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Workshops and themes
• A Queer Method: Reading one book object
through the lens of another
<Workshop 1, Tuesday 10 March>
“A Queer Method” is inspired by the conference hosted at the University
of Pennsylvania 31 October and 1 November 2013:
http://queermethod.tumblr.com The
conference took context as its focus, “examining not what the subject of queer
theory should be, but rather how its work has been and might be done” …“and to
ask what it means to understand queer work as having a method, or to imagine
method itself as queer.” (Katie was a speaker at this conference and you can
see her talk online here: http://fembooo.blogspot.com/p/slides-and-handout.html
)
For our A Queer Method workshop you will create either a ten-page paper
(with enough handouts for each member of the class: 22 folks) or a research
poster (and document it with digital pics): which one determined by lot in
class 24 February. You may work on these individually or with a collaborator.
For each of these possibilities
you will explore two class texts carefully, and chose EITHER • to analyze
Gessen’s book through the analysis (eyes, lens, perspective, tools) of
Paoletti’s Pink & Blue with its
multi-linear histories and causes; OR • to analyze Paoletti’s book through the
analysis (eyes, lens, perspective, tools) of Gessen’s Gay Propaganda’s interviews of people trying to figure out how to
deal with changing legal and social systems. • Paoletti’s book explores material
culture and meanings over time and generation. NOTICE what it demonstrates and
assumes about how time works, which social movements matter, and how worlds are
connected across differences. • Gessen’s collection of interviews explores how
uneven gay experiences are in Russia, challenges US assumptions about the
politics of gay marriage, and alters US analysis of the state’s protection
of children. NOTICE who is addressed in these books, and why? No matter which
of these approaches you take, also NOTICE that you will need to do some
additional research. You will have already begun this by looking online for
information about the authors, conditions in Russia, reviews of books, and
anything else. Always make a point of connecting projects to class readings and
activities.
• Identify a theme from the book that most
captures your imagination, interconnect it with ideas from the other, and
• share in either poster or written analysis why it matters for lesbians in
various communities. ALWAYS make a
point of connecting projects to class readings, activities, and discussions.
ALWAYS use a standard model for citation and bibliography, even on posters.
We will meet during the first
half of class time on 10 March to share our projects, displaying posters and
handouts on the walls of our room, walk and talk one-on-one with each other,
share questions, observations, excitements! After the break, we will continue
to work with the energy generated by sharing with each other, collectively
coming up with reflective analysis and more ideas for what comes next!
Full credit for this assignment requires: • having begun work two weeks ahead of time, • writing
and postering in several drafts, • displaying paper & handout or poster and
• actively participating, • turning in electronic copies of poster pics or
paper and handout to Katie’s gmail account by the evening of Friday of the week
of the workshop (you are allowed to revise anything during that week, but what
you bring in on Tuesday should still be
like a final version and complete), • and documenting each piece of the
assignment as completed in your logbook, which must be turned in electronically
with everything else by the evening of Friday for credit. If for any reason
whatsoever you miss any piece of this, you will need to document that in your
logbook, with explanations, and perhaps notes of any discussions you have with
Katie about it all. If you miss any part
of the workshop, you will need to arrange with three fellow students your
own little mini-workshop, where you all meet together outside class to share
your work and discuss it, and you write a two-page report on your meeting and
discussion.
• Queer Speculations & Lesbian Kin:
analyze a text with tools from the LGBT lecture series
<Workshop 2, Tuesday 14 April>
“Queer Speculations & Lesbian Kin” is inspired by the multi-year UMD LGBT program’s
Spring lecture series and the Queer Studies Symposium. This year’s Thirteenth
Annual Series’ theme is Queer Speculations. “What if? And what then? The time and space of gender, sexuality, race,
and empire are shaped by acts of speculation…that invent, theorize, imagine,
and enact different kinds of worlds…. This year’s lecture series invites you to
join discussions about the speculation about queer bodies, objects, feelings,
pasts, futures, utopias, dystopias, and transformations….” More information about the series online here: http://lgbts.umd.edu/lectureseries.html
For our Queer Speculations & Lesbian Kin workshop you will create
either a ten-page paper (with enough handouts for each member of the class: 22
folks) or a research poster (and document it with digital pics): which one
determined by lot in class 24 February. (If you did one for workshop 1 you will
do the other for workshop 2.) You may work on these individually or with a collaborator.
