[iDiversity] [QGrads] Queer + Public + Performance Inaugural Meeting

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Queer + Public + Performance
INAUGURAL MEETING
Monday, Oct 5 - 6:00 PM Communications 226

At this inaugural meeting, the group will open the floor to introductions of
attendees and their work.  Also on the agenda is charting the course for the
series of quarterly reading groups and tea times to be held throughout the year,
as well as beginning to answer one of the questions that speaks to the very
existence of a queer research collective such as this: To what extent and with
what investments is a queer public formed in and through queer performance and
the performance of queerness?

Q+P+P invites collaboration and coalition.  Please come with suggestions for: 1)
a reading you'd be interested in discussing at one of our reading groups, 2) an
idea for a tea time discussion, 3) a faculty member you know who would be
willing to participate in our teas, 4) on and off campus groups you think should
be a part of our "public," and 5) local performers and artists that might
embody, evoke, or complicate the work of the group.

Queer + Public + Performance is a working group that engages the intersection of
queer scholarship, performance, art, and technologies within the university and
beyond. The group intends to engage cross-disciplinary, crossplatform public
cultural and intellectual work. This year will focus specifically on queer
publics and counterpublics to explore the practices, projects, and lived
experiences situated on the peripheries of official publics. We hope to
emphasize the co-constitutive and at times antagonistic intersections between
“sex,” “gender,” “race,” “class,” and “nation” as we think
about how keywords such as “sexuality,” “intimacy,” “queer theory and
performance,” and “publicity” are constituted and complicated by changes
(both conservative and transgressive) in regional and global political,
economic, academic, and cultural interchanges.

For more information, go to http://queerpublicperformance.blogspot.com/ or
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/projects_0910_queer_public_performance.htm




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