The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) awards funding to help Northwestern graduate students travel to present work related to sexuality studies at academic conferences. Applications are considered once each quarter during fall, winter, and spring. For more information, click here.
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Brandon Alston (Sociology)
Global Scholars Academy (Cape Town, South Africa)
“Stop and Sexual Assault?: How Black Men Experience Stop-and-Frisk Encounters as Legally Authorized Sexual Violence”
Ray Buckner (Religious Studies)
Annual Meeting – American Academy of Religion (Denver, CO)
“#TransJoy and the Limits of a Teleology of Transition: Imagining Gender Transition Anew”
Iolanthe Brooks (Sociology)
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA)
“Risk Paradox: The Shifting Management of Prison Sex & Sexuality”
Austin Bryan (Anthropology)
Law and Society Association (San Juan, PR)
“Our Aid: Queer Liberation Through Disease in Uganda”
Miguel Chavez (Sociology)
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA)
“Wrestling with Belonging: Grappling with the Social Construction ofCultural Gender Scripts”
Kate Erskine (Screen Cultures)
Visible Evidence XXIX (Udine, Italy)
Hysteria Nostalgia
Syd Gonzalez (Anthropology)
American Ethnological Society (Princeton, NJ)
“Critical Social Fabulations” (Roundtable)
Malú Machuca Rose (Performance Studies)
Summer Institute in Psychoanalysis & Gender (Paris, France)
“Minoritarian: Queer and Trans of Color Art and Psychoanalysis”
Gervais Marsh (Performance Studies)
American Studies Association Annual Conference (New Orleans, LA)
“You Can’t See Everything: A Meditation on the Intimate Pleasuresof Black Queer Life in Ajamu X’s Portraits”
Michell Miller (Performance Studies)
American Studies Association Annual Conference (New Orleans, LA)
“‘No Body Ever Gonna Hear Us’: Exploring Black Trans* FemmeFuturity and Liberation Through the Sonic Landscape of MoorMother”
Marlon Millner (Religious Studies)
College Language Association (Atlanta, GA)
“In Praise of Rage — Pentecostalism and Black Power”
Ishan Mehendru (Comparative Literary Studies / Asian Languages & Cultures)
50th Annual Conference on South Asia (Madison, WI)
“Reframing Masculinity: Frustrated Desires in Ismat Chughtai’s Short Stories”
Carson Phillips (Sociology)
Law and Society Association (San Juan, PR)
“Domestic Partner Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S. after Obergefell v. Hodges”
Annika Pinch (Media, Technology & Society)
International Communication Association Conference (Toronto, Canada)
“The Subtleties of Self-Presentation: A study of sensitive disclosure among sexual minority adolescents”
Febi Ramadhan (Anthropology)
UCR Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion (Riverside, CA)
“The Impossibility of Queer Possibilities: Heteronormative Exegesis and Islamic Religious Epistemology on Same-Sex Attraction inIndonesia”
Kris Rosentel (Sociology)
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting (Vancouver, BC)
“Beyond “Walking While Trans:” How Biased Sting Operations andSpatial Discrimination Drive Transgender Disparities in Sex Work Arrests”
Jesse Rothbard (Spanish & Portuguese)
Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress (Vancouver, BC)
Mirror Games: The Representation and Reflection of Homosexual Desire in Ahora
Afiya Sajwani (Clinical Psychology)
Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Convention (Chicago, IL)
“Factors Associated with Medical Mistrust Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth”
Andrew Stein (Human Development & Social Policy)
American Political Science Association Annual Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
“‘Straight’ As: Accountability, Abstinence, and (Queer) Absence inU.S. Educational Policy, 1980-2002”
Facundo Suenzo (Media, Technology & Society)
International Congress on Media, Gender & Sexualities (Benasque, Spain)
“Reimagining Sexual Scripts: Technology and Sexuality in the Digital Age”
Enzo Vasquez Toral (Performance Studies)
– American Society for Theatre Research (New Orleans, LA)
“Dzi Androgyny: Dzi Croquettes and Comedic Interiority inCatastrophic Political Times in Brazil”
– Thinking Andean Studies Interdisciplinary Conference (Haverford, PA)
“Embodying Settler (Waste) Colonialism in the Andes through Drag”
– Fiestas Transgresoras LGBT (LGBT Transgressive Fiestas) (La Paz, Bolivia)
“LGBT Andean Folklore and The Politics of Cultural Heritage”
Erique Zhang (Media, Technology & Society)
– National Women’s Studies Association (Minneapolis, MN)
“For the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory”
– Society of Cinema and Media Studies (Denver, CO)
“‘I Don’t Do This for the Misogynistic Male Gaze, I Do It for My Gaze!’: Contextualizing Bimbo Feminism”
Austin Bryan (Anthropology)
4th Biennial African Studies Association of Africa Conference (Cape Town, South Africa)
“Postcolonial Bio/Necro/Cosmopolitics, Queer Ugandan Migrants, and the Affect-Power of Queer Diasporas”
James Gibb (Anthropology)
American Association of Biological Anthropology (Denver, CO)
“Impact of the COVID-19 on the Health and Wellbeing of 2SLGBTQ+ Peoples Living in Toronto: A Biocultural Analysis”
Emma McGorray (Psychology)
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (online)
“Bi+ identity, visibility, and psychological well-being: Difference between bi+ individuals in same-gender vs. different-gender relationships”
Annika Pinch (Media, Technology, and Society)
CSCW (online)
“‘It’s not exactly primnent or direct, but it’s there’: Understanding Strategies for Sensitve Disclosure Online”
Febi Ramadhan (Anthropology)
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD)
“Sexual Categories in the Making: Everyday Practices of Knowledge Production among Anti-LGBT Activists in Indonesia”
Kris Rosentel (Sociology)
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Meeting (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
“Assessing the Effect of LGBTQ Social Acceptance on Sexual Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas”
Enzo Vasquez Toral (Performance Studies)
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) (San Diego, CA)
“Ritual Delay and Performance Ethnography in Queer Fiesta Performance: Decentering View from the (Academic) North”
Ray Buckner (Religious Studies)
UCR Conference on Queer and Transgender Studies (Riverside, CA)
“Flowers Blooming, Gender Becoming: A Trans Buddhist Contemplation on Time, Impermanence, and the Feeling of Gender Transition”
Gervais Marsh (Performance Studies)
Caribbean Studies Association (Kingston, Jamaica)
“Uncertain Intimacies: The Pleasure and Tensions of Abstraction in Leasho Johnson’s Anansi Series”
