Miriam Silverberg Memorial

Please join us for a memorial celebration of the life of Miriam Silverberg, scholar, colleague, and friend.

This event will honor Miriam's life and accomplishments.

Co-sponsored by the Department of History

2008 Fall Reception

Celebrate the start of a new academic year!

Refreshments provided.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies

LA Queer Studies Conference

Conference Program

This year's LA Queer Studies Conference is the successor to the QGrad conferences held annually at UCLA beginning in 1999. Although we no longer limit the conference to graduate students, we always encourage substantial graduate student participation, since one of the goals of the current format is to foster the exchange of ideas between graduate student and faculty scholars.

The LA Queer Studies Conference 2008 is organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program with generous support from the David Bohnett Foundation, the Gill Foundation, and the UCLA Division of Humanities, Graduate Division, Center for the Study of Women, Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, and the departments of Anthropolopgy, Art History, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film, TV, and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, Musicology, Sociology, and Women's Studies.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology

FACULTY CURATOR SERIES

Race in Sexuality
The Color of LGBT

Jasbir Puar
Associate Professor,
Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University
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Professor Puar is a core faculty member in the department of Women's & Gender Studies, and a graduate faculty member in the department of Geography at Rutgers.

Professor Puar's research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies; queer theory; South Asian cultural studies; and tourism studies.

Professor Puar is currently working on a book manuscript on queer biopolitics, race and sexuality, and discourses of counter/terrorism.

State of the Union Conference

FACULTY CURATOR SERIES

Race in Sexuality
The Color of LGBT

David Eng
Professor, English,
University of Pennsylvania
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David L. Eng is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and also a core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.A. in English from Columbia University.

His areas of specialization include American literature, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, queer studies, and visual culture.

He is currently at work on two new projects, a study of neoliberalism and desire in Chinese cinema and an analysis of political and psychic reparation.

Lynne Huffer
Professor & Chair,
Women's Studies
Emory University
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LYNNE HUFFER is Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at Emory University. She received her Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Michigan in 1989, and taught at Yale University and Rice University before coming to Emory in 2005. Her fields of study include feminist theory; queer theory; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies; modern French and francophone literature; literary theory; and ethics.

She is the author of Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia and the Question of Difference (Stanford UP, 1998), Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing (University of Michigan Press, 1992), and numerous articles on feminist theory, queer theory, and French literature. She is also the editor of a special issue of Yale French Studies: Another Look, Another Woman: Retranslations of French Feminisms (1995). Her current book project explores the problem of ethics in feminist and queer theories, with a particular focus on the work of Michel Foucault.

Co-sponsored by the Department of French & Francophone Studies

FACULTY CURATOR SERIES

Race in Sexuality
The Color of LGBT

Kathryn Stockton
Professor, English,
University of Utah
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Meet the Authors

Thinking Gender 2009
19th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods.

We invite submissions for individual papers or preconstituted panels.  We especially welcome feminist research on women of color, the premodern, queerness, and the sciences.

Co-sponsored by the USC Center for Feminist Research

Emerging Epistemologies Workshop

Cathy J. Cohen
Professor, Political Science, University of Chicago
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