On September 23-25th 2010, the LGBT Studies Program & Minor at Syracuse University will be hosting a Transnationalizing LGBT Studies Conference/Workshop in Syracuse, New York. This will be a small, single-track conference/workshop so that all participants will be in attendance for the keynote addresses, panels, and workshops. We will take up the question of what it means theoretically, politically, and pedagogically to ‘transnationalize’ LGBT Studies:

Keynote Speakers

The keynote speakers are Martin F. Manalansan IV (University of Illinois) and Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia), who will be speaking Friday and Saturday mornings.

Evening with Richard Fung

On Friday evening filmmaker Richard Fung will speak about his work through the optic of the transnational.

Plenary Talks

Martin F. Manalansan IV (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"The House We Live In: Queer Habitations in the 21st Century"

Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia University)
"The Part That Has No Part: Queer Corporeality"

Panels

[1] "Queer History/Memory/Archive and Transnational Contexts"
Marc Epprecht (Queens University)
"The Transnational Imperative in African Sexuality and Gender Studies"

Raquel Osborne (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid)
"Lesbianism and Prisoner Hierarchies in Nazi Concentration Camps and Early Franco-era Prisons"

Nicholas Matte (University of Toronto)
"Changing Sex and American Transnationalism in Memory, History, and Archives"

[2] "The Poetics and Politics of Queer Trans-Border Desires"
T. Jackie Cuevas (Syracuse University)
"Transhistorical and Transnational Approaches to Queer Mexican American Narratives"

Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
"Songs for Ezili: Vodou Epistemologies of (Trans)gender"

Dagmawi Woubshet (Cornell University)
"New World Alphabet"


[3] "The Worldliness of Queer Media”"
Samuel Dwinell (Cornell University)
"Tempests and Teacups: British Opera, Queer Orientalism and the State of Decolonization”

Carla Marcantonio (George Mason University)
"Globetrotting Queerness: The Films of Almodovar and Wong Kar-Wai"

Patricia White (Swarthmore College)
"Trans/national Spaces of Lesbian Film"


[4]  "Queer Advocacy, Organization and Representation"
Raquel (Lucas) Platero
"The Narratives of Transgender Rights Mobilization in Spain"

Thomas Glave (SUNY Binghamton)
"The Queer Caribbean: What's Happening Now?"

Arsham Parsi (Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees)
"The Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees"

Please register if you are interested in coming to the lectures and panels. Space is limited.