Aoi Saito (History)
British Association for Japanese Studies (Manchester, UK)
“A Woman on the Move: Mobility and Network of a Metropole-born Prostitute in Japan and Japanese Empire from the 1930s to 1950s”
Karly-Lynne Scott (RTVF)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) (Chicago, IL)
“TSA as Pornographer: X-Ray Imaging and the Policing of Corporeal, Racial, and National Borders”
Addie Shrodes (Learning Sciences)
American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA)
“From ‘Aspiration Zones’ to ‘Meme Venting’: Trans Teens Narrate Humor in Survival-Rich Digital Practice”
“Toward Crip Ways of Narrating Desired Futures”
Erique Zhang (Media, Technology and Society)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) (Chicago, IL)
“Transing Cinema and Media Studies” (roundtable participant)
Kelly Coyne (Radio, Television and Film)
Modern Language Association Annual Conference (online)
“Women as Girls: Making Kinship Legible in Recession-Era Media”
Kris Rosentel (Sociology)
The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) Annual Meeting (online)
“Precarious Work Involvement among Sexual Minority and Transgender Youth of Color who are Unemployed or Underemployed in Chicago”
Addie Shrodes (Learning Sciences)
Literacy Research Association (online)
“‘OOF Same’: Consequential Composing and Felt Relations in LGBTQ+ Participatory Cultures”
Addie Shrodes (Learning Sciences)
American Educational Research Association (online)
“Humor, Learning, and Multimodal Choreographies of Political Possibility on YouTube” and “‘You’re in This Whole New Worls’: Digital Artifacts Mediating Desired Futures for Trans Teens”
Anna Michelson (Sociology)
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (online)
“Contested Category: Multicultural Romance and the Politics of Inclusion”
Emma McGorray (Psychology)
National LGBTQ Health Conference (online)
“The Role of Romantic Relationships and Identity Visibility ni Bi+ People’s Well-Being”
Enzo Vasquez Toral (Performance Studies)
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference (online)
“Performative Brownness”
Rhiannon Auriemma (Political Science)
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
“The Demand for Intersectionality: Intersectional Feminism and American Politics”
Malia Bowers (Political Science)
International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
“Queering the Space Between: Activism and Hashtagged Writing in Latin America”
Malia Bowers (Political Science)
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
“The Space Between: Intersectionality as Respatializing”
Austin Bryan (Anthropology)
African Studies Association Conference (Boston, MA)
“Biopolitics and Uganda’s Perpetually Tabled ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill'”
Ivan Bujan (Performance Studies)
American Studies Association Conference (Honolulu, HI)
“Anti-racist and Anti-transphobic Work of Pleasure: (Re)Construction of a Sexual Subject in the HIV Sector”
Julia Fernandez (Media, Technology, and Society)
The 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (Austin, TX)
“‘I Don’t Want Them to Not Know’: Investigating Decisions to Disclose Transgender Identity on Dating Platforms.”
Natalie Gallagher (Psychology)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (New Orleans, LA)
“Gender Essentialism and Mental Representation of Transgender Groups”
Alexandra Garr-Schultz (Psychology)
Society of Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (New Orleans, LA)
“‘It’s Just a Phase’: Identity Denial Experiences and Consequences for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Individuals”
Eric James (Communication Studies)
National Communication Association Conference (Baltimore, MD)
“The Transphobic Ethics of Gender Identification in Post-Gamergate Competitive Gaming”
Junye Ma (Medical Social Sciences)
Midwestern Psychological Association Conference (Chicago, IL)
“Smartphone Application Use for Relationship Seeking Online among Transgender Adolescents”
Tova Marksenson (Theatre and Drama)
American Society for Theatre Research Conference (Arlington, VA)
“Performing First-wave Feminism: Yiddish Theatre and Feminine Morality in Río de la Plata (1900-1930)”
Mirna Nadia (Sociology)
Oxford Women’s Leadership Symposium (Somerville College, Oxford, England)
“Maintaining the Erotic Pyramid: Victimless Crimes and the Deployment of Sexual Knowledge in Indonesia”
Hollen Reischer (Psychology)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (New Orleans, LA)
“Sexual Narrative Identity in Young and Oldest-Old Adults”
Addie Shrodes (Learning Sciences)
Literacy Research Association Conference (Tampa, FL)
“Transformative Affect: An Exploration of Political Affect in Critical Media Literacy and Collective Identities in LGBTQ+ Response Video Channels”
Benjamin Zender (Performance Studies)
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
“Archiving the Cemetery Lady: Feminized Labor, Feminist Historiography, and Floral Tributes”
Erique Zhang (Media, Technology, and Society)
American Studies Association Conference (Honolulu, HI)
“‘Do not, under any circumstances, imitate cis women’: Transfeminine Vloggers and the Labor of Passing”
Benson Zhou (Communication Studies)
National Communication Association Annual Convention (Baltimore, MD)
“Beyond Tongzhi and Sexual Identities’ Instability in China”
Mike DeVito (Communication Studies)
Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (Honolulu, HI)
“‘More gay’ fits in better”: Intracommunity Power Dynamics and Harms in Online LGBTQ+ Spaces”
Samantha Freeman (Screen Cultures – RTVF)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference 2020 (Denver, CO)
“Beyond the Vast Wasteland: Reconsidering Television’s History and Relationship to Sexual Violence”
Ethan Fukuto (Performance Studies)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) (Chicago, IL)
“Pen15 and the Awkward Angularity of Asian America”
Carlos Gustavo Halaburda (Spanish and Portuguese)
Instituto Internacioanl de Literatura Iberoamericana Desde 1938 (Champagne-Ardenne, France)
“Teratology of the Marimacho: Drag Kings, Monstrous Masculinities and the Press in Porfirian Mexico, 1880-1910”
Marlon Millner (Religious Studies)
Conference on Global Pentecostalism (Basel, Switzerland)
“Live Free — #BlackLivesMatter and #Pentecostalism”
Taylor Rogers (Philosophy)
UCLA/USC Graduate Philosophy Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
“Racism, Resilience, and Affective Resistance”
Addie Shrodes (Learning Sciences)
American Education Research Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
“Digital Queerness: Leveraging Mobile Technologies and Social Media for Practice of Resistance and Reimagination”
