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Saturday, November 13, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm Oakes Learning Center This conference explores the interrelations of "pre-" and "post-" modern work in the theory and history of sexuality, in relation to issues of conquest, crusade, and colonialism. The conference undertakes an investigation of inter- and intra-cultural encounters across differences, variously construed, from the medieval period to the present, with particular attention to questions of identity formation (racialized, gendered, caste and class-based) and its dependence on the construction of an "other." While chronologically distinct topics such as medieval crusades, Renaissance "first encounters," early and modern colonialisms, and contemporary post-colonialism are germane to the conference, it is our intention that the participants and the conversations they generate put pressure on the utility and integrity of rigid distinctions. For example, the conference will explore the discursive and representational continuities between temporally distanced encounters, while attending to questions of context and specificity. "Queer Encounters" is a project of the ongoing Queer Theory Research Cluster at UCSC, comprising faculty and students in literature, cultural studies, history, and a number of other fields. |
Participants Dina Al-Kassim Comparative Literature, Stanford University Joseph Boone English, USC Geraldine Heng English, University of Texis, Austin Stephen Orgel English, Stanford University |