Queer + Public + Performance Inaugural Meeting, 10/5, 6 PM

Queer + Public + Performance
INAUGURAL MEETING
Monday, Oct 5 - 6:00 PM
Communications 226
UW-Seattle

At this inaugural meeting, the group will open the floor to introductions of attendees and their work.  Also on the agenda is charting the course for the series of quarterly reading groups and tea times to be held throughout the year, as well as beginning to answer one of the questions that speaks to the very existence of a queer research collective such as this: To what extent and with what investments is a queer public formed in and through queer performance and the performance of queerness?

Q+P+P invites collaboration and coalition.  Please come with suggestions for: 1) a reading you'd be interested in discussing at one of our reading groups, 2) an idea for a tea time discussion, 3) a faculty member you know who would be willing to participate in our teas, 4) on and off campus groups you think should be a part of our "public," and 5) local performers and artists that might embody, evoke, or complicate the work of the group.

Queer + Public + Performance is a working group that engages the intersection of queer scholarship, performance, art, and technologies within the university and beyond. The group intends to engage cross-disciplinary, crossplatform 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.

For more information, go to http://queerpublicperformance.blogspot.com/ or http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/projects_0910_queer_public_performance.htm