Ashley Smith (Screen Cultures)
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Denver, CO)
“Dropping the Mask of Sanity: How Mindhunter (2017- ) Deconstructs the Profiling Procedural”
Benson Zhou (Communication Studies)
The 28th Annual Men and Masculinities Conference of the American Men’s Studies Association (Greeley, CO)
“The Myth of ‘More 0s than 1s’: Masculine Obsession and Anxiety in Chinese Gay Community”
Ivan Bujan (Performance Studies)
American Studies Association Conference (Atlanta, GA)
“Absent Bodies: A Political Gesture in AIDS-related Art, Activism, and Politics”
Michael DeVito (Media, Technology & Society/Communication)
Annual ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (Jersey City, NJ)
“‘Too Gay for Facebook’: Presenting LGBTQ+ Identity Throughout the Personal Social Media Ecosystem”
Julia Fernandez (Communication Studies)
Annual ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (Jersey City, NJ)
“Working with Trans Participants: Challenges for Cis Researchers”
Carlos Gustavo Halaburda (Spanish & Portuguese)
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Vancouver, BC)
“Reproductive Fictions: The Futures of Procreation in Latin American Literary Culture, 1880-1930”
Kevin Hsu (Psychology)
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (Montréal, Quebec)
“Physiological and Social Cognitive Evidence for Racial Preferences in Sexual Attraction Among White Gay and Straight Men”
Eric James (Rhetoric & Public Culture)
National Communication Studies Conference (Salt Lake City, UT)
“Necropolitics of Representation for Queer Black Women in Video Games: An Ontological Critique of the Zombie Dystopia Genre”
Moira Kyweluk (Anthropology)
American Anthropological Association (San Jose, CA)
“The Egg Timer Test: Direct-to-Consumer Fertility Testing in Family Planning”
Whitney Pow (Screen Cultures)
Queerness in Games Conference (Montréal, Quebec)
“Hardware Intimacies: Queer Desire and Coded Input in Sean Wejebe’s The Longest Couch”
Ashley Walker (Media, Technology & Society/Communication)
Annual ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (Jersey City, NJ)
“‘Too Gay for Facebook’: Presenting LGBTQ+ Identity Throughout the Personal Social Media Ecosystem”
Ruby Daily (History)
North American Conference on British Studies (Vancouver, Canada)
“‘Toys For Adults’: The Sexual Politics of 1970s Kink Culture and Alex Comfort’s Joy of Sex”
Ashley Ferrell (Communication Studies, Rhetoric and Public Culture)
2019 Cultural Studies Association (New Orleans, LA)
“ACTing Down: Flat affect and the Aesthetics of Nan Goldin’s P.A.I.N.”
Samantha Freeman (Screen Cultures)
High/Low: Taste, Quality, and Resolution in Film and Media (Berkeley, CA)
“Sexual Violence as a Marker of Quality Television”
Lauren Herold (Radio, Television, and Film)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Seattle, WA)
“Dyke TV: Cable Access and the Production of Willful Lesbian Feminist Television”
Kyle Jozsa (ISGMH)
National LGBTQ Health Conference (Atlanta, GA)
“SGM Adolescent Perceptions of Safety and Trust on Geosocial Networking Platforms”
Moira Kyweluk (Anthropology)
Reproductive Bioethics Conference: Alden March Bioethics Institute (Albany, NY)
“Quantifying Fertility?: The Ethical Issues in Ovarian Reserve Testing”
Sanjana Ramesh (Communication Studies)
International Communication Association Conference (Washington, D.C.)
“Disrupting Ideologies around the Social Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Kardashian Influence”
Wayne Rivera (Sociology)
American Sociology Association 114th Meeting (New York, NY)
“Framing Sympathy Worthiness: Confidants of Sexual Assault Victims”
Addie Shrodes (Learning Sciences)
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (Toronto, CAN)
“Disrupting Ideological Media on YouTube: How Multimodal LGBTQ Response Videos Enact Critical Media Literacies”
Stephen Sullivan (Anthropology)
Society for Applied Anthropology (Portland, OR)
“Lip-Syncing and Voicing Presence: Sounds of Drag as Critiques of Community”
Enzo Vasquez Toral (Performance Studies)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference (Boston, MA)
“Of Peruvian Queer Devotion: From Giuseppe Campuzano to the Virgenes de la Puerta”
Mlondolozi Zondi (Performance Studies)
American Comparative Literature Association (Washington, D.C.)
“Trans and Queer Black Death as Gender’s Trouble”
Dominique Adams-Romena (Sociology)
Association for Black Sociologists (New York, NY)
“Contesting Undesirability: Black Women’s Perceptions and Experience Using Mobile Dating Applications”
Karlia Brown (Sociology)
Association of Black Sociologists Annual Conference (New York, NY)
“Making All Black Lives Matter: A Study on the Experiences of Black Women Activists and the Ways They Navigate Conflict in their Communities”
Ivan Bujan (Performance Studies)
Masculinities: Challenges and Possibilities in Troubling Times (Istanbul, Turkey)
“‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happines’: Homonationalism and Heroic Masculinity in HIV Prevention”
Mian Chen (History)
AAS in Asia (Bangkok, Thailand)
“Recognition, Reproach, Repression: Ren Likui Case in 1947 Tianjin and the Cultural Politics of Homosexual Murder in the Sinophone World”
Yuri Doolan (History)
Gender and Intergenerational Issues of Transbordering ‘Koreans’ (Seoul, South Korea)
“Transpacific Camptowns: Korean Women, U.S. Army Bases, and Military Prostitution in America”
Tova Markenson (Theatre and Drama)
“Migrations” at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
“Performing Feminine Sexuality Across Borders: Jewish Prostitutes in Argentina (1930)”
Mollie McQuillan (Human Development and Social Policy)
American Educational Research Association (Toronto, CAN)
“‘People Are Still Working It Out in Their Minds’: A Mixed-Methods Description of the Policy Landscape for Gender-Expansive Students and Administrative Framing”
Hollen Reischer (Psychology)
Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (Boston, MA)
“Sexual Meaning: What Younger and Older Adults Talk About When They Talk About Sex”
Ashley Walker and Michael DeVito (Media, Technology, and Society)
National LGBTQ+ Health Conference (Atlanta, GA)
“Stigma in Supportive Online Spaces: Special Challenges for Non-monosexual and Non-binary Well-Being”
Benjamin Zender (Performance Studies)
Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (Syracuse, NY)
“Public Pedagogies and Queer Stuff: Enacting Community in a Hoard of Clam Shells, Corset Clips, and Broken Inkwells”
Dominique Adams-Romena (Sociology)
American Sociological Association – Sexualities Preconference (Philadelphia, PA)
“Intimate Candor: Digital Storytelling & Intimacy Among Queer Black Women”
