WGSS Speaker Series 2019/20
Transnationalizing Queer Studies
WGSS Lecture Series, 2019/20
Sponsored by: WGSS; The Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; LGBTS
The WGSS lecture series for 2019/20 asks: What is at stake when we seek to transnationalize queer studies, a field with a strong US/Western European genealogy that has by now traveled far and wide? Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars who focus on a variety of regions (China, India, Brazil, Israel/Palestine), this lecture series will help chart exciting and promising new approaches to queer that decenter the US, yet do not simply replace it with other locations. Instead, this body of work problematizes center/periphery models that often rest on the universal/particular binary. Moving also beyond the binaries of traditional/modern, East/West, authentic/colonized, a transnational approach to queer studies demands that we shift our attention from questions of whether queer is “authentic” and therefore applicable to the “non-West” to analyzing the conditions of possibility for queer to have imagined itself as “indigenous” to US/Europe.
September 26th, 4:00pm
Durba Mitra, Harvard University
February 13th, 4:00pm
Greg Mitchell, Princeton University
February 27th, 4:00pm
Gil Hochberg, Columbia University
March 26th, 4:00pm
Rachel Lee, UCLA
April 9th, 4:00pm
Petrus Liu, Boston University
All events will be held in WLH Room 309.
Sponsored by: The Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; LGBTS; WGSS
