Earlham College
sexuality out of place
graduate conference on sexuality studies
earlham college | March 31 & April 1, 2006
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Conference Schedule

Friday, March 31st

6:30 pm: Opening Keynote (LBC 105)
Dr. David Halperin, English, University of Michigan
"What Does a Gay Man Want?"

Saturday, April 1st

9:00am-10:30am:
Panel 1, Explorations in Theory
Patrick Frankart, Philosophy, Earlham College: "Geschlecht in Heidegger's Thought"
Jessica Radin, Philosophy/So-An, Earlham College: "Shifts in Catrography: Body, Place, and Agency"
Jen Tyburczy, Performance Studies, Northwestern University: "Pervertibles, Bodies, and Spaces: The Dynamics of Impact at the Leather Archives and Museum"
Discussant: Joann Martin, Sociology/Anthropology, Earlham College

10:30am-10:45am: Coffee Break, Bolling Center Richmond Room

10:45am-12:00pm
Panel 2: Communities, Boundaries, and Desire

Andrew Kaiser, Art History, University of Cincinnati: "Two Left Banks: Critiquing the Discourse on Early Modern Art in Paris and New York"
Gregory Mitchell, Anthropology, University of Chicago: "Gay Globalization and Brazilian Candomblé"
Wenyu Wu, Geography, University of Sheffield (UK): "Moral Geographies of Gay Life at Home in Taiwan"
Chair: Kari Kalve, English, Earlham College

Panel 3: Embodiments of Space
Jen Collins, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "Driving through Difference: The American Road Novel and Sexuality"
Alana Pryor-Ackerman, Earlham College: "Superheroes in the Big City: Masculinity, Place, and the Slippage of an Ideal"
Justin Hunt, Performance Studies, New York University: "Wyeth's Tilting Wrists: Gesturing Home"
Chair: Sandrine Sanos, History, Earlham College

12:00-1:15pm: Lunch, Orchard & Comstock Rooms, Runyan Center

1:15-2:30pm: Panel 4: Lesbian Sexualities & Race
Chloe Cooney, Barnard College/Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS: "Prove It On Me': Migration, Urbanization and the Making of an Autonomous, Black Lesbian Culture"
Rosa Yadira Ortiz, Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University: "Soy a dyke y que? A Quest for Identity and Sacred Space"
Chair: Barb Caruso, English, Earlham College

Panel 5: Asian Gay Urban Public Cultures
John Cho, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Korean Gay Porn in Ivancity"
Chris Tan, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Homo(normalizing) Economic(u)s: The Informal Gay District in Singapore's Chinatown"
James Welker, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
"Japanese Colonial Queer: Perversion and the Use of Colonial Space"

Chair: Peter Cline, History, Earlham College

3:00-4:15pm: Closing Keynote (LBC 105)
Christina Sharpe, English, Tufts University
"Race, Space, Place: Looking at Isaac Julien's The Attendant"

4:30-6:00pm: Quaker cocktail, Bolling Center Richmond Room




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