Event Program

2007 Queer Studies Graduate Symposium
June 2, 2007

QUEERNESS AND VIOLENCE

  • 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
    Breakfast, coffee, registration
  • 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM
    Opening Address

    • Symposium Co-Chairs Cynthia Degnan (English), Toby Beauchamp (Cultural Studies), and Cathy Hannabach (Cultural Studies)
  • 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
    Legal Echoes of Bodily Violence

    • “Queer Contagion: Racial Sight, Violence and the Gay Panic Defense.” Laura Grappo, Yale University (American Studies)
    • “Productive Violence: How ‘Non-Fiction’ Narratives About Violence Shape Practices.” Laurel Westbrook, University of California, Berkeley (Sociology)
    • Respondent: Juana María Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies. University of California, Davis.
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Fantasy, Resistance, and the Performance of Queer Rage

    • “Nationalist/Heteronormative Violence in China and the Politics of Queer Fantasy: Some Notes on East Palace, West Palace.” Alvin Ka Hin Wong, University of California, San Diego (Literature)
    • “Strategies of Real and Imaginary Violence in Doric Wilson’s The West Street Gang.” Zachary A. Dorsey, University of Texas, Austin (Theater and Dance)
    • Respondent: Cathy Kudlick, Professor of History. University of California, Davis
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
    Disciplining the Queer and U.S. Racial Politics

    • “‘Critically Queer’: Toward a Theory of Homo-Colonialism and Homo-Imperialism in 20th Century U.S. Racial Politics.” Vanita Reddy, University of California, Davis (English), and Victor Mendoza, University of California, Berkeley (English)
    • “Death (Row) on Display: Capital Punishment as Queer Violence in The Execution of Wanda Jean.” Courtney Marshall, University of California, Los Angeles (English)
    • Respondent: Luz Mena, Assistant Professor of Geography, and Women and Gender Studies. University of California, Davis.
  • 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
    Lunch (Provided)
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Keynote Address by Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Rutgers University

    • “In Retrospect: Terrorist Assemblages and Homontionalism in Queer Times”
  • 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM
    Perverting National Borders

    • “Painful Perversities: Shock Therapy and the Psychopathology of Late-Soviet Dissent.” Anastasia Kayiatos, University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
    • “ ‘Ani G’eh Bisrael’: Zionism and the Use of Gay Rights.” Tallie Ben Daniel, University of California, Davis (Cultural Studies)
    • “Infectious Body: State Violence and the Politics of Representation/Visibility in Current China.” Fei Shi, University of California, Davis (Comparative Literature)
    • Respondent: Gayatri Gopinath, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies. University of California, Davis.
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
    Homotopia: Film Screening and Director’s Talk

    • Directors Eric Stanley (University of California, Santa Cruz; History of Consciousness) and Chris Vargas (filmmaker and independent scholar)
  • 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM:
    Closing Remarks

    • Co-chairs Cynthia Degnan, Toby Beauchamp, and Cathy Hannabach