Friday, September 4, 2009

Feminist Legacies / Feminist Futures


The Simpson Center for the Humanities is hosting a 3-day conference (October 22-24, 2009) for the 25th anniversary of Hypatia, arguably the leading feminist journal in the US. The conference will feature some of the most influential feminist thinkers working today -- like, Kelly Oliver, Sandra Harding, Allison Jaggar, Maria Lugones.

Conference and registration details are here.

QPP Planning Meeting

The QPP will be having a pre-quarter planning meeting on Wednesday, September 9 at Schultzy's (on the Ave) at 5 PM.  The meeting will run about an hour or so. 

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Queer + Public + Performance @ UW

Queer + Public + Performance is a research cluster that will engage the intersection of queer scholarship, performance, art, and technologies within the university and beyond. To do this work, we intend to mobilize queer and allied scholars, teachers, artists, and activists to engage cross-disciplinary, cross-platform public cultural and intellectual work.  This year will focus specifically on queer publics and counterpublics to explore the practices, projects, and lived experiences situated on the peripheries of official publics. We hope to emphasize the co-constitutive and at times antagonistic intersections between “sex,” “gender,” “race,” “class,” and “nation” as we think about how keywords such as “sexuality,” “intimacy,” “queer theory and performance,” and “publicity” are constituted and complicated by changes (both conservative and transgressive) in regional and global political, economic, academic, and cultural interchanges.