2015 workshop information

“Remapping the Erotic:
Changing Contours in Studies of Sexualities, Identities, and Social Regulation”

April 23-24, 2015

 

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Keynote Address: Thursday, April 23 at 5:00-6:30 pm, Guild Lounge in Scott Hall (followed by reception)

‘There’s a Disco Ball Between Us’: Black/ Queer Desire and Global Connection

Jafari S Allen, African American Studies, Anthropology, and American Studies, Yale University

Panels and presentations: Friday, April 25, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm, followed by reception, in University Hall 201 (Hagstrum Room)

9:15 am Panel 1: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Regulation

“Punishing Sex: Sex Offenders and the Missing Punitive Turn in Sexuality Studies”
Trevor Hoppe, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California at Irvine

“The Price of Freedom: Moral Economies of Low Wage Women’s Work in Global Anti-Trafficking Rescue”
Elena Shih, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

“‘Designed to Abuse’: Queer Deviance, US Law, and Carceral Sexual Violence”

Eli Vitulli, Adjunct Professor, DePaul University

Comments by Raff Donelson (Philosophy, Northwestern), Beth Hartman (Anthropology, Northwestern), and Anna Terwiel (Political Science, Northwestern)

1:30 pm Panel 2: Queerness and Space

“In the Life and Off the Map: Tracing Black Queer Elsewheres”
Kai M. Green, SPAN Postdoctoral Fellow, African American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University

“Rainbow Nations and Prismatic Interventions: The 1-in-9 Campaigns Versus Johannesburg Pride”
April Sizemore-Barber, Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

“Shocking Pink and on the Streets: Queer Protest Crowds in Sao Paulo”
Joseph Jay Sosa, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago

Comments by Shoniqua Roach (Performance Studies, Northwestern) Andrew Brown (Performance Studies, Northwestern), and Jeff Kosbie (Sociology and Law, Northwestern)

3:45 pm Panel 3: Policing Risky Parts, Practices, and Identities

“The Financialization of Health: Surplus Risk and Sexual Health”
Kirk Fiereck, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sexuality and Queer Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pennsylvania

“‘Woman Slain in Queer Love Brawl:’ African American Women and Same-Sex Violence in the Early Great Migration”
Cookie Woolner, African American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, History, Case Western Reserve University

Comments by Stefan Vogler (Sociology, Northwestern) and Alex Lindgren-Gibson (History, Northwestern)

5:00 pm Reception

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