Thanks to everyone who attended the Q+P+P inaugural meeting. It was nice to see new and familiar faces. The meeting's agenda was pretty simple: 1) introduction to the Q+P+P and our objectives, 2) outline of the upcoming Q+P+P year, 3) planning for autumn quarter's Reading Group and Tea Time.
The Year
Each quarter will be given a general thematic and framing lens: Autumn = "Queer," Winter = "Public," Spring = "Performance." Events, readings, speakers, and productions would be geared toward thinking about each thematic. Of course, we would maintain an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to these terms every quarter.
We are looking for speaker suggestions for the Winter. And we are looking for performance suggestions for the Spring. Please comment with people and performances (preferably who are local or will be local and who will offer their time pro bono) that might suit the Q+P+P project.
Autumn Reading Group
Q+P+P is soliciting suggestions for the Autumn Reading Group (Monday, November 2, 6 PM, COM 226). Readings should expand, challenge, rearticulate the thematic "Queer," perhaps identifying and showcasing lines of inquiry and investigation outside of the usual queer theory or queer studies canon -- queer on the edges as it were. For example, a suggestion was made to make the Reading Group in part about discussing the various queer-friendly film festivals happening in Seattle (e.g. Tasveer's South Asian Film Festival, the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, even HUMP). Please post your suggestions via comments for readings for the Reading Group for this upcoming quarter (and others).
Autumn Tea Time
Tentatively, the autumn Tea Time will feature the intersection of 'queer' and 'technology', in particular online spaces and technologies. If you have suggestions of faculty, community member, local queer website purveyor that would be good to invite, please leave a comment below. If you would like to present your work, please contact the Q+P+P. Tea Times are meant to be intimate colloquiums where presenters briefly sketch their work and interests and the majority of the time is devoted to discussion and exchange.
In thinking about readings beyond the queer keywords entry, I did a little re-reading of "After Sex," the South Atlantic Quarterly's special issue (Summer 2007) that generally addresses the future of queer studies. The meaning and doing of 'queer work' is the focus of many articles and may generate some interesting discussion.
ReplyDeleteI re-read contributions from Elizabeth Freeman and Ann Cvetkovich, both of which I'd be interested in re-thinking with others. Neither are terribly long (5-10 pages). Additionally, to frame the project of the issue for those less familiar with it, skimming the Intro might be a good idea.
I know time is short, and I don't have the capacity for scanning around my place, but if someone wanted to volunteer setting up a link with PDFs or whatevs, it's SAQ 106:3, Summer 2007. Folks could just download off-campus from the UW library site, too, right?
Ok, just some food for thought. jj