Events
These talks are made possible through the generous support of the Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships.
Unbearable Exuberance: Queer-Feminist-Left Responses to Gaza
Jasbir Puar
November 23, 2009, Time 4-6
GEOG 200, 1984 West Mall
Abstract:
Jasbir Puar is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and of Geography, at Rutgers University. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies; South Asian cultural studies; and theories of assemblage and affect. She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Professor Puar has also authored numeous articles that appear in Gender, Place, and Culture; Social Text; Radical History Review; Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ entitled, Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization and she co-edited a volume of Society and Space entitled Sexuality and Space.
Bio:
Dr. Jasbir Puar is a core faculty member in the department of Women's & Gender Studies, and a graduate faculty member in the department of Geography at Rutgers. Professor Puar's research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies;queer theory; South Asian cultural studies; and tourism studies. Professor Puar is the author of “Homonormativity and its Others,” in Gender, Place, and Culture (Winter2005), forthcoming; “Queer Times, Queer Assemblages,” in Social Text 84-85 vol. 23 nos. 3-4(Fall-Winter 2005), forthcoming; “On Torture: Abu Ghraib,” in Radical History Review (Fall 2005),forthcoming; “The Remaking of a Model Minority: Perverse Projectiles under the Specter of (Counter)Terrorism,” with Amit Rai, in Social Text 80 vol. 22 no. 3(Fall 2004); "Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots," with Amit Rai, in Social Text 72 vol. 20 no. 3 (Fall2002); “A Transnational Feminist Critique of Queer Tourism,” in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography vol. 34 no. 5 (November 2002); “Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourism, Travel,and Globalization,” in GLQ vol. 8 nos.1-2 (2001); "Global Circuits: Transnational Sexualities in Trinidad,"in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 26 no. 4 (Summer 2001); "Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets" in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness edited by Matt Wray et al (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001); amongst other publications in refereed journals and edited books. She has also edited a special issue of GLQ titled,"Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization" vol. 8 nos. 1-2 (2002).
Talk Sponsors:
Event organizer is Critical Studies in Sexuality.
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Dan Savage: Savage Love Live
Dan Savage
November 21, 2009, Time 8:00PM
Chan Centre, Tickets $27
Bio:
Dan Savage grew up in "a loud, argumentative, and very Catholic" family, and came out as gay as fruit cocktail.
Savage's column, "Savage Love," first appeared in 1991, in the first issue of The Stranger.The once-a-week column is funny, informative, outrageous,non-judgmental (about consenting sex acts), and very judgmental (about moronic letter-writers). "Savage Love" is now syndicated to alternative weeklies across North America, including The Georgia Straight in Vancouver.
Savage is the author of The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family; Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins And The Pursuit Of Happiness In America; Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist; and The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant.
In addition to writing his column, Savage is now the editor of The Stranger.He's also active in theatre, directing queer plays as Keenan Hollahan.Keenan is Savage's middle name, and Hollahan is his grandmother's maiden name.
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S. Bear Talk
S. Bear
November 9, 2009, Time TBA
Location TBA
Bio:
S. Bear Bergman is a writer, a theater artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian. Ze is also the author of Butch Is a Noun and three award-winning solo performances, as well as a frequent contributor to anthologies on all manner of topics.
Other CSIS Talks:
Fox Harrell
Phantasms and Shapeshifters: Imagination and Identity in Computing
AssistantProfessor, Digital Media, Department of Literature, Communication, andCulture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director, Imagination,Computation, and Expression [ICE] Lab/Studio
silver.skiles.gatech.edu/~dharrell3/
Sept. 23, 1-2:30, Digital Literacy Centre, Ponderosa F103
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Googlization of Everything
Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/
Oct 5th, noon - 1:30, Digital Literacy Center, Ponderosa F103
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Charles Menzies
Aboriginal Media Production and Community Research
Professor, Anthropology, UBC
Nov 4, Scarfe 310
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Bill Pinar
The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education
Canada Research Chair and Professor, Curriculum Education
January 13, 2010
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S. Lochlann Jain
Cancer Butch: Towards an Elegaic Politics
Associate Professor, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
February 10, 2010
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Pheng Cheah
Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Professor, Rhetoric Department, Berkeley
March 4, 2010
