Symposium at UCSD organized by the
Transnational Queer and Transgender Studies Working Group

Friday April 22 1-6 p.m. &Saturday April 23 9:30-5 p.m.
UCSD, Dolores Huerta Room, Student Center Expansion

TRANS/BORDER Exhibition opening at 5:45pm Friday
Visual Arts Facility Performance Space and Pendergrast Gallery, between Pepper Canyon Hall and Warren College

RNQPS Symposium Schedule (PDF)

Themes

1) Racialization/Nationalisms and Queer and Trans Studies

2) Queer Publics/Queer Privates and the challenges of neoliberalism/privatization of the commons

2) Sustainability and Defiance in Queer and Trans Politics and Culture

4) Securitization, militarization and queer interventions

5) Queer of Color Critique and Action and the Revolutions in North Africa

Invited speakers include Jasbir Puar (Rutgers), Paul Amar (UCSB) Chandan Reddy (UW-Seattle), Paola Baccheta (UCB),Jin Haritaworn,(SOAS/LSE), Eng-beng Lim (Brown)

UCSD participants include Patrick Anderson, Toby Beauchamp, Micha Cárdenas Fatima El-Tayeb, Todd Henry, Roshanak Khesti, Meg Wesling, Nayan Shah,

The symposium will include 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