Event

Featuring a conversation with Alison Bechdel at 7:30pm October 31, 2013

 
As its institutional footing becomes more secure, queer studies finds itself increasingly torn between anti- and inter-disciplinary impulses. “Queer Method" takes this context as its focus, examining not what the subject of queer theory should be, but rather how its work has and might be done. In its turn to this set of questions, “Queer Method” will provide a forum in which to acknowledge the methodological innovations of the field, to evaluate the disciplinary effects and affiliations of queer studies, and to ask what it means to understand queer work as having a method, or to imagine method itself as queer.

Participants include: Mel Chen (UC-Berkeley), Kandice Chuh (CUNY Graduate Center), Ann Cvetkovich (University of Texas, Austin), Roderick Ferguson (University of Minnesota), Carla Freccero (UC-Santa Cruz), Eva Hayward (University of New Mexico), Katie King (University of Maryland), Mara Mills (NYU), Afsaneh Najmabadi (Harvard), Mimi Nguyen (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Cindy Patton (Simon Fraser, Visiting Scholar Penn), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers), Mark Rifkin (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Peter Sigal (Duke), Susan Stryker (University of Arizona), Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (University of Texas, Austin), Valerie Traub (University of Michigan), Robyn Wiegman (Duke)