), forthcoming; “On Torture: Abu Ghraib,” in Radical History Review (Fall 2005), forthcoming; “The Remaking of a Model Minority: Perverse Projectiles under the Specter of (Counter)Terrorism,” with Amit Rai, in Social Text 80 vol. 22 no. 3 (Fall 2004); "Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots," with Amit Rai, in Social Text 72 vol. 20 no. 3 (Fall 2002); “A Transnational Feminist Critique of Queer Tourism,” in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography vol. 34 no. 5 (November 2002); “Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization,” in GLQ vol. 8 nos. 1-2 (2001); "Global Circuits: Transnational Sexualities in Trinidad," in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 26 no. 4 (Summer 2001); "Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets" in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness edited by Matt Wray et al (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001); amongst other publications in refereed journals and edited books. She has also edited a special issue of GLQ titled, "Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization" vol. 8 nos. 1-2 (2002).
Professor Puar is currently working on a book manuscript on queer biopolitics, race and sexuality, and discourses of counter/terrorism.
Sphere (invited performers)
'Sphere' is a Manchester-based collective of artists (mainly working in experimental theatre) who are in collaboration with The Contact Theatre. Their current project involves women of South Asian decent who identify as LGBT, and through a series of workshops and story-telling sessions, they explore their raciality, sexuality, religion, culture, identity. How do these issues interrelate (or not)? In this conference, they shall share some of this work and discuss their thoughts on this question.
Jointly organised by:
Dept of Sociology and Institute for Women's Studies
and supported by Nuffield Theatre and CeMoRe
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