“Stigma: Deviance, Criminality, and Sexualities”
April 20-21, 2017
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KEYNOTE
Thursday, April 20 – 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (followed by reception)
McCormick Foundation Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston
“From ‘Queer Counterpublics’ to Queer Encountering: Counterpublic Health in Digital Times”
Kane Race, University of Sydney
Queer counterpublics have been seen as a significant resource for gay men’s HIV prevention, but this literature tends to characterise digitally-arranged sex as ipso facto privatising. In this talk, I draw on range of empirical examples to demonstrate how digitally-arranged sex frequently exceeds this framing. I argue that a topological (rather than topographical) conception of queer counterpublics might emerge if digital devices are conceived as part of the infrastructure of sexual events.
PANELS
Friday, April 21 – 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (followed by reception)
Chambers Hall (Ruan Conference Center), 600 Foster Street, Evanston
1) DATA & SURVEILLANCE
Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Bathrooms, Borders, and Biometrics” (read by Mitali Thakor, as Prof Beauchamp was not in attendance)
Kelly Gates, University of California, San Diego
“Modulating Desire, Monetizing Porn”
2) LANGUAGE & STIGMATIZED SEXUALITIES
Susan Ehrlich, York University
“‘Well, I saw the picture’: Social Media, Visual Evidence and the ‘Forging’ of Sexualities in the Steubenville Rape Trial”
Robert J. Podesva, Stanford University
“The Sociophonetic Ramifications of Stigmatized Sexualities: The Production and Perception of /s/”
3) VISCERALITY & SENSATION
Che Gossett, Rutgers University
“Abolitionist Entanglement”
Amber Jamilla Musser, Washington University
“Mickalene Thomas and the Black, Queer Female Origin of the Universe”
4) SEXUAL LABOR & EMBODIMENT
Winifred Poster, Washington University
“Activists Tracking Johns Tracking Sex Workers: Multisurveillance in the Online Sex Trafficking Industry”
Gabriel N. Rosenberg, Duke University
“Bad Husband: Interspecies Sexual Assault in the Age of Industrial Meat”
