UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010

 

Trans-lating the Middle East

Gil Hochberg, Comparative Literature and Vice Chair of LGBT Studies, University of California – Los Angeles

“On the (Im)Possibility of Queer Translatabilities and the Formation of Gender Identities in Post-Civil-War Beirut, Lebanon”

Queers On(the)Line: //Surfing Digital Trans/mission

James Schultz, Germanic Languages, University of California,  Los Angeles

“’Recruitment is Our Prime Directive’: Virality, Race, and Homonationalism in Gay Erotic Fiction”

Mica Hilson, English, Indiana University – Bloomington

Embodying Lesbian Possibilities

Jennifer Reed, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, California State University – Long Beach

Jodi A. Eisenberg, Literature, University of California – San Diego

“Disrupting the Discipline of Femininity in Western Modern Dance: The Role of a Lesbian/Queer identity in Artistic Innovation and Embodied Knowledge”

“’There is No Word to Describe What We Feel For Each Other’: Paving the Way for Lesbian Possibility and Representation in South Asian Diasporic Cinema”

The Williams Institute – Recent scholarship focused on policies affecting the Transgender Community        

“Law Enforcement Interactions within the Latino/a Transgender Community in Los Angeles”

 Alejandrina Juardo, Evaluation Specialist, Bienestar

“Gender Regulation in the Built Environment: Gender-Segregated Public Facilities and the Movement for Change in Washington, D.C.”

“National Survey of Discrimination Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People”

Kara Keeling, Critical Studies, University of Southern California

5:45 – 7:00                                                           LGBT Resource Center