D.C. Queer Studies 2005: Here is a Queer Planet: LGBT Studies in Global Contexts
The 3rd annual lecture series, “Here is a Queer Planet: LGBT Studies in Global Contexts,” built upon Michael Warner’s 1993 edited collection, Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory which heralded the arrival of a new way of doing cultural and political work on sex and sexuality.
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Tawes Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Audacious, antiassimilationism, and attentive to both the global underpinnings and the local specificities of sexuality and gender, queer studies aimed to travel widely and across a wide range of disciplinary and geopolitical boundaries. This year’s lecture series created opportunities to continue that journey. Through speakers, film and discussions, the series presented multiple perspectives on global queerness and considered the face and the shape of LGBT Studies and queer activism beyond U.S. borders and within diverse communities.
Events included:
- February 22: Helen Zia, “The Coming ‘Minority’ Majority and other Diversity Challenges: Margin Notes of an Asian American Writer”
- March 16: Irshad Manji, “Confessions of a Muslim Dissident; Why I Fight for Gays and Lesbians, Women Jews…and Allah
- April 14: Martin Manalansan, “Queers, Race, and the Neoliberal City”
- May 5: Film Screening of “Dangerous Living” by John Scagliotti
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