Date: 10/30/2018
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Special Collections Seminar Room, E-2340
Description
Founded in 1977, the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) is the largest and most significant professional organization for the interdisciplinary field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. This November, the NWSA will hold their conference with the theme of “Just Imagine, Imagining Justice: Feminist Visions of Freedom, Dream Making, and the Radical Politics of Futures.” The week before the conference, Stony Brook graduate students and faculty will present lightning talks on their working papers at an NWSA Preview event. Co- sponsored by the department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality and the Library, the NWSA preview will showcase an exciting range of interdisciplinary feminist and queer scholarship, while also giving presenters the opportunity to workshop their ideas on campus before presenting at the NWSA.
Presenters include:
Rachel Corbman
Title: Seamoon’s House’s Radical Feminist Model of Psychological Disability and the Future of Feminist, Queer, and Disability Studies
Bio: Rachel Corbman is a PhD candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and an Andrew W. Mellon predoctoral fellow in women’s history at the New-York Historical Society. Her research has been published (or is forthcoming) in Feminist Formations, Continuum, GLQ, and Histoire sociale / Social History.
Description: This talk is interested in the relationship between progressive social movements in the late twentieth century. I analyze a series of unpublished essays by Margaret “Seamoon” House, an activist whose political commitments spanned the women’s, lesbian feminist, anti-psychiatry, and disability rights movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Valerie Moyer
Title: The Biopolitics of Women’s Sport: contesting categories and imagining a feminist future
Bio: Valerie Moyer is a third year PhD student in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Stony Brook University. She is interested in the categorization and surveillance of athlete’s bodies in athletics, specifically as it relates to trans* athletes and women with elevated testosterone level.
Description: My talk analyzes a BBC podcast in which women’s marathon world record holder, Paula Radcliffe discuss the policing of testosterone in women’s track and field at the professional level. Concerns over nationalism, race, and what constitutes unfair advantage come through in this interview, revealing the historical and ongoing instability of “women’s sport” as a category.
Joseph Pierce
Title: Catastrophes of the Human and Architectures of Emergence
Description: Joseph M. Pierce is on an American Studies Association roundtable that takes up the topic of the disastrous spatial and geographic/”geologic” violence of the Human and western man from different critical vantage points.
Bio: Joseph M. Pierce is Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on kinship, gender, sexuality, and race in Latin America, 19th century literature and culture, Indigenous studies, queer studies, and hemispheric approaches to citizenship and belonging. His book Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 is forthcoming from SUNYPress.
Jeffrey Santa Ana
Title: Queer Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Disremembering Place and Witnessing Imperial Debris in Han Ong’sThe Disinherited
Description: This talk aims to advance postcolonial ecocriticism’s engagements with memory studies and queer studies by examining Han Ong’s novel The Disinherited. Ong’s novel articulates a queer postcolonial ecocriticism that brings together postcolonial, ecological, and queer issues to challenge continuing imperialist modes of social dominance and environmental ruin in the Philippines.
Bio: Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and Associated Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He is the author of Racial Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion. He has research and teaching interests in human migration, postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, memory studies, and gender and sexuality.
This event is part of WGSS’ “brown bag” series. Co-planned by Rachel Corbman and Ashley Barry, the brown bags foster feminist and queer community across campus.
Registration
Bookings are closed for this event.
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