04/13/2013
The Sexuality Studies Program at York University Presents a collection of interdisciplinary faculty scholarship; from LGBTQ narratives of resistance, to q***r and transgender cultural production, to psychoanalytic theory, to transnational and postcolonial studies and beyond. This conference demonstrates the growing significance of sexuality studies in Canada and across a variety of geo-political spaces and in relation to identities, power and difference(s).
Featuring the works of scholars Sheila Cavanagh, John Greyson, Nick Mule, Bobby Noble, Cate Sandilands, Miriam Smith, Marc Stein, Nathan Rambukkana, and Amar Wahab.
Panels include:
10:15 – 11:45
Panel One: Homonationalisms: Citizenship, Social Media and ‘White’ Anxieties;
1:15 – 2:45
Panel Two: Sexual Representations: Narratives, Pedagogies and Politics;
3:00 – 4:30
Panel Three: Q***r Bio-political Theorizing: Transgendering Diagnostics, LGBTQ Activism and Legal Discourses
Complimentary breakfast begins at 9:30am.
May 1st
Sponsored by LA&PS Research Events and Outreach Fund, the Associate Vice- President Research of LA&PS, the Centre for Feminist Research, and the Sexuality Studies Program , History Department, The Law and Society Program and the Film Studies Department at York University.
