Transnational Queer & Transgender Studies Research and Curriculum Development Working Group
Todd Henry
History
UC San Diego
Nayan Shah
History
UC San Diego
Participants
Paul Amar
Global Stuides
UC Santa Barbara
Patrick Anderson
Communication
UC San Deigo
Paola Baccheta
Gender and Women's Studies
UC Berkeley
Toby Beauchamp
Gender and Women's Studies
UC San Diego
Micha Cardenas
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
Fatima El-Tayeb
Literature
UC San Diego
Jin Haritaworn
Transnational Gender Studies
London School of Economics
Todd Henry
History
UC San Diego
Roshanak Khesti
Ethnic Studies
UC San Diego
Eng-beng Lim
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Brown University
Jasbir Puar
Women and Gender Studies
Rutgers University
Chandan Reddy
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
University of Washington
Nayan Shah
Critical Gender Studies
UC San Diego
Meg Wesling
Literature
UC San Diego
“Racialization, Neoliberalism and Queer Public Spheres” was a symposium at UC San Diego organized by the Transnational Queer and Transgender Studies Working Group.The themes explored were: Racialization/Nationalisms and Queer and Trans Studies, Queer Publics/Queer Privates and the challenges of neoliberalism/privatization of the commons, Sustainability and Defiance in Queer and Trans Politics and Culture, Securitization, militarization and queer interventions, Queer of Color Critique and Action, and the Revolutions in North Africa.
Invited speakers included Jasbir Puar (Rutgers), Paul Amar (UCSB) Chandan Reddy (UW-Seattle), Paola Baccheta (UCB), Jin Haritaworn,(SOAS/LSE), Eng-beng Lim (Brown). UCSD participants included Patrick Anderson, Toby Beauchamp, Micha Cárdenas Fatima El-Tayeb, Todd Henry, Roshanak Khesti, Meg Wesling, Nayan Shah. The symposium included the art show TRANS/BORDER curated by Micha Cárdenas, in the Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, with the support of the UCSD Visual Arts Department. Featuring artwork by Tara Mateik, Elle Mehrmand, Aaron Guerrero, Angelica Aguilar, Eleanor Featherby, Chris Gauthier, David Kim, Gerald Manoos, Uyen Pham, Mina Rahnema, and Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0.
