"Punks" @ 20: Revisiting Cathy Cohen’s Queer Coalitional Vision

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Participants : 
  • Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago
  • Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, English & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University
  • Jafari S. Allen, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami
  • Marlon M. Bailey, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University
  • Christina Hanhardt, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Event Date: 
September 18, 2017
Event Time: 
2:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100)
Event Accessibility : 
The main entrance to the North Building — off the Diag — is equipped with ramps and automated doors. The entrance to the South Building — off South University Avenue — also has automated doors. Patrons may easily move between buildings on the second floor. Gender neutral restrooms are available on the third through sixth floors of the library.
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LGQRI presents a symposium in tribute to and reconsideration of Cathy Cohen’s generative article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” Published in GLQ in 1997, Cohen’s piece articulated a queer of color critique that transformed the field.

(Full text available here: http://glq.dukejournals.org/content/3/4/437.full.pdf+html)

Schedule:

2:10 pm: Welcome and Introductions by Dean Hubbs, LGQRI Director

Panel Presentations:

  • Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
  • Jafari S. Allen
  • Marlon M. Bailey
  • Christina Hanhardt
4:00 pm: Roundtable Discussion with Guest of Honor, Cathy J. Cohen
Moderated by David Hutchinson, History PhD Student
 
Refreshments will be served.
 
Read the original article: "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" by Cathy J. Cohen (PDF).
 
Presented by IRWG's Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initative (LGQRI). Cosponsored by the Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative, Stamps School of Art & Design, Departments of English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Afroamerican and African Studies, Anthropology, and the Spectrum Center.
 
For more accessibility information or accommodations, please contact Heidi Bennett at heidiab@umich.edu or 734.647.6394.