Free and open to the public
Friday, April 17 begins with quickanddirty V: A Graduate Queer Studies Symposium and will feature papers by students from American, Georgetown, George Washington, and Maryland. Friday afternoon, thanks to the efforts of Maryland poet and PhD student Julie Enszer, we will have a poetry reading featuring Regie Cabico, Reginald Harris, and Richard McCann placing their work in conversation with writers from pre-Stonewall queer literary history. At 4:30, Judith Halberstam will deliver the symposium's keynote address, "Queer Negativities." The day will conclude with a reception.
Saturday, April 18 will be a full day of faculty paper sessions on a broad range of subjects (titles and presenters below). The symposium will conclude with an evening of celebration and conviviality at Marilee Lindemann and Martha Nell Smith's home in Takoma Park. We'll have a reception and dinner and, if we're lucky, some quality time under the stars.
We hope you will be able to join us for any or all of these festivities. A condensed version of the schedule is below. We will have a more complete version up on the symposium web site in the next couple of weeks. For those of you not familiar with the Maryland campus, rest assured the web site will have detailed information about parking and building locations.
We invite you to join us for any or all of the two day's events. Due to limitations on space and our desire to create a seminar-type atmosphere on Saturday, however, we ask that you register in advance for that day only. We also hope that you will be able to stay with us for the entire day on Saturday, though we understand that may not be possible in every case. If you would like to attend on Saturday, you can request a registration form by sending an email to: lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu. Please fill out the form and return it by e-mail to lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu or by fax to 301.314.2529.
The DC Queer Studies Symposium
A Two-Day Conference at the University of Maryland
April 17-18, 2009, College Park, MD
Free and open to the public
Friday, April 17, 2009
Riggs Alumni Center and McKeldin Library, University of Maryland
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Registration and Welcome (Riggs Alumni Center)
quickanddirty V: A Graduate Queer Studies Symposium
Presentations by graduate students from American University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and University of Maryland
10:00 – 11:15 AM
Concurrent Graduate Symposium Sessions
Speaking Truth to Power: Lesbian Performances, Politics, and Production (Chaney Library)
Amy Washburn, University of Maryland
Julie R. Enszer, University of Maryland
Maria Vargas, University of Maryland
Deviant at the Core: Reading Queerness in Iconic Texts (AAI Conference Room)
Caroline Sidman, Georgetown University
Melissa Yinger, American University
James Goodwin, University of Maryland
11:30 – 12:45 PM
Concurrent Graduate Symposium Sessions
Heteronormativity: Seductions and Subversions (Chaney Library)
Mary Elizabeth Bazemore, University of Maryland
Reed Cooley, George Washington University
Maria Velazquez, University of Maryland
Paranoia, Trauma, and Laughter: Combating Queer Invisibility in the 1960s and 1970s (AAI Conference Room)
Lisa Chinn, Georgetown University
Yee-Hang Tam, Georgetown University
Rebecca Krefting, University of Maryland
1:00 – 2:15 PM
Lunch on own
2:30 – 4 PM
Queer Writers Read
McKeldin Library 6137, Special Events Room
Regie Cabico, Reginald Harris, Richard McCann
4:30 – 6:30 PM
Keynote Address and Reception
McKeldin Library 6137, Special Events Room
Queer Negativities
Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California, English/Gender Studies
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Benjamin Banneker Room, Adele Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland
(Seating for Saturday events is limited, so pre-registration is required. Contact lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu for information.)
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Registration and Coffee
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Faculty Paper Session: Queer Pasts
Falstaff’s Fairies: Queer Ravishment in Shakespeare’s Windsor, Holly Dugan, George Washington University
History as Quick Cash: The Female Husband and the Pregnant Man, Mandy Berry, American University
What It Feels Like for a Grrrl: Susan and Emily Dickinson, Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland
“Where’s That Partner of Mine?”: Ethel Waters and the Management of Black Queer Desire, Samantha Pinto, Georgetown University
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Buffet Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Faculty Paper Session: Constructing Queer Knowledges
Period Cramps, Madhavi Menon, American University
My Love for Hip Hop Is In Its Queerness, Jeffrey McCune, University of Maryland
Queer Transdisciplinarities, Katie King, University of Maryland
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 – 5:00 PM
Faculty Paper Session: Sex, Sexuality, Politics
Creating Kenyan Intimacies, Keguro Macharia, University of Maryland
Men Get Lean and Mean, Women De-Clutter: Weight Loss, Heteronormative Temporality, and the Thin Contract, Abby Wilkerson, George Washington University
LAUREL: The Irony of Lesbian Identity?, Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland
Left Melodrama, Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University
7:00 – 10 PM
Reception and Dinner
(Off campus. Please RSVP, by April 3, for the dinner when you register for the symposium.)
DC Queer Studies is a group of faculty from schools in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area formed in 2006 to discuss new works in the field and to exchange, support, and cultivate new ways of engaging with LGBT/Queer/Sexuality Studies across the disciplines and across institutions.
Sponsored by: University of Maryland (Comparative Literature Program, Departments of American Studies, English, and Women’s Studies, Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies in the Department of History, LGBT Studies Program, Office of Undergraduate Studies); American University (College of Arts and Sciences); Georgetown University (Department of English, Graduate School); the George Washington University (Departments of American Studies and English, University Writing Program)
