lgqri

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: Queering Literary History

10:30 a.m. grad panel: Sexological and Erotic Identities

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.

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.

2:00 p.m. rountable: Queer Temporalities, Histories, Futures, with Ingrid Diran, Sarah Ensor, Heather Love, Marcia Ochoa

3:30 p.m. grad panel: Neoliberal Affects: Regret, Pleasure, and Altruism

LGQRI lecture by Trevor Hoppe, exploring how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigating the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease.  

Join LGQRI in celebrating Esther Newton’s forthcoming memoir. Gayle Rubin, Holly Hughes, and Clare Croft will provide commentary.

This symposium brings together global scholars, activists, and media producers who address contemporary representations of LGBTQ people on television. How have queer images changed in the past ten years? What difference do new distribution channels -- YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime -- make to sexual diversity in shows? How does LGBTQ television content migrate around the globe? And what are the ongoing limits of queer representation?

NEW PRODUCTION CULTURES
4 - 5:30 PM

Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern University

Eve Ng, Ohio University

In this public lecture, Professor C. Riley Snorton (Cornell University) attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable.

Scott Larson speaks on early Evangelical cultures in the 18th century and their embrace of a tone of sensation and expression that transformed gender in revival spaces and devotional practices.

As of Jan 31, this event has been canceled.

Vibrator Nation author Lynn Comella draws from her recently published book about the history of feminist and queer-run sex-toy stores to discuss the possibilities and pitfalls of queer capitalism.