Speakers:
- Marisa Belausteguigoitia (Gender Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico)
- Lauren Berlant (English, University of Chicago)
- Leo Bersani (French, University of California, Berkeley)
- Deborah Britzman (Education, York University)
- Lisa Duggan (Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University)
- Lee Edelman (English, Tufts University)
- Steven Epstein (Sociology, University of California, San Diego)
- Gayatri Gopinath (Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University)
- Larry Gross (Annenberg School, University of Southern California)
- Judith Halberstam (Literature, University of Southern California)
- Lisa Henderson (Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Neville Hoad (English and Women’s Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
- Sharon Holland (English, African & American Studies, Women’s Studies, Duke University)
- Nan Hunter (Georgetown Law)
- Janet Jakobsen (Religion and Women’s Studies, Barnard)
- Robert McRuer (English, George Washington University)
- Martin Manalansan (Anthropology and Asian-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Joanne Meyerowitz (History and American Studies, Yale University)
- Michele Mitchell (History, New York University)
- José Esteban Muñoz (Performance Studies, New York University)
- Tavia Nyong’o (Performance Studies, New York University)
- Jasbir Puar (Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University)
- Lisa Rofel (Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Gayle Rubin (Anthropology, University of Michigan)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (CUNY Graduate Center)
- Dean Spade (Seattle University School of Law)
- Susan Stryker (Gender Studies, Indiana University Bloomington)
- Jennifer Terry (Women’s Studies, University of California, Irvine)
- Valerie Traub (English and Women's Studies, University of Michigan)
- Carole S. Vance (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University)
Other Participants:
- Nancy Bentley (English, UPenn), Mark Butler (Music, Penn), Virginia Chang (Medicine and Sociology, Penn), David Eng (English, UPenn), Homay King (History of Art and Film Studies, Bryn Mawr), David Kurnick (English, Rutgers), Andrew Lamas (Urban Studies, Penn), Lázaro Lima (Latino Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Bryn Mawr), Heather Love (English, Penn), Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Romance Languages, Penn), Hoang Nguyen (English, Bryn Mawr), Kathy Peiss (History, Penn), Barbara Savage (History, Penn), Katherine Sender (Annenberg, Penn), Patricia White (English and Cinema Studies, Swarthmore)
Also:
- Performance by Matmos (Thursday at 8 p.m.)
- Screening and conversation with Abigail Child (Friday at 7:30 p.m.)
Sponsored by:
The Provost’s Office at the University of Pennsylvania, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania, the Mellon Foundation, the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the University Research Fund Conference Fund (Penn), the School of Arts and Sciences (Penn), Penn University Press, Graduate School of Education (Penn), the Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication (Penn), the Law School (Penn), English (Penn), Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Penn), History (Penn), History of Art (Penn), South Asia Studies (Penn), Music (Penn), Africana Studies (Penn), Latino and Latin American Studies Program (Penn), Asian American Studies Program (Penn), Anthropology (Penn), Cinema Studies Program (Penn), the South Asia Center (Penn), Romance Languages (Penn), the Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group (Penn English), Penn Women's Center, and the Poetics Working Group (Penn English).