“Disciplining Sexuality, Unruly Performances” Conference
Event Date: Friday, May 27th, 2011
Time: 10:30 AM – 6:30 PM
Location: Memorial Union and Wright Hall
Please join us for the 2011 Queer, Feminist, and Transgender Studies Conference, “Disciplining Sexuality, Unruly Performances,” which will feature undergraduate and graduate students from UC Davis. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Deborah Vargas, Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
10:30-Noon
Panel 1: Gendered Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
Moderator: Dr. Emilio Bejél
Ryan Tripp: Slavery of the Sachemship: Narragansett Duality in Peace and War, 1622-76
Emily Kuffner: Imagining America: Columbus’ First Letter to Spain and the Feminization of Landscape
Cecilio Cooper: “I Have Such Doubts”: Queer Suffering and the Neo- Slave Child”
Molly Ball: Early-ish Modern Negativity: Fantomina and Love in Excess as (Pre)Incarnations of the Antisocial Thesis
1:00-2:15
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Deborah Vargas, Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine
“Borderland Ballads, Bullets, and Besos”
This presentation focuses on Chicana singer Chelo Silva, nicknamed “la reina Tejana del bolero (the TexMex queen of the bolero),” who performed during the 1940s to 1960s. Drawing from feminist queer studies, Vargas argues that Silva is a musically dissonant figure who provides alternative “border ballads” that have remained in the echoes of dominant heteromasculinist narratives of Chicano corrido music.
Deborah R. Vargas is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Vargas has published in a number of different journals and anthologies including Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies and has conducted oral histories with several Chicana singers for the Smithsonian Institution Latino Music Oral History Project. Her monograph Dissonant Divas: Mejicanas, Music, Nation is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in 2012. She is the recipient of a number of fellowships including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and most recently a University of California Center for New Racial Studies grant to support her current research addressing Mexicana/Tejana racialized sexuality in the social-musical space of the fandango in the Southwest during the 19th century.
2:30-3:30
Concurrent Sessions:
Workshop: Undisciplining Sex Education and Gender Performance
Fielder Room, MU
Cory Dostie: Performativity and Transgender Subjects
Rachel Messer: The Psychic Dick: Potent Possibilities
Carolina Ibarra-Mendoza: High School Latinas and Sex Education
Ashley Scarborough: Categories of Risk in Maternal and Child Health
Discussion: Teaching Gender and Sexuality Across the Disciplines
King Lounge
Dr. Deborah Vargas, Chicano/Latino Studies
Danielle McManus, English
Isabel Porras, Cultural Studies
Elizabeth Skwiot, Comparative Literature
3:45-4:45
Panel 2: Negotiating Hetero/Homonormativity Within State Apparatuses
Moderator: Dr. Kathleen Frederickson
Pearl Chaozon-Bauer: The Epithalamium: A Subversive Space for Rethinking Marriage
Jordan Pascoe: Marriage in Decolonial African Thought
Desiree Alaniz: Social Movements and the State: Gay and Lesbian Subjectivity in the Post-War United States
Laboratory A, Wright 101
5:30-6:30
Queer of Color Performance
Fayza Bundalli
Cecilio Stephanie Cooper
Redwolf Painter
Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler
This event is sponsored by the UC Davis Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, and the Post Colonial Research Cluster.
For more information please contact: http://qftcluster.ucdavis.edu, qftcluster@gmail.com
