“Queer Camaraderie” LGBTQ Studies Symposium
Glickman Auditorium CLA 1.302B The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United StatesTo celebrate the launch of LGBTQ Studies at UT, the program will host a symposium January 25 & 26, 2018 in CLA 1.302B. The symposium’s theme is "Queer Camaraderie" and will feature presentations and performances by Rod Ferguson & Lyndon Gill; Ernesto Martínez & Julie Minich; Josh Guzman & Chad Bennett; Xandra Ibarra (La Chica Boom) & Laura Gutiérrez; and Kim TallBear and Ann Cvetkovich. Symposium begins Thursday Jan 25, 6pm-9pm, and continues Jan 26 from 9am-6pm.
Biopolitics and Beyond: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, lecture and panel discussion
Arts Building W-215 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, CanadaFrom climate change, to pipeline protests and environmental justice movements, to conceptualizations of kinship with living and non-living beings, emerging scholarship from Indigenous Studies is broadening visions of how to live in the twenty-first century. This keynote lecture and panel discussion features scholars whose work is pushing the boundaries of science and technology studies through questions such as, how have [...]
Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming: #IdleNoMore, #BlackLivesMatter, and #NoDAPL
Strong Hall 1621 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN, United StatesAbstract: In this talk, I examine the caretaking of relations that I see embodied in several recent social movements led by women, two-spirit, and queer people. #IdleNoMore, #NoDAPL, and #BlackLivesMatter are commonly understood as environmental and/or social justice/anti-racist movements that call settler-colonial states, including the US and Canada, to make good on their treaty promises or [...]
Futures of Symbiotic Assemblages: Multi-naturalism, Monoculture Resistance and “The Permanent Decolonization of Thought”
Wiesner Building e15-001, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn the age of post-truth, peak oil, alternative facts, and the alternative right, it has never been more urgent to defend the need for the coexistence of other, alternative vantage points – of species, of time, of traditions, of beings.