Queer of Color Genealogies

Queer of Color Genealogies

UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2012

The UCLA Queer Studies Conference is the annual conference presented by the  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program at UCLA.

DATE: October 19, 2012

PLACE: 314 Royce Hall

ORGANIZED BY: Maylei Blackwell, Associate Professor in the Departments of Chicano/Chicana Studies and Gender Studies at UCLA, and Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UCLA

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jafari Sinclaire Allen and Sandra K. Soto

PANELS: Settler Colonialism and Queer Indigeneity, featuring 
Jodi A. Byrd
,Qwo-Li Driskill, and 
Dan Taulapappa McMullin; Transnational Aesthetics/Erotics
,featuring Vanessa Agard-Jones, 
Chitra Ganesh, Lawrence La Fontaine-Stokes, and 
Roy Pérez; Histories and Archives
Kai M. Green, featuring 
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, 
Alice Y. Hom
, and Horacio N. Roque Ramírez; qnd LGBT Youth of Color
, featuring Laura E. Durso
, Angeliki Kastanis
, Lisa Powell
, and Bianca D. M. Wilson 

COSPONSORS: David Bohnett Foundation, UCLA Division of Humanities, UCLA Division of Social Sciences, UCLA Graduate Division, UCLA Office of Faculty Diversity and Development, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies, and the UCLA departments of Anthropology, Art History, Asian American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, Chicana/o Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film Television and Digital Media, French and Francophone Studies, Gender Studies, Germanic Languages, History, Information Studies, Musicology, Psychology, Sociology, and Theater.

MORE INFO: http://lgbtstudies.ucla.edu/events/upcoming-events.html