Travis Sands (English)

Calla Chancellor (Women Studies)

Jessica Johnson (Anthropology)

Jason Morse (English)

Co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Department of Women Studies, and the Department of English.

This research cluster investigates the production and deployment of 'sexuality' across spaces, scales, and disciplinary formations, and interrogates the epistemological shifts marked by recent work in queer studies—work increasingly concerned with questions of racialization, the global flow of bodies and culture, and the 'provincialization' of Anglo-U.S. sexual epistemologies.

In developing new critical frameworks that stress the disproportionality of global capital and non-analogous relations between sexual lifeworlds on a global scale, this project investigates how queer public scholarship and cultural production craft new forms of politics and collectivity.

We invite all graduate students who share an interest in queer cultural studies and transnational political economy to join our research cluster.  Those interested should contact Travis Sands (English) with a short bio identifying your departmental affiliation, year in your program, areas of study, and contact information.

Download e-flyer of autumn quarter events (pdf)

All workshops take place from 3:30-5:30 pm.

Then and Now: Mapping Epistemic Shifts in Queer Studies
Thursday, October 11
Communications 226

Queer Studies in the Academy: Disciplinarity and Pedagogy Thursday, November 1
Communications 202

Beyond the Academy: Queer Knowledges, Queer Publics
Thursday, December 6
Communications 226

The Queer Worlds research cluster will host Brian Freeman (Theater, University of California Los Angeles) an award-winning playwright, director, and performance artist, and co-founder of the groundbreaking black queer performance trio, Pomo Afro Homos. Freeman will perform new dramatic work, lecture on the contributions of Pomo Afro Homos to Black and Queer Performance Worlds, and discuss the impact of Freeman's cultural work over the last twenty-five years with Chandan Reddy (English).

Faculty and Student Roundtable: Queer Worlds, Queer Dispositions: Disciplinarity, Pedagogy, and Community
Wednesday, November 14
Communications 226
3:30 pm

Discussants:
Michael Brown (Geography)
Chandan Reddy (English)
Amanda Swarr (Women Studies)
Crispin Thurlow (Communication)
Kate Cummings (English)

Download e-flyer of winter quarter events (pdf)

Regular Workshops
All workshops take place from 3:30-5:30 pm.

Adjudicating Intimacies: Sexuality, Law and the Public Sphere Thursday, January 17 Communications 202

Disturbing Sexuality: Incommensurable Intimacies in a Transnational Frame
Thursday, January 31
Electrical Engineering Building 443

Download e-flyer of spring quarter events (pdf)

Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Anthropology, Columbia University)

"The Obligations of Intimacy"

Friday, April 11, 2008
3:30-5:00 pm
Communications 226
Reception to follow

Graduate student seminar with Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Anthropology, Columbia University)

Friday, April 11, 2008
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Communications 202

José Esteban Muñoz (Performance Studies, New York University)

"After Jack: Queer Virtuosity, Queer Failure"

Friday, May 2, 2008
3:30-5:00 pm
Communications 226

Graduate student seminar with José Esteban Muñoz

Friday, May 2, 2008
10:30 am
Communications 202

Photos for discussion (pdf)

All workshops take place 3:30-5:30 pm in the Electrical Engineering Building room 403.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

"Queer Theories of Race/Racialized Theories of Sex"

Suggested Community Event:
CD Forum and the Ethnic Cultural Center and Theater present:
"Which Way Seattle? Civil Rights Organizations in the 21st Century" Ethnic Cultural Center, 7:00 pm

Thursday, April 10, 2008

"Queer Affects, Global Effects: Elizabeth Povinelli's Critical Archive"

Suggested community event: "Gender Identity in the African American Community"
Langston Hughes Center, 7:00 pm

Thursday, April 24, 2008

"Performing Race Queerly"