Queer Studies Conference 2012
Event Details
| CONFERENCE PROGRAM | |||
| 9:30-10:45 | Addressing the Community Needs of LGBT Youth of Color Organized by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law Moderator: Bianca D. M. Wilson, Senior Scholar of Public Policy, The Williams InstituteLaura E. Durso, Public Policy Fellow, The Williams Institute Project Access: Addressing the Community Needs of Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Male Youth of Color in Los AngelesAngeliki Kastanis, Public Policy Fellow, The Williams Institute The RISE Initiative: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Children & Youth In Foster CareLisa Powell, Attorney at Law and Co-Founder, Black Lesbians United (BLU) LGBT Youth Mental Health Project |
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| 10:45-11:45 | Keynote Address
Sandra K. Soto, University of Arizona |
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| 11:45-1:00 | Queer Indigeneities Unsettling Settler Colonialism Moderator: Mishuana Goeman, UCLAJodi A. Byrd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign We Are All Native Here: Colonial Critique and Its Queer ErrantQwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University Asegi Archive: Cherokee Gender, Sexuality, and Memory Dan Taulapappa McMullin, Claremont Graduate University |
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| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-3:35 | The Other Archive of Desire: Remapping LGBT Histories Moderator: Maylei Blackwell, UCLAKai M. Green, University of Southern California Towards a Black Queer Geography: The Struggle Over the Uses of Erotic in a Time of CrisisAlexis Pauline Gumbs, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Breathe: A Colored Ritual for Queer LAHoracio N. Roque Ramírez, University of California, Santa Barbara Racializing Risk, Sexualizing AIDS: (Gay) Latino San Francisco, 1980s Alice Y. Hom, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy |
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| 3:40-5:15 | Transnational Aesthetics/Erotics Moderator: Uri McMillan, UCLAVanessa Agard-Jones, New York University A Serial Killer in the FamilyChitra Ganesh, Visual Artist Her Head in the Flames?Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Theorizing Translocas and Translatinas: Trans Queer Feminist Thought Roy Pérez, Willamette University |
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| 5:15-6:15 | Keynote AddressJafari Sinclaire Allen, Yale University All the Things We Are Now: A Meditation on Black Queer Genealogies |
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| 6:15 | Reception 306 Royce |
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