Rhiannon Auriemma (Political Science)
APSA Annual Meeting (Boston, MA)
“The Demand for Intersectionality: Intersectional Feminism and American Politics”
Hannah Badal (Communication Studies)
International Conference on Communication in Healthcare 2018 (Porto, Portugal)
“Fertility Preservation Counseling Information Satisfaction and Needs Among Oncology Patients”
Simran Bhalla (Radio/Television/Film)
Console-ing Passions (Poole, UK)
“A Woman’s Worth: Governing the Family through the Documentary Film in Postcolonial India”
Rashayla Marie Brown (Performance Studies)
Black Portraitures IV (Cambridge, MA)
“Critical Rest: An Investigation of Mental Health and Sexuality in the Artists’ Archive”
Ivan Bujan (Performance Studies)
American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL)
“PrEP4Love: World-making Performances as Pedagogies of Dissent”
V Chaudhry (Anthropology)
American Anthropological Association Conference (San Jose, CA)
“Mobilizing the Margins: Institutionalizing ‘Intersectionality’ in US-Based LGBTQ Organizations”
Andrea Christmas (History)
Dance Studies Association (Valletta, Malta)
“Achilles en travesti on the Napoleonic stage”
Ruby Daily (History)
North American Conference on British Studies (Providence, RI)
“Commerce, Culture, and Kink in the Anglo-World: the ‘Kink Entrepreneur’ as Mediator of Mid-century British Sex Culture”
Maria De Simone (Theatre and Drama)
International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference (Belgrade, Serbia)
“Sophie Tucker: A ‘Yiddishe’ Red Hot Mama”
Cara Dickason (Screen Cultures)
Film and History (Milwaukee, WI)
“A Window on the Home: Watching Women in Early Television Surveillance Narratives”
Cara Dickason (Screen Cultures)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Toronto, Canada)
“Consensual Sexual Selfies: Everyday Exposure in Televised Teen Girls’ Digital Lives”
Kaitlyn Filip (Rhetoric and Public Culture)
Console-ing Passions (Poole, UK)
“Big Reputation: the Peculiar Radical Subculture(s) of Taylor Swift Fandom”
Samantha Freeman (Screen Cultures)
Literature/Film Association Conference 2017: Politics, Ethics, and Adaptation (University of Montana, Missoula)
“White Women Make the Perfect Victims: Adapting Big Little Lies and Erasing Black Women’s Experiences of Gendered Violence”
Julian Glover (African American Studies)
Black Studies Fall Conference: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Black Studies (University of Missouri)
“Customer Service Representatives: Sex Work amongst Black Transgender Women in Chicago’s Ballroom Scene”
Julian Glover (African American Studies)
National Women’s Studies Association (Baltimore, MD)
“Fucking the System: Black Sexual Guerrilla Warfare in the Movement for Black Lives”
Tay Glover (African American Studies)
Black Studies Fall Conference: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Black Studies (University of Missouri)
“Decolonial Gestures: Love and Hip Hop, Black Lesbian Illicit Eroticism, and the Southern Black Ratchet Imagination”
Tay Glover (African American Studies)
National Women’s Studies Association (Baltimore, MD)
“Fucking the System: Black Sexual Guerrilla Warfare in the Movement for Black Lives” and “‘The Profundity of Deep Southern Culture’: An analysis of Queen Sugar and Moonlight”
Carlos Gustavo Halaburda (Spanish & Portuguese)
The Secret Life of Crowds: Gender, Sexuality, and the Masses (Princeton University)
“Fictions of Government: Melodrama, Population and Reproductive Futures in 19th Century Brazil”
Lauren Herold (RTVF)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Toronto, Canada)
“Public Access as a Medium for AIDS Advocacy: a Case Study of Our Time”
Eric James (Rhetoric and Public Cultures)
National Communication Association Conference (Dallas, TX)
“Cloud x Barret: Queer Easter Eggs and their Hierarchies of Play”
Jelena Jelusic (RTVF)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Toronto, Canada)
“Feminine and Feminist Pleasure in Late-Yugoslav Television”
Moira Kyweluk (Anthropology)
American Association of Physical Anthropologists (Austin, TX)
“Freezing for the Future: Costs, Culture, and Fertility Preservation Decisions in Trans Youth”
Moira Kyweluk (Anthropology)
Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meetings (Sydney, Australia)
“The Egg Timer Test: Direct-to-Consumer Fertility Testing in the Age of Elective Egg Freezing”
Alyssa Lynne (Sociology)
International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology (Toronto, Canada)
“Negotiation and Medicalization of Transgender Identities at a Thai NGO”
Jonathan Magat (Performance Studies)
Queering Care and Cure Conference (University of California, Davis, CA)
“‘Mourning Sickness’: Vital Extensions of Lost Time with Kia LaBeija’s 24”
Maite Marciano (Comparative Literary Studies)
MLA (Chicago, IL)
“Virginie Despente’s Baise-Moi’ Work Ethics”
C. Tova Markenson (Theatre and Drama)
Latin American Jewish Studies Association Fifth Regional Research Conference (Columbia University)
“‘Disinfect the Yiddish Theatres’: Transforming Jewish Prostitution into a Public Health Concern”
Gervais Marsh (Performance Studies)
TRANS(forming) Queer D.C Queer Studies Symposium (University of Maryland)
“Big Up Di ‘Appy Corna Family: Engaging Keith ‘Shebada’ Ramsey’s Happy Corner as a Site of Resistance for Non-Normative Black Jamaican Subjects”
Mollie McQuillan (Human Development and Social Policy)
Society for Research on Adolescence (Minneapolis, MN)
“State Leadership in LGBTQ-Inclusive Bullying Policies: Changes in Bullying Policies for Gender-Expansive Students”
Bahram Naderil (Anthropology)
Precarity/Promises (Stanford University)
“Pious Prostitute: Negotiating Religiosity within Indonesian Sex Work Economy”
Lital Pascar (Rhetoric and Public Culture)
The Rhetoric Society of America’s Biennial convention (Minneapolis, MN)
“‘Opening Up’ And Staying Inside: the figuration of the ‘good non-monogamous relationship'”
Kenneth Pass (Sociology)
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference (Atlanta, Georgia)
“Framing Institutions, Framing Narratives: Gender, Race, and the Fight Against HIV Criminalization”
Christopher Petsko (Psychology)
Person Memory 2017 (Ashlan, MA)
“Sexual Orientation Perception Modifies Racial Stereotyping”
Jennifer Porter-Lupu (Anthropology)
Society for American Archaeology (Washington, DC)
“Performing a Queer Aesthetic in Early 20th Century Washington: Preliminary Findings from the Halcyon House Site”
Sanjana Ramesh (Communication Studies)
International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (Porto, Portugal)
“Exploring Decision-Making about Fertility Preservation: Retrospective Reflections on Cancer Patients and Survivors”
