QUEER SPECULATIONS THIRTEENTH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES IN LGBT STUDIES / SPRING 2015

Queerness has always been speculative, imagining and enacting forms of kinship, politics, gender, sex, and sociality that exceed the logics of assimilation.

PRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S STUDIES AND THE LGBT LECTURE SERIES PLANNING COMMITTEE

TAVIA NYONG’O“Deep Time, Dark Time: Kara Walker’s Anarchaeology”5 p.m., Thursday, March 12, 2015Francis Scott Key Hall 0106

Colloquium with Tavia Nyong’o12:30–2 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2015Taliaferro Hall 2110

Nyong’o is Associate Professor of Perfor-mance Studies at New York University. He writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies, queer studies, cultural theory, and cultural history. His first book, The Amalga-mation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (Minnesota, 2009), won the Errol Hill Award for best book in African American theatre and performance studies.

MIRANDA JOSEPH“Investing in the Cruel Entrepreneurial University”5 p.m., Wednesday, April 1, 2015Marie Mount Hall 1400

Joseph is Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She uses the tools of cultural studies to explore the relationship between economic processes and social formations. Her recently published book, Debt to Society: Accounting for Life Under Capitalism (Minnesota, 2014), explores modes of accounting (financial, juridical and managerial) as they are deployed to create, sustain and transform social relations.

RAMZI FAWAZ“Stepford Wives and Female Men: The Radical Differences of Female Replicants”SHANTÉ PARADIGM SMALLS “Superheroes, Queerness, and Anti-Blackness: Storm, Django, and Michael Brown”3 p.m., Friday, April 17, 2015Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall

Fawaz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the broader field of queer cultural politics, which includes the texts, practices, exchanges, and performances that articulate gay and lesbian literature and culture to American public life.

Smalls is Assistant Professor of English at St. John’s University. Her current research uses critical race theory, hip hop studies, and queer theory to consider how New York City hip hop music, visual art, and film offers “queer articu-lations” of race, gender, and sexuality.

NOTE: THIS IS THE PLENARY FOR THE DC QUEER STUDIES SYMPOSIUM, “QUEER SPECULATIONS,” APRIL 17, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.

JUANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ“Feeling Queerly, Knowing Otherwise”5 p.m., Friday, April 17, 2015Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall

Rodríguez is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of two books, Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU 2003) and Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (NYU 2014) and has published numerous articles related to her research interests in sexuality studies, queer activism in a transnational American context, critical race theory, technology and media arts, and Latin@ and Caribbean studies.

NOTE: THIS IS THE KEYNOTE FOR THE DC QUEER STUDIES SYMPOSIUM, “QUEER SPECULATIONS,” APRIL 17, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDQ&A and reception to follow each lecture. All events are free and

open to the public. For more information about lecture series events and the upcoming DC Queer Studies Symposium, please visit ter.ps/queerspec

Department of Women’s Studies2101 Woods Hall / 301.405.6827

CO-SPONSORS: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION / NATHAN AND JEANETTE MILLER CENTER FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES / DEPARTMENTS OF AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ENGLISH / ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM / LGBT EQUITY CENTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY / DEPARTMENTS OF AMERICAN STUDIES AND ENGLISH

What if? And what then? From the financial to the imaginative, acts of speculation shape 21st-century existence. Queerness has always been speculative, imagining and enacting forms of kinship, politics, gender, sex, and sociality that exceed the logics of assimilation. Join our invited speakers to speculate about queer bodies, technologies, feelings, pasts, futures, transformations, and worlds.

The 2015 lecture series marks the coming together of Women’s Studies and LGBT Studies at the University of Maryland, a moment to inspire creative speculation about possible futures for transformative knowledge production within the university.

Department of Women’s Studies

2101 Woods HallCollege Park, MD 20742

301.405.6827ter.ps/queerspec

QUEER SPECULATIONS THIRTEENTH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES IN LGBT STUDIES / SPRING 2015

PRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S STUDIES AND THE LGBT LECTURE SERIES PLANNING COMMITTEE