D.C. Queer Studies 2015: Queer Speculations

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Conjecture, Interpretation, and Desire: Representing/Erasing Queerness in European Literature and History
3132 Tawes Hall

IRENE GÓMEZ CASTELLANO Drying Sappho's Sweat: The Aesthetic Reception of Sappho's "Oda a los zelos" (sic) in 19th-Century Spain, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Spanish

CJ GOMOLKA Guessing Games: Speculative Desire and Reader Relations in the Works of Achille Essebac, DePauw University, French

CAITLYN MCLOUGHLIN Pricked Wounds: Queer Futures in Violent Devotional Practices of Medieval Holy Women, The Ohio State University, English Literature

MEHL PENROSE Royal Speculations: The Brothers Bécquer on King Francis of Spain in The Bourbons Disrobed, University of Maryland, Spanish

Moderator: Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland, English

Familial Speculations: New Norms and Alternative Narratives of Parenting, Childhood, and Youth
3134 Tawes Hall

SAMUEL H. ALLEN Gender Nonconforming Children and Their Parents: Speculating a New Type of Queer Family, University of Maryland, Family Science

MEGAN NANNEY Gays Going Global: Institutional Scripting of Homonormative Student Identities in Study Abroad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Sociology

JESSICA ANN VOORIS "Is it a boy or a girl?" "Maybe." Queer Speculations of Children's Gender and Sexuality, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

Moderator: Marilee Lindemann, University of Maryland, College Park Scholars

Sub-Genres, Trans-Genres: Bodies and Forms Across the Natural and Beyond It
3136 Tawes Hall

GREGORY LUKE CHWALA Speculative Queer Ecologies and Cultural Imperialism in H. Rider Haggard's She, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, English Literature and Criticism

ZACHARY HARVAT Dreadful Desires: Queering, Cripping, and the Gothic, The Ohio State University, English Literature

A. LAVELLE PORTER The Splendor and the Misery: Reading the Body in Samuel Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, William Patterson University, English

LAUREN SHOEMAKER "Not One to Manacle Nature": Speculations of Environment and Transgenderism in Cereus Blooms at Night, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, English Literature and Criticism

Moderator: Rebecca Holden, University of Maryland, English

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Making Queer Worlds: Speculations on Community, Theory, and Practice
Tawes 3132

MICHAEL LOADENTHAL Concerning Dissent and (un)Civil Disobedience: Queer Theory, Poststructuralism and Insurrection, George Mason University, Conflict Analysis and Resolution

ELTON NASWOOD Two Spirits, Multiple Futures: Digital Storytelling as a Culturally Responsive HIV/AIDS Health Promotion Tool by Native LGBT/Two Spirit Individuals in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health Resource Center

GARY LEE PELLETIER Half Full or Full of Shit? Still Searching For A Queer Optimism, York University, Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies

JACLYN PRYOR After José: Cruising Home, Haverford College, English and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights

Moderator: Calvin Warren, George Washington University, American Studies

Speculative Infamy: Queer Feminism and the Uses of Gossip, Celebrity, and Fandom
Tawes 3134

KATHRYN KEIN Sketching Possibility: Lily Tomlin, Sketch Comedy, and the Queer Feminist Potential of "What If?", The George Washington University, American Studies

FRANKIE MASTRANGELO Branding the Monster: Lady Gaga's Celebrity Hyperspace, Translations of Fandom into Consumer-Based Activism, and the Commercial Logic of Non-profit Organizations in a Digital Era, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies

PAMELA VANHAITSMA Speculative Gossip for Queer History, Old Dominion University, English

Moderator: Holly Dugan, The George Washington University, English

Speculative Visions and Visual Speculations in Art, Film, and Digital Media
Tawes 3136

LUCAS HILDERBRAND The Curves of Your Lips Rewrite History: On Velvet Goldmine and Queer Retrospeculations, University of California, Irvine, Film and Media Studies

CAEL KEEGAN Race-ing to Speculation: Timing and Spacing the Transgender Cinematic Archive, Grand Valley State University, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

JOE MADURA The Art of Félix González-Torres as Speculation and Critique, Emory University, Art History

MITALI THAKOR Queering Science & Technology Studies: Avatars, Algorithms, and the Policing of Child Sexual Abuse Images, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, & Society

Moderator: Lily Wong, American University, Literature

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Software Dreams, Designer Algorithms, and Queerly Crafted Worlds: Speculative Fictions as Queer Alternative Possible Futures
Tawes 3132

RENA BIVENS Teenage Software Dreams, Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

LAURA FORLANO Designer Algorithms, Illinois Institute of Technology, Design

MÉL HOGAN Designer Algorithms, Illinois Institute of Technology, Communication

MELISSA ROGERS Queerly Crafted Worlds: Speculative Feminist Materialism, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

Moderator: Katie King, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

The (Queer) Speculative Network: Social Media's Erotic Economies of Encounter, Exchange, and Survival
Tawes 3134

STEPHEN BERNARDINI Jack'd In: Hook Up Apps, Global Positioning Systems, and the Virtual Street in the Lives of Black Queer Young People, Rutgers University, Childhood Studies

BRADY FORREST They Don't Know About Us: The Queer Epistemology of One Direction or Let's talk about how Harry and Louis cruise each, The George Washington University, American Studies

ZACH LEVINE Specular Intimacies: Autonomy, Faciality, and Attachment in Grindr's Marketplace of Desire, Duke University, Cultural Anthropology

Moderator: Ricardo Ortíz, Georgetown University, English

Global Speculations: National and Transnational Queer Imaginaries
Tawes 3136

R. BENEDITO FERRÃO Gaily Globalizing Goa in My Brother… Nikhil, The College of William and Mary, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

JOY HAYWARD-JANSEN Queering the Plaasroman: Homoeroticism in Marlene Niekerk's Agaat, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, English Literature

RONAK K. KAPADIA Palestine in the Sky:  Settler Security State Violence through the Astro-Futuristic​​ Fantasies of Larissa Sansour, University of Illinois, Chicago, Gender and Women's Studies

JAIMES MAYHEW The Natural Queer at Home, Abroad and in Utopia: An Artist's Perspective, American University, Art

Moderator: Michelle Rowley, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

LENARY SESSION
Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall

RAMZI FAWAZ Stepford Wives and Female Men: The Radical Differences of Female Replicants, University of Wisconsin, Madison, English

SHANTÉ PARADIGM SMALLS Superheroes, Queerness, and Anti-Blackness: Storm, Django, and Michael Brown, St. John’s University, English

Moderator: Alexis Lothian, University of Maryland, Women’s Studies

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall

JUANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ Feeling Queerly, Knowing Otherwise, University of California, Berkeley, Gender & Women’s Studies