Zorimar Rivera Montes (Spanish & Portuguese)
American Comparative Literature Association (UCLA)
“The performance of ethnic identity in Justin Torres’ ‘We the Animals'”
Stephen Sullivan (Anthropology)
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Washington, DC)
“The High Line Park: Tracing a queer past” and “(Re)claiming Queerness in the City: Representation through Time and Space”
Stefan Vogler (Sociology)
Society for Social Studies of Science (Boston, MA)
“Technology, Expertise, and the Determination of Sexuality in Two Areas of Law”
Benjamin Zender (Performance Studies)
Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America (Minneapolis, MN)
“Researchers, Activists, and Archivists: A Roundtable Discussion on Queer Archives”
“Queer Trans Culture and Invention Beyond Visibility: Experiencing Cassils”
Benson Zhou (Communication Studies)
Cultural Studies Association Conference (Pittsburgh, PA)
“From Danlan to Blued and Bluedbaby: Queer Politics and Pink Economy in China”
Brandon Alston (Sociology)
Options without Walls Doctoral Symposium (Philadelphia, PA)
“Hypermasculinized: Black Masculinities as Exaggerations and Distortions”
Ivan Bujan (Performance Studies)
The Sexuality Studies Association Annual Meeting (Ryerson University)
“Politics of PrEP: Race, Gender, and Sexuality”
Ruby Ray Daily (History)
Rethinking Modern British Studies Conference (Birmingham, England)
“Kinsey and the ‘Anglo-World’: Transnational Modes of Fantasy, Community, Sexual Identity, and Sexology in Twentieth Century British Diasporas”
Cara Dickason (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Console-ing Passions (Greenville, NC)
“Watching Women: Surveillance and Early Television Spectatorship”
Meaghan M. Fritz (English)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
“Seafaring Wives and Widows: Crossings of Citizenship in American Women’s Literature”
Kevin Hsu (Psychology)
Association for Psychological Science (Boston, MA)
“Physiological and Social Cognitive Evidence for Racial Preferences in Sexual Attraction Among Gay Men”
Raevin Jimenez (History)
African Studies Association (Washington, DC)
“Social Animal, Political Beast: Pre-colonial political economic concepts of cattle-keeping among Nguni-speakers of South Africa”
Kyle Kaplan (Musicology/ GSS)
Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Vancouver, BC)
“Interracial Sexual Scripts and the Soundtracks of Peter De Rome’s Erotic Films”
Moira Kyweluk (Anthropology/ Public Health)
American Anthropological Association Meeting (Washington, DC)
“Freezing for the Future: Culturally Mediated Fertility Preservation Decisions in Trans Youth”
Rae Langes (Performance Studies)
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference (Baltimore, MD)
“Cuir Purgatory: Brujería Aesthetics as Resistance to Homophobia in Felipe Orsonio’s Inferno Variete”
Ryan Lei (Psychology)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (San Antonio, TX)
“Under one collective banner: The role of racial majority and minority LGBT member’s identity importance on collective action”
Christina LoTempio (Political Science)
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference (Baltimore, MD)
“The Corporatization of Feminism: Rereading Arendt, Adorno, and Feminist Materialism”
Jonathan Magat (Performance Studies)
Association for Asian American Studies Conference (Portland, OR)
“‘Toward Something Deeper and Stranger’: Contours of Care in Jenifer Wofford’s Nurse Drawings”
Mollie McQuillan (Human Development and Social Policy)
National LGBTQ Health Conference (Chicago, IL)
“Educators in Training: An evaluation of trainings to promote gender inclusive schools”
Anna Michelson (Sociology)
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference (St. Louis, MO)
“Embracing the Erotic: Negotiating Multiple Boundaries of Sexuality and New Media in Romance Genre Fiction”
EP Nelsen (Social Psychology)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (San Antonio, TX)
“Having It All: An Examination of Contemporary Manifestations of Feminine Honor and the ‘Superwoman’ Expectation”
Todd Nordgren (English)
International Conference on Virginia Woolf (Reading, United Kingdom)
“Hogarth’s Queer Connections: Comparing William Plomer and Virginia Woolf’s Imperial Romances”
Patricia Nguyen (Performance Studies)
Engaging with Vietnam: An Interdiscplinary Dialogue Conference (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
“memory vs. memory: Sexual Dissidence and Guerilla Warfare During Socialist Revolution in Vietnam”
Lital Pascar (Rhetoric and Public Culture)
Console-ing Passions (Greenville, NC)
“Polyamory or ‘Permission to Cheat’? Discussing Consensual Non-Monogamy, Gender, and Race in Online Spaces”
Kenneth Pass (Sociology)
Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (Mexico City, Mexico)
“Control to Treat: An Exploration of Black Sexual Criminality, Sickness, and HIV Criminal Law Since the AIDS Epidemic”
Christopher Petsko (Social Psychology)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (San Antonio, TX)
“Socioeconomic (and racial) perceptions are biased by perceptions of sexual orientation”
Whitney Pow (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Queerness in Games Conference (University of Southern California)
“‘I’m sure your woman-arms will be able to lift it’: Queering affect, interface and phenomenologies of privilege in Anna Anthropy’s Realistic Female First-Person Shooter”
Whitney Pow (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Queer Places, Practices, and Lives Conference (The Ohio State University)
“’I don’t want to go. I know what’s going to happen if I do’: Queering trauma, memory, and domestic space in the video game Ten Seconds in Hell”
Shoniqua Roach (Performance Studies)
National Women’s Studies Association Conference (Montreal, Quebec)
“The Other Black (W)hole: Theorizing from the Pussy”
Shoniqua Roach (Performance Studies)
Performance Studies International (Hamburg, Germany)
“Black Sex in the Quiet”
Adam Safron (Psychology)
International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (Atlanta, GA)
“What is orgasm? A model of sexual trance and climax via rhythmic entrainment”
Hannah Spaulding (RTVF)
International Communication Association (San Diego, CA)
“Investigating ‘The Telephone of Tomorrow’: The Histories and Fictions of the Picturephone”
Sara Thomas (Human Development and Social Policy)
American Sociological Association (Montreal, Canada)
“Young Women’s Reported Dilemmas with Nude Photographs”
Cintia Vezzani (Spanish & Portuguese)
Incomplete: The Unsaid and the Undone (Princeton University)
“Nested secrets: the voice of the adulteress in O Marido da Adultera”
Cintia Vezzani (Spanish & Portuguese)
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
