Queer Interdisciplinary Studies I: Panel Discussion
Friday,
February 20 / 2 PM / Oakes Mural Room
This event highlights the interdisciplinary
productivity of the concept "queer." In fields such as literature,
feminist studies, cultural studies, critical race studies, politics, anthropology,
history, art, and visual culture, "queer" has served as a productive
category for rethinking disciplines, methods, and objects of study. Speakers
from among these disciplines will present their work in a roundtable discussion,
addressing not only their specific object of study, but the ways in which "queer"
as a conceptual category, an analytical lens, and a method has influenced and/or
reworked their fields.
SPEAKERS
Gayatri Gopinath, UC
Davis
Gayatri Gopinath is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
at UC Davis. Her work on gender, sexuality and the South Asian diaspora has
appeared in the journals GLQ, positions, and Diaspora,
and most recently in the anthology Queer Globalization (eds. Arnaldo
Cruz Malave and Martin Manalansan, NYU, 2002). Her book, Impossible Subjects:
Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, is forthcoming from Duke.
Lisa Rofel, UC Santa
Cruz
Lisa Rofel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. She works
on issues of gender, sexuality, and modernity in China and elsewhere. She is
the author of Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism
(California, 1998). She is currently working on a manuscript about desire and
globalization in contemporary China, and on a book of essays about contemporary
Zionism.
Dina Al-Kassim, UC Irvine
Dina Al-Kassim is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine,
where she teaches British, American, French, Arabic, Anglophone and Francophone
modernisms, critical theory, and postcolonial studies. Al-Kassim has published
in Interventions, Public Culture and the Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter
of the MLA. Her current projects include two volumes: On Pain of Speech,
which addresses the problem of subjection in modernist literature, and Repudiating
the Law, a comparative study of the phantom of kinship and impossible reparation
in the postcolonial states of North and South Africa.
Sponsored by the Queer Theory Research Cluster
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