Mie Yim, mi-mi-do, 2004

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2005 Time: 3:30-7:30 PM Public Event: "What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?" Location: Rutgers University, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ New Brunswick, NJ | Map and Driving Directions

"What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?" This special issue of Social Text, edited by David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam, and José Esteban Muñoz, reassesses the political utility of queer. The contemporary mainstreaming of gay and lesbian identity—as a mass-mediated consumer lifestyle and embattled legal category—demands a renewed queer studies ever vigilant to the fact that sexuality is intersectional and that queer is a political metaphor without a fixed referent. Sixteen timely essays explore national and global crises of our day and broadly examine the limits of queer epistemology, the denaturalizing potentials of queer diasporas, and the emergence of what might be called queer liberalism. What does queer studies have to say about empire, globalization, sovereignty, and terrorism? What does it tell us about immigration, citizenship, prisons, welfare, mourning, and human rights?

Contributors:
Michael Cobb, Roderick A. Ferguson, Elizabeth Freeman, Gayatri Gopinath, Judith Halberstam, Janet R. Jakobsen, Joon Oluchi Lee, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Tavia Nyong’o, Hiram Perez, Jasbir K. Puar, Chandan Reddy, Teemu Ruskola, Nayan Shah, Karen Tongson, and Amy Villarejo.

Sponsors:
Social Text; Department of Women's & Gender Studies; Critical Sexualities Initiative; Department of English; Center for Cultural Analysis; Institute for Research on Women; Office of Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities; and Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science

Website:
http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/events/november.html