Schedule
For full program, including paper titles, please click here.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 | THURSDAY, MARCH 5 | FRIDAY, MARCH 6
RETHINKING SEX GRADUATE SEMINAR
Call for Papers
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
- 4:00-7:00 p.m. Registration, Houston Hall Lobby
7:00-9:00 p.m. Registration, Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - 5:00 p.m.
Location: 402 Cohen Hall
Film Screening: Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
Leo Bersani will be speaking about the film in his paper "Father Knows Best" on Thursday, March 5 at 9 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Opening Session (NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: TALK WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT HARRISON AUDITORIUM IN THE PENN MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY)
Greeting from Bob Schoenberg
Greeting from Dean Ann Matter
Opening Remarks, Heather Love
Introductions to Gayle Rubin:
Steven Epstein
Sharon Holland
Susan Stryker
Gayle Rubin: Blood Under the Bridge: Reflections on “Thinking Sex”
PLEASE NOTE:If you have registered for the conference and you would like to attend Gayle Rubin's lecture YOU MUST ARRIVE, CHECK IN, AND CLAIM A SEAT BY NO LATER THAN 7 PM. The lecture begins at 7:30 PM, but we will begin giving away seats to non-registered guests at 7 PM. Be sure to be in your seat by 7 PM, or you will be asked to join the general line for seats (and it is extremely likely that you will end up in an overflow room). Registration will begin at Houston Hall at 4 PM on Wednesday (see map for directions), so you should have plenty of time to register and find a seat.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Houston Hall - Bodek Lounge
- 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Coffee - 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Intimacies
Leo Bersani
Respondents: Nancy Bentley, David Kurnick
Moderator: Homay King - 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Bodies, Media, and Politics
Jennifer Terry
Steven Epstein
Carole S. Vance
Larry Gross
Moderators: Virginia Chang & Katherine Sender - 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch - 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Rethinking Intersectionality
Lisa Henderson
Michele Mitchell
Robert McRuer
Moderator: Barbara Savage - 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Hope and Hopelessness
José Esteban Muñoz
Lisa Duggan
Moderator: Lázaro Lima - 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Rethinking Sex, Rethinking Gender
Susan Stryker
Joanne Meyerowitz
Sharon Holland
Judith Halberstam
Moderator: Kathy Peiss - 8:30 p.m.
Performance by Matmos (International House)
Friday, March 6, 2009
Houston Hall - Bodek Lounge
- 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Open Discussion with Graduate Students (Room 135, Fisher-Bennett Hall)
Moderator: Valerie Traub - 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Coffee
- 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Living with Neoliberalism
Janet Jakobsen
Jasbir Puar
Dean Spade
Nan D. Hunter
Moderator: Yolanda Martínez San-Miguel - 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch with Matmos
Moderator: Mark Butler
Drew Daniel, Martin Schmidt
Tavia Nyong’o - 1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Globalizing Sex
Gayatri Gopinath
Lisa Rofel
Martin Manalansan
Neville Hoad
Moderator: David Eng - 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Sex Without Optimism
Lauren Berlant
Lee Edelman
Moderator: Patricia White - 4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Pedagogy
Marisa Belausteguigoitia
Deborah Britzman
Heather Love
Moderator: Andrew Lamas
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick *is unable to attend due to illness.
- 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Closing Reception (LGBT Center) - 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Abigail Child “On the Downlow” and "Mayhem"
Q & A with director (International House)
Moderator: Hoang Nguyen - 10:00 p.m.
Final Party (Sisters, 1320 Chancellor St.)
Free Admission from 10-11pm with proof of conference registration. After 11pm there will be a $5 cover charge.