“Two paths to ruin: sexual transgression and financial bankruptcy in A Falência”
Stefan Vogler (Sociology)
Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (Mexico City, Mexico)
“Actuarial Risk Assessment and the Legal Construction of the Sexually Violent Predator”
Stefan Vogler (Sociology)
American Sociological Association Annual Conference (Montreal, Canada)
“How Law Knows Sexuality”
James Wages (Social Psychology)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention (San Antonio, TX)
“The Daredevil Effect: Black Hypermasculine Associations Bias Risk Perceptions”
Benson Zhou (Communication Studies)
Queer Asia Annual Conference (University of London)
“Chinese Queer Masculinities: Discrete Desiring Subjects and ‘Improper’ Desire in Call Me Maybe”
Mlondolozi Zondi (Performance Studies)
Eighteen Hundred and More: Mourning the needy dead in the chaos of protest (Princeton University)
“Capture and the Interminable Injury: Sex and Death in Zanele Muholi’s ‘Mo(u)rning'”
Savina Balasubramanian (Sociology)
4S/EASST Annual Conference (Barcelona, Spain)
“Motivating Men: Communication Science, Heterosexual Masculinity, and the Politics of Population Control in Postcolonial India, c. 1960-1976”
Robin Bartram (Sociology)
Social Science History Association (Baltimore, MD)
“Uncertain Sexualities and Unusual Women: Museum Depictions of Jane Addams and Emily Dickinson”
Ivan Bujan (Performance Studies)
Doing the Body in the 21st Century (University of Pittsburgh)
“Meds’r’Us: Vital Materiality taking over”
Ivan Bujan (Performance Studies)
Xº (10th) Encuentro, eX-céntrico: dissidence, sovereignties (Santiago, Chile)
“Blue Is, Blue Does”
Casey Caldwell (English)
Modern Language Association (Austin, TX)
“The Funny Thing about Syphilis: The Sexually Economy of a Jest in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night”
V Chaudry (Anthropology)
Trans* Studies: An International Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality (University of Arizona)
“‘Underfunded groups within already underfunded groups:’ Transgender Activism, Funding Politics, and the Role of Political Economy in Trans* Studies”
Anya Degenshein (Sociology)
American Sociological Association Annual Conference (Seattle, WA)
“The Salience of Sexuality: Social Meaning-Making and Researcher-Informant Relations in the Field”
Eddie Gamboa (Performance Studies)
National Communication Association National Conference (Las Vegas, NV)
“Not with a Whimper, but with a Bang: Queer Anti-Relationality and the Politics of
Annhiliation” & “Choreographing Politics: The Law and Paul Morris’ Seductive Pornography”
Claudia Garcia-Rojas (African American Studies)
Black Women, Womanism, and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe (Edinburgh, Scotland)
“(Un)Disciplined Destinies: Women of Color Feminism as a Disruptive to White Affect Studies”
Claudia Garcia-Rojas (African American Studies)
Allied Media Conference (Detroit, MI)
“Intersectional Justice in Media Narratives About Women of Color”
Alexandra Garr-Schultz (Psychology)
Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention (Chicago, IL)
“Identity Feedback among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Individuals: Differences by Sexual Orientation and Audience”
Julian Glover (African American Studies)
Thinking Gender (University of California Los Angeles)
“Ain’t I a Woman?: The representation of black transgender women in media”
S. Tay Glover (African American Studies)
Association for the Worldwide Study of the African Diaspora Biennial Conference (College of Charleston)
“Black. Southern. Queer. Woman. : Temporal, Spatial, Visual, Ideological Liberation” to be presented on a panel entitled “Black Feminisms, Black Queerness: Diasporic Perspectives”
Leigh Goldstein (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Society of Cinema and Media Studies (Atlanta, GA)
“‘Everybody’s gonna be, like, “caramel” and “queer”‘: Post-gentrification Discourse and the Millennial Apartment Plot”
Roy Gomez Cruz (Performance Studies)
Xº (10th) Encuentro, eX-céntrico: dissidence, sovereignties (Santiago, Chile)
“Body excess: hand-to-hand, eroticism and the acrobatic construction of homosexuality in circus performance”
Beth Hartman (Anthropology)
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (Austin, TX)
“’If you have no music, what do you have?’ Sonic Strategies in Midwestern US Gentlemen’s Clubs”
Kevin Hsu (Psychology)
International Academy of Sex Research (Malmö, Sweden)
“‘They’re Just Not My Type’: Predicting Racial Preferences in Sexual Attraction”
Lisa Hurwitz (Media, Technology, and Society)
International Communications Association Conference (Fukuoka, Japan)
“Learning about Sexual Health Online and In-School in Early Adolescence: Gender and Racial-Ethnic Differences”
Ryan Lei (Psychology)
Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention (Chicago, IL)
“Implicit Associations Between Race and Sexual Orientation Categories”
Angela Leone (Communication Studies/ Rhetoric and Public Culture)
Modern Language Association Conference (Austin, TX)
“Los Dos Caballeros: Split Personae of White Machismo and ‘Familia’ Masculinity in Modern US Performances of Cowboy Atheticism”
Scott Leydon (Performance Studies)
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting (University of Hawai’i)
“Decolonizing violence, sex, and time in the Canadian Arctic: Tanya Tagaq’s queer punk performance aesthetic”
Erik Lovell (Sociology)
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA)
“Queering Mormonism and Mormonizing Sexuality: The Intersectionality and Hybridity of Conflicting Identities”
Leigh Meredith (Rhetoric and Public Culture)
Rhetoric Society of America Conference (Atlanta, GA)
“Intimate Epistemologies: News Rhetorics of the Digital Persona”
Megan Miskiewicz (Liberal Studies)
Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns: Film and History Conference (Madison, WI)
“Who to Marry, and When? Marriage Timing and Economics in Romantic Comedy Film, 1936 – 1941”
Jaimie Morse (Sociology)
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA)
“Documenting Mass Rape: Seeking Legal Redress through Medical Routines in Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Emergencies”
Patricia Nguyen (Performance Studies)
Xº (10th) Encuentro, eX-céntrico: dissidence, sovereignties (Santiago, Chile)
“Drag On: Meditations on the Abject, Labor, and Gender in Postwar Development in Vietnam”
Tyrone Palmer (African American Studies)
Black/Queer Ontologies Conference (Princeton, NJ)
“‘A Liquid Grave’: Theorizing Black Liquidity and Social Liquidation”
Lital Pascar (Rhetoric and Public Culture)
Rhetoric Society of America Conference (Atlanta, GA)
