at Hofstra University
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Hosted by David A. Powell, Professor of French and Director, LGBTQ+ Studies Program, Hofstra University
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor
South Campus
Sponsored by the Hofstra University LGBTQ+ Studies Program
Symposium Program
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 9:15 | Welcome: Bernard J. Firestone, Dean, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts & Sciences David A. Powell, Director, LGBTQ+ Studies Program, Hofstra University |
| 9:30 | David Gerstner, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, CUNY Staten Island: "Queer Internationale: "Modes of Cultural Production in the 21st Century" |
| 10:15 | Paul Schindler, Editor, Gay City News: "What Can the Gay Press and Queer Studies Learn from Each Other?" |
| 11:00 | Carolyn Dinshaw, Professor of English, Acting Chair, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University: "Born Too Soon, Born Too Late: The Female Hunter of Long Eddy, circa 1855." |
| 11:45 | Cheryl Clarke, Director, Office of Social Justice Education and LGBTQ+ Communities, Rutgers: “Black Feminist Vexing of Black Macho in the Work of Black Gay Men, or Afro Homo Pomo Vexing of Black Macho” |
| 12:30 | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:45 | Robert Schwartzwald, Chair, Department of English Studies, Université de Montréal: "Post-national, Post-queer? Dispatches from the North" |
| 2:00 | Luciano Martínez, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Swarthmore College: "From Liberation to Coercion? Reflections on Gay Culture" |
| 2:45 | Jonathan D. Katz, Senior Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Former Executive Coordinator, Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale: "The Politics of Eros" |
| 3:30 | Gui Caliendo, Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Hofstra University: "Same Sex Marriage and the Argumentative Trajectory of Gay Rights: Normalizing and Regulating Gender Formation." |
| 4:15 | Coffee Break |
| 4:45 | Gema Pérez-Sánchez, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Miami: "One Big Queer European Family? Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Gay Films" |
| 5:00 | Steven Smith, Special Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages, Hofstra University: "What's Gay About the Greeks?: Constructions of 'Queer' Identity in Antiquity" |
| 5:45 | Tavia Nyong'o, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU: "When Black Meets Queer" |
| 6:30 | Closing Remarks: David A. Powell |