DC Queer Studies Symposium 2023 Schedule
The 2023 DC Queer Studies Symposium: The Queer Limit of Black Memory will take place on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union Grand Ballroom Lounge.
Scroll down to learn more details about each panel and performance and don't forget to check out the speaker bios linked in the sidebar to learn more about our guests.
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Panels
10:30 am | Living Liberation: Black Queer Women's Literary Praxes
Moderator
- Dr. Zenzele Isoke, University of Maryland
Speakers
- Dr. Briona Jones, University of Connecticut
- Dr. Jennifer Williams, Howard University
- Dr. Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland
1:00 pm | Black Trans Storytelling: Erotic Epistemologies, Audacious Lives, and Tender Possibilities
Moderator
- Dr. Sayan Battacharya, University of Maryland
Speakers:
- Dr. GerShun Avilez, University of Maryland
- Dr. K. Marshall Green, University of Delaware
- Dr. LaVelle Ridley, Ohio State University
- Molasses
2:30 pm | Keynote: A Conversation with Matt Richardson featuring LaMonda Horton-Stallings
Moderator
- Dr. Alexis Lothian, University of Maryland
Speakers
- Dr. Matt Richardson. University of California, Santa Barbara
- Dr. LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Georgetown University
Performances
12:45 pm | Molasses, DC's #1 Drag King
- Introduction by Dr. William Mosley, University of Maryland