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Queer + Public + Performance
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Edmond Chang (English) Project Overview
Queer + Public + Performance is a working group that engages the intersection of queer scholarship, performance, art, and technologies within the university and beyond. The group intends to engage cross-disciplinary, crossplatform public cultural and intellectual work. This year will focus specifically on queer publics and counterpublics to explore the practices, projects, and lived experiences situated on the peripheries of official publics. We hope to emphasize the co-constitutive and at times antagonistic intersections between “sex,” “gender,” “race,” “class,” and “nation” as we think about how keywords such as “sexuality,” “intimacy,” “queer theory and performance,” and “publicity” are constituted and complicated by changes (both conservative and transgressive) in regional and global political, economic, academic, and cultural interchanges. Events
Inaugural Meeting At this inaugural meeting, the group will open the floor to introductions of attendees and their work. Also on the agenda is charting the course for the series of quarterly reading groups and tea times to be held throughout the year, as well as beginning to answer one of the questions that speaks to the very existence of a queer research collective such as this: To what extent and with what investments is a queer public formed in and through queer performance and the performance of queerness?
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