Friday Oct. 23, 2009

9:30 A.M. Welcomes

10 A.M. Session
Queering American Studies

“ ‘Wounded Attachments’ and Redress: Undoing Filipina Victimhood Under Colonial Rule”
Robert Diaz, Wayne State University;

“Queer Relative: Audre Lorde, Joseph Beam and Diasporic Solidarity”
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Duke University;

“The Diva Ends/The Diva’s Ends”
Licia Fiol-Matta, Lehman College, City University of New York;

“The Queer and the Cosmopolitan”
Hiram Perez, Vassar College.

Moderator: Laura Lomas, Acting Director of Women and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers-Newark

1:30 P.M. Session
Standing in a Ditch: Queer Encounters with the Public

Questions, answers and discussion with all four guest speakers.

Moderators: Aimee Cox, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies,
Rutgers-Newark, and Taylor Black, Phd Student, American Studies, Rutgers-Newark

3 P.M. Comments: Carlos A. Ball, Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law (Newark)

3:10 P.M.: Closing Remarks, Beryl Satter, Chair and Associate Professor of History, Rutgers-Newark

3:30 P.M. Reception, Robeson Gallery