David Halperin, Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, English Language and Literature, Women’s Studies, and Classical Studies, University of Michigan
Benjamin Kahan, Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, Louisiana State University
Helmut Puff, Professor of History, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public.
9:00 a.m. grad panel: Biopolitical Assemblages and the Body
10:30 a.m. grad panel: Queer Modernist Poetics
1:00 p.m. rountable: Foucault’s Impact on Sexuality Studies with David Halperin, Benjamin Kahan, and Helmut Puff.
2:30 p.m. grad panel: Trans/national and Diasporic Queer Subjectivities
4:30 p.m. keynote: Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University) “The Sexuality of Philosophy” in Angell Hall 3154
Supported by: Rackham Graduate School, Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI), Critical Contemporary Studies, and U-M Departments of Anthropology, English, History, History of Art, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s Studies.
