Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Ames Hawkins, Columbia College Ames Hawkins’s will perform three readings from her installation Paper Violets, Vellum Prose followed by a Q&A. In this work, she creates a multi-layered environment into which the viewers are invited to enter, stay for a while, and engage. The pew, the needlepoint cushion, […]
Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia “Had” the speaker of Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” “but world enough, and time,” he would write a poem. Its subject and addressee would be his beloved, and its form would be the blazon. He would “praise” her “eyes,” “forehead,” “breast,” her […]
Free and open to the public "Collaboration/Rasanbleman: Working in and through Kreyòl Modes of Performance” Dasha Chapman, Hampshire College, Five College Consortium “Our Love on Fire: Gay Men’s Stories of Violence and Hope in Haiti” Mario LaMothe, University of Illinois at Chicago Co-sponsored by the HI Queer Studies Research Workshop, the Department of Romance Languages […]
Queer Studies Research Workshop Welcome event, 27 September 5:30pm, back room of Taste of India on Sheridan at North Bailey. No cost delicious meal and an opportunity to meet fellow faculty and grads working in queer studies. Currently our membership spans 23 different departments offering fabulous opportunities to meet new collaborators. Bring a friend! Vegetarian […]
Kaja is one of our age’s most significant and innovative theorists, bridging photography, film scholarship, art history, and psychoanalysis. She will present from her forthcoming volume The Three-Personed Picture. Her visit is co-sponsored by the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture, the Dept of Comp Lit, Ewa Ziarek Julian Park Chair, the Dept of Media Study, […]
Ron Athey is considered to be one of the most important performance artists working today. Famed for his work that dealt with issues of pain and endurance as a metaphor for those living with HIV/AIDS (among whom Athey counts himself) he has begun a series of new works exploring the prospect of achieving transcendence in […]
The Queer Studies Research Workshop presents Director of the Visual Studies PhD Program Jonathan D. Katz, "The Gray Flannel Suit and the Fright Wig: Warhol, Queerness and the Birth of Pop." Katz's new work on the prehistory of Pop underscores the powerful connections among Pop, Queerness, and the discursive prominence of a new category of […]
A visiting PhD student from Germany, Klassen will give a work in progress talk: “Swimming Away from NormativA visiting PhD student from Germany, Klassen will give a work in progress talk: “Swimming Away from Normative Fixations: The Politics of Wolfgang Tillmans’s Cameraless Photo Series Freischwimmer in the Context of Techno and Rave Club Culture”e Fixations: […]
"Edward Said met the great French novelist only once, in Beirut in 1972. However, the presence (and absence) of the author haunts Said during the last decade of his life when he was battling with leukemia and obsessively preoccupied with questions of music. This was the period in which he founded the now-famous middle-eastern youth […]
Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of modern and contemporary art. Murray is Associate Editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and is the author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights. Graduate seminar 21 Nov, 12:00-2:00 pm, 1032 Clemens
