Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network (MDCSN)
Workshops
Past workshops, please see the archive section.
'Queer Diasporas'
24-25 May 2007
Programme
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Martin Harris Building, Bragg Lecture Theatre
- 3.30 - 4.00 Welcome
- 4.00 - 5.30
Diaspora of Thought
Panel: 'Migrating Theories? Thinking about queerness in South and South East Asian contexts'
Chair: Margaret Littler
Paul Boyce (TCRU)
On (non) male-to-male sexual subjectivities in India and in trans-national context
Caroline Osella (SOAS)
On 'cinematic' ['Bollywood'] dance, gender segregation, and the expansion of female gendered and erotic ranges
Martyn Rogers
On young men's negotiations of mixed and segregated spaces on college campuses
Mark Johnson (Hull)
On why gender theory has always been mobile and labile - 5.45 - 6.30
Film Screening
Chair: Rajinder Dudrah
Milind Soman Made Me Gay
Written and Directed by Harjant Gill
30 mins/2007/In-Post Production
Friday, May 25, 2007
Martin Harris Building, Bragg Lecture Theatre
- 9.30 - 10.30
Chair: Rajinder Dudrah
Key Note Lecture by
Professor Gayatri Gopinath (University of California at Davis)
Rethinking Space and Sexuality in Transnational Times - 10.30 - 10.45
Coffee Break - 10.45 - 12.15
Stories of Displacement
Chair: Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Carrie Hamilton (Roehampton University, London)
Moving In: Queer Migrations Inside Cuba
Bettina Büchler (University of Bern, Switzerland)
A Sense of (Un)belonging - Real and Imagined Spaces of Women-Loving Migrant and Refugee Women in Switzerland
Adi Kunstmann (University of Lancaster, Lancaster)
Genealogies of Hate, Metonymies of Violence: Immigration, Homophobia, Homopatriotism - 12.15 - 01.30
Lunch Break - 1.30 - 3.00
Queer Identities
Chair: Shirley Tate
Michela Baldo (University of Manchester, Manchester)
Queering Femininity in Italian-North American female writers
Christian Klesse (Manchester Metropolitan University)
On the Limits of Community Discourses: Gay and bisexual British South-Asian men and the question of non-monogamy
Sanaz Raji (SOAS, London) and Michelle S. Davis (SOAS, London))
Queer Iranian Diaspora Through the Pages of Literature and the Vision of Film - 3.00 - 3.30
Coffee Break - 3.30 - 5:00
Queer Performance
Chair: Chris Perriam
Alpesh Patel (University of Manchester, Manchester)
Queer "Desi" Art Criticism
Humaira Saeed (University of Manchester, Manchester)
Fixity, Fluidity, and Queer Diasporic Subcultures
Harjant Gill (American University, Washington DC)
On The Significance of Salting & Peppering Mangoes -
Music, Performance and Transgression of MIA in the South Asian Diaspora - 5.00-5.30
Concluding Comments