“Polyamory and the Phantasy of ‘Improved’ Intimacy”
Christopher Petsko (Psychology)
Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention (Chicago, IL)
“Gayness modifies ‘Blackness’ in the Mind’s Eye”
Brittnay Proctor (African American Studies)
National Women Studies Association Conference (Milwaukee, WI)
“‘Shout It Out:’ Black Women’s Gender Affectability and the Sonic Futurity of Black Feminist
Theory”
Shoniqua Roach (Performance Studies / Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Association for Theater in Higher Education Annual Conference (Chicago, IL)
“Black Pussy Power: Pam Grier’s Embodied Critiques of Neoliberalism in Blaxploitation Films”
Sarah Roth (English)
Arts and the Health Humanities: Intersections, Inquiry, Innovations (Cleveland, OH)
“The Pregnancy Paradox”
Karly-Lynne Scott (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Atlanta, GA)
“Her Sexual Skeleton: Stillness and Death in X-ray Pornography”
Theodore Semon (Psychology)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference (San Diego, CA)
“Bisexual Phenomena Among Gay-Identified Men
Ashley Smith (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Atlanta, GA)
“Queering Whiteness: 1970s Hicksploitation Cinema and the Horror of the White Underclass”
Kemi Adeyemi (Performance Studies)
American Studies Association Annual Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
“Practice & Pleasure: Engaging black queer women at the edges of the dance floor ”
Colin Fitzpatrick (Technology and Social Behavior)
Mobile Human Computer Interaction (Toronto, Canada)
“Identity, Identification and Identifiability: The Language of Self-Presentation on a Location-Based Mobile Dating App”
Leigh Goldstein (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Society of Cinema and Media Studies (Montreal, Canada)
“Something Else Besides a Lesbian: Compression, Likeness and Female Friendship in Frances Ha”
Lisa Hurwitz (Media, Technology, and Society)
Society for Research on Child Development (Philadelphia, PA)
“‘When You’re a Baby, You Don’t Have Purity’: Undertsanding of Human Reproduction in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence”
Rae Langes (Performance Studies)
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Montreal, Canada)
“The Limits of Representation: Sex, Race, and Transgender Identity in Divas from the Underground”
Marie Lapierriere (Sociology/ Gender & Sexuality Studies)
European Conference on Politics and Gender (Uppsala University, Sweden)
“Intersectionality and Violence Against Women: Narratives and Claims in the Chicago Anti-Violence Movement”
Mollie McQuillan (Human Development and Social Policy)
Association for Public Policy and Management Research Conference (Albuquerque, NM)
“Educational Attainment and Sexual Orientation in Adolescent and Young Adult Males”
Jaimie Morse (Sociology)
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA)
“Documenting Mass Rape: The Emergence and Implications of Medical Evidence Collection Techniques in Settings of Armed Conflict and Mass Violence”
Karly-Lynne Scott (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
World Picture/ ICI Berlin Conference (Berlin, Germany)
“Cyberos; or, Orgasms without Bodies: Fantasies of Disembodied Sex in Science Fiction”
Theodore Semon (Psychology)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Sexuality Pre-Conference (Long Beach, CA)
“Dimensions of Male Asexuality: Sexual Interests, Behaviors, and Arousal Patterns”
Alexander Thimons (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference (Montreal, CA)
“Just for Fun: Queer Sociability, Labor, and ‘What’s My Line?'”
Mlondolozi Zondi (Performance Studies)
Theatre and Performance Conference (Preston, United Kingdom)
“No Rainbow for the Rotten Conference: Contemporary Dance as a Form of Black Queer Activism in South Africa”
Cecilio Cooper (African American Studies)
Black Sexual Economies: Conference on Transforming Black Sex (Washington University)
“Gender and Its Voids: Impaired Black Capacity for Gender Differentiation”
Maureen Craig (Psychology)
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Austin, TX)
“Close Encounters with Disadvantage: How Personally-Experienced Discrimination Influences Intra-Minority Attitudes Toward Sexual Minorities”
Raff Donelson (Philosophy/ Law)
Social Equality Conference (Cape Town, South Africa)
“Rational Hate”
Clare Forstie (Sociology/ Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism (Atlanta, GA)
“Conspicuous Absences: Urban Spaces, Virtual Spaces, and Patterns of Gendered Invisibility”
Beth Hartman (Anthropology)
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL)
“Neoliberalized Stripping in the US: Moral Panic or Moral Praise?”
Kevin Hsu (Psychology)
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (San Diego, CA)
“Sexual Arousal Patterns of Men with Sexual Interest in Transsexuals”
Kareem Khubchandani (Performance Studies/ Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Asian American Studies Conference (San Francisco, CA)
“‘Jai Ho! Bitches’: Staging Bollywood in Multicultural Gay Bars”
Jeff Kosbie (Sociology/ Law)
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
“Are LGBT Rights Civil Rights? Tracing the Contested Origins of the ACLU’s LGBT Project”
Eli Krell (Performance Studies)
Popular Culture Association Conference (Chicago, IL)
“Kinking the Imaginary: Mermaids, Unicorns, and Trans* Embodiment”
Kathryn Macapagal (Health Services and Outcomes Research)
International Academy of Sex Research Annual Meeting (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
“To Have Sex or not to Have Sex? Sexual Decision Making Among Sexually Experienced and Inexperienced Gay and Bisexual Adolescent Men in the United States”
Sarah Mann-O’Donnell (Comparative Literary Studies/ French/ Gender & Sexuality Studies)
INSEP: The Value(s) of Sexual Diversity (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
“Sacher-Masoch’s Convalescence: A Masochistic Time for Nietzsche’s Health-to-Come”
Andrew Owens (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Console-ing Passions (University of Missouri)
“‘If you look in the face of evil, evil’s gonna look right back at you’: Queering Supernatural Sexualities on F/X’s American Horror Story”
Karly Lynne-Scott (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference (Seattle, WA)
“‘The Voice of Shouts and Moans’: Haptic Aurality, Resonance, and Affect in Pornography”
Kantara Souffrant (Performance Studies)
Haitian Studies Association Conference (Port-Au-Prince, Haiti)
“No One Thinks of Love When They Think of Haiti: Dreaming of Queer Love and Dyaspora”
Luke Stadel (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Sex, Media, Reception: New Approaches (University of Michigan—Ann Arbor)
