out of place: interrogating silences in queerness /raciality
schedule
Friday the 24th of March
The Great Hall, Nuffield Theatre
9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00- 10:05 Introduction and welcome
10:05-11:30 Keynote Lecture
Jasbir Puar ‘On Terror: Queerness, Secularism, and Affect’
11:30- 11:45 Coffee break
11.45-12.45 Migration, Diaspora and Nationalism
Encarnacion Gutiérrez Rodríguez ‘Diasporic Yearning and a little bit of Freedom – On “Kleine Freiheit” and “Fremde Haut”, melancholia and queer diasporas’
Adi Kuntsman ‘On soldiers, terrorists and immigrants: racism as queer homecoming’
Chair: Jinthana Haritaworn
12.45-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.20 Silenced queernessSalla Tuori ‘Silenced queerness in multicultural women's politics in Finland’
Smadar Lavie ‘Sexual Politics of the Mizrahi Struggle: Preliminary Thoughts’
Chair: Michelle Carnes
2.20-2.25 Break
2.25-3.40 Identities, theories, and Politics
Jinthana Haritaworn ‘Queer Mixed Race? Towards a radical socialisation of ‘ambiguity’
Terri He ‘The cyborg, Mutant and Hybridity: Towards a Technological Mode of “Queer Race”’
Lenny St Jean & Anthony Hemmings ‘..et tu Brute’
Chair: Aaron Tobler
3.40-4.00 Coffee Break
4.00-4.50 Searching for a place: identity, voice and visibility
Carmen Vazquez ‘Voice and Visibility: Looking Up at the Stars’
Ja Eun Huh ‘Searching for a Place: Locating Korean Queer Identities’
Chair: Harjant Gill
4.50-5.00 Break
5.00-6.30 Queerness and whiteness
Liz Neat ‘The Silence of Whiteness’
Thomas Rieske ‘Staging White Beauty’
Christian Klesse ‘Body modification in queer culture – some thoughts on race and transgression’
Amelia Jones ‘Whiteness as Race, Queer as (not only) White’
Chair: Alpesh Patel
6:30-7:30 Drinks and reception at Nuffield Theatre
7:30 Dinner at ‘Spicy Hut’
Saturday the 25th of March
The Great Hall, Nuffield Theatre
9.30-10.45 Representations of queerness/ raciality
Rachel Irwin ‘Ethnicisation and Racialisation of Queerness in Medicine’
Anniruddha Dutta ‘Between ‘Bharat’ and ‘India’: Racialised rifts in discussions on sexuality in urban Indian media’
Miriam Strube ‘Pieces of The Self: Interrogations of Queerness and Raciality in The L Word’
Chair: Christian Klesse
10:45- 11:00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Roundtable: Mapping the queer sphere
Maria Viteri ‘Translating Race and Sexuality in the Latino Queer Diaspora’
Aaron Tobler ‘Visible Margins or Marginal Visibility? Conceptualizations of Positioning with Police Officers’
Michelle Mazullo ‘Mundane Silences: On the Civil Disobedience of Public Officials and Same-Sex Marriage Demographies in the US’
Michelle Carnes ‘Get Your Freak On: Sexuality, Identity and Silence at African-American Lesbian Strip Events in Washington DC’
Chair: Rachel Irwin
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1.15-2.00 SPHERE- performance and workshop
2.00-2.05 Break
2.05-3.20 Placing popular culture: uses of space and identity
Ranjinder Dudrah ‘Traditions of Khel (Play) in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema: The Queer South Asian Bisexual’
Alpesh Patel ‘Queer Desi Public Spaces’
Esperanza Miyake 'Place for the 'other' Others: materialising raciality/queerness through the geo-politics of music in Manchester'
Chair: Smadar Lavie
3:20-3:40 Coffee break
3.40-4.40 EVERYTHING: intersectionality and beyond
Harjant Gill ‘Everything’ (screening and discussion)
Umut Erel, Jinthana Haritaworn, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez and Christian Klesse, ‘Intersectionality or simultaneity?! Conceptualising multiple oppressions’
Chair: Carmen Vazquez
4:40-4:45 Break
4:45-5:45 Open discussion and closure
Exhibits during both days:
Stacy Makishi 'Eat More Spam': Video performance
Elisavet Pakis - poster
Queering East Asia in the UK- poster
Jointly organised by:
Dept of Sociology and Institute for Women's Studies
and supported by Nuffield Theatre and CeMoRe
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