Organized by Calla Chancellor (Women Studies), Jessica Johnson (Anthropology), Jason Morse (English), and Travis Sands (English)

Queer Worlds will critically evaluate the institutionalization of Queer Studies programs at the university level including the latest initiative to begin a Queer Studies undergraduate minor and graduate certificate at the University of Washington. Our ongoing commitment to collectively producing an intellectually rigorous space for interventionist queer and allied scholars to work together has formed and informed our understanding of both the stakes and crisis of the seemingly contradictory task of incorporating Queer Studies into the neoliberal university. Across events, Queer Worlds seeks to nurture discussions about the institutionalization of Queer Studies presently taking place on campus, to bring as many students and faculty as possible into dialogue so as to produce a robust queer intellectual public that transects disciplinary, administrative, and institutional locations, and to develop strategies for promiscuously and infectiously inhabiting newly available institutional spaces.

THE WILL TO INSTITUTIONALITY
Queer Studies and the University

Friday, May 8, 2009
9:30 am - 4:45 pm
Parrington Commons

This symposium explores the
institutionalization of Queer Studies programs at the university level. Sessions will address the consolidation of Queer Studies as an academic discipline, recent initiatives to begin Queer Studies both at the University of Washington and elsewhere, and the larger transformations of gender and sexual politics in neoliberal political economy.

Speakers:

Roderick A. Ferguson (American Studies, University of Minnesota)
Miranda Joseph (Women's Studies, University of Arizona)
Sandra Soto (Women's Studies, University of Arizona)
Dean Spade (Law, Seattle University)

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