“Bedroom TV: ‘Cableporn’ and the Shifting Site of American Television Reception, 1981-1985”
Stefan Vogler (Sociology)
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
“Legally Queer: Sexuality and Citizenship in LGBTQ Asylum Claims”
Hannah Wohl (Sociology)
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD)
“How to be Sexual Without being Creepy: Tacit Intelligence in a Sensual Figure Drawing Session”
Justin Zullo (Performance Studies )
Gender, Sexuality, and Hip-Hop Conference (Tulane University)
“Lending Sugar, Stylin’ Out: Queer Pimp Aesthetics and Hip Hop Dandyism”
Andrew Brown (Performance Studies/ Gender & Sexuality Studies)
The International Federation of Theatre Research (Barcelona, Spain)
“Queering Refuge: Mapping Sexuality in Performance with LGBTI Refugees in South Africa”
Clare Forstie (Sociology/ Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (Boston, MA)
“‘Homonormativity’: Uses and Limitations for Sociological Theory”
Kareem Khubchandani (Performance Studies/ Gender & Sexuality Studies)
American Theatre in Higher Education (Orlando, FL)
“Dancing Against the Law: Critical Moves in Bangalore’s Queer Nightlife”
Jeff Kosbie (Sociology/ Law)
New England Political Science Association Conference (Portland, ME)
“Legal Mediation of Cultural, Medical, and Legal Claims to Transgender Identities”
Eli Krell (Performance Studies)
Liminality and Borderlands (Austin, TX)
“Singing Eros: Affect and Transvocal Exchange in Lucas Silveira’s Music”
Andrew Owens (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
The Feminist Porn Conference (Toronto, Canada)
“Chicks, Dicks, and Contradictions: Reading Porn for Women in Playgirl”
Liz Przybylski (Music Studies)
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting (Denver, CO)
“Raising Musical Voices Against Gender-Based Violence in Indigenous Communities”
Raashi Rastogi (English)
Rocky Mountain Renaissance and Medieval Association Annual Conference (Denver, CO)
“When Oedipus is Not Oedipal: Translating Oedipus in Renaissance England”
Allen Rosenthal (Psychology)
International Academy of Sexuality Research (Chicago, IL)
“Toward a Taxonomy of Male Bisexuality: Three Types of Bisexual Men”
Teri Chettiar (History)
Joint Conference of Cheiron and the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (Montreal, Canada)
“Post-WWII Social Reconstruction and the Birth of Sex and Marriage Therapy in Britain: Forging Democratic Community through Citizens’ Emotional Fulfillment”
Connor Doak (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Queer People VI. Art and Lives: Studies in the History and Representation of Sexualities (University of Cambridge)
“Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Queer Legacy: Ginsberg, O’Hara, Miller, Mogutin”
Beth Hartman (Anthropology)
International Communications Association Conference (Phoenix, AZ)
“Moving Beyond Panic and Praise: Studying Commodified Sex in the Neoliberal U.S.”
Kareem Khubchandani (Performance Studies)
Love, Sex, Desire and the (Post)colonial (University of London)
“Circular Logic: Queer of Color Dance in Gay Club Spaces”
Jeffrey Kosbie (Sociology/ Law)
Law and Society Association Annual Conference (Honolulu, HI)
“Constructing HIV as an LGBT Issue: Discourses of Sexuality”
Elias Krell (Performance Studies)
2nd Global Conference: Femininities and Masculinities (Prague, Czech Republic)
“‘It’s not that Black and White’: Polyvocality in the Music of Kelly Moe”
Andrew Owens (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Console-ing Passions (Suffolk University)
“Chicks, Dicks, and Contradictions: The Cultural Work of Pornography in Playgirl”
Courtney Patterson (African American Studies)
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference (Boston, MA)
“Is It Just Baby F(Ph)at?: A Black Feminist Exploration of Body Size and Sexuality of Fat Black Female Teenagers”
Luke Stadel (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Boston, MA)
“Cable, Pornography, and the Reinvention of Television, 1982-1989”
Anna Terwiel (Political Science)
Seminar on “Queer Technics” (Cornell University)
Tera Agyepong (African American Studies)
Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Biennial Conference (Columbia University)
“The ‘Most Vicious and Depraved’: The Construction of African American Girls at the Illinois State Industrial School for Girls & their Exclusion from the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1986-1935
Andrew Brown (Performance Studies)
Performance Studies International: Technology, Memory, Experience (Utrecht, Netherlands)
“The Accidental Archive and the Making of Queer Memory Scapes”
Elizabeth Corzo-Duchardt (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference (San Antonio, TX)
“Defining Lesbian Visuality through Debates about Personal Best”
Connor Doak (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Association of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
“’Vse stalo muzhskim’ [All has become masculine]?: The Masculine Body in Russian Futurism”
Clare Forstie (Sociology)
American Sociological Association Meeting (Las Vegas, NV)
Third Genders in Third Places at Sisters, a Local Lesbian Bar
Leigh Goldstein (RTVF/ Screen Cultures)
Screen Conference (Glasgow, Scotland)
“When the ‘Women’s Film’ Came to the Small Screen: Gender, Genre and Masochism in the 1950s”
Beth Hartman (Music Studies/ Anthropology)
Music in Everyday Life Conference (Bowling Green State University)
“Shimmy, Walk, Bump, and Grind: The Burlesque Revival in Chicago”
Kareem Khubchandani (Performance Studies)
Lavender Languages & Linguistics Conference (Washington, DC)
“A Faggo’ in Central Park: A Short Story Performance”
Jeffrey Kosbie (Sociology/ Law)
Thinking Gender (UCLA)
“Understanding Gender Through Sex Discrimination Law”
Jeffrey Kosbie (Sociology/ Law)
Williams Institute (UCLA)
“Gender Identity Expression as Free Speech”
Liz Przybylski (Music Studies)
Music, Gender, and Globalization (Cornell College)
“Environmentalism and the Female Body in Hip-Hop”
Allen Rosenthal (Psychology)
International Academy of Sex Research (UCLA)
“Revisiting Straight, Gay, or Lying: The Arousal Patterns of Bisexual Men”
Kantara Souffrant (Performance Studies)
A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism (University of York)
“Performing the Haitian Dyasporic Imaginary: Towards a Feminist Futurity”
David Sylva (Psychology)
International Academy of Sex Research (UCLA)
“fMRI and Sexual Orientation”
Rhaisa Williams (Performance Studies)
International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference (Madrid, Spain)
“And Your Sidewalks Will Lead Straight to Me: How Black Queer Youth Stake Claim to Chicago’s Boystown”