For each of these possibilities
you will explore class readings and LGBT lecture series presentations together
carefully, and chose which text to analyze with the tools from particular
lectures and discussion. EITHER • a chapter of Rodríguez’ book, OR
• an article you choose from either Transgender Studies Quarterly OR
Sinister Wisdom at any point in their publication history. Whichever text you
choose, you will explicitly discuss HOW YOU USE the tools, perspective,
methods, lens, ideas you glean from the presentation or lecture of one of the
two people presenting as part of the LGBT Series in March, before our workshop
convenes. You will attend at least one of these events in order to note the
concerns, themes, understandings, and approaches of EITHER Tavia Nyong’o (two
possible events to go to) OR Miranda Joseph. (If for any reason you cannot
attend one of these events, you will need to talk to Katie about the extra work
required to substitute one of the author visits to our class.)
TAVIA NYONG’O, "Deep Time, Dark Time: Kara
Walker’s Anarchaeology"
> Thursday, March 12, 2015;
5pm at Francis Scott Key Hall 0106
> Friday, March 13, 2015
Colloquium with Tavia Nyong’o; 12:30pm-2pm at Taliaferro Hall 2110
Tavia Nyong’o is Associate
Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. He writes, researches
and teaches critical black studies, queer studies, cultural theory, and
cultural history. His first book, The Amalgamation 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. Nyong’o has published
articles on punk, disco, viral media, the African diaspora, film, and
performance art in venues such as Radical History Review, Criticism, TDR: The
Journal of Performance Studies, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist
Theory, Women Studies Quarterly, The Nation, and n+1. He is the co-editor of
Social Text.
MIRANDA JOSEPH, “Investing in the Cruel Entrepreneurial
University”
> Wednesday, April 1, 2015;
5pm at Marie Mount Hall 1400
Miranda 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 various modes of accounting (financial, juridical
and managerial) as they are deployed to create, sustain and transform social
relations. Joseph has also published a series of essays, drawing on her
institutional leadership experiences, addressing the projects of Women’s
Studies, LGBT Studies and Ethnic Studies in journals such as GLQ, Feminist
Formations, and Social Politics. Her first book, Against the Romance of
Community (Minnesota, 2002) describes the mutually constitutive relationship
between community and capitalism.
No matter which of these
approaches you take, also NOTICE that you will need to do some additional research
to locate articles from either journal, and to learn who authors and lecturers are
and more about their work. Always make a point of connecting projects to class
readings and activities.
• Identify a theme from one of the texts as it
most captures your imagination, interconnect it with ideas from the lecturers,
and • share in either poster or written analysis why it matters for
lesbians in various communities.
ALWAYS make a point of connecting projects to class readings, activities, and
discussions. ALWAYS use a standard model for citation and bibliography, even on
posters.
We will meet during the first
half of class time on 14 April to share our projects, displaying posters and
handouts on the walls of our room, walk and talk one-on-one with each other,
share questions, observations, excitements! After the break, we will continue
to work with the energy generated by sharing with each other, collectively
coming up with reflective analysis and more ideas for what comes next!
Full credit for this assignment requires: • having begun work at least two weeks ahead of time, •
writing and postering in several drafts, • displaying paper & handout or
poster and • actively participating, • turning in electronic copies of poster
pics or paper and handout to Katie’s gmail account by the evening of Friday of
the week of the workshop (you are allowed to revise anything during that week,
but what you bring in on Tuesday should
still be like a final version and complete), • and documenting each piece
of the assignment as completed in your logbook, which must be turned in
electronically with everything else by the evening of Friday for credit. If for
any reason whatsoever you miss any piece of this, you will need to document
that in your logbook, with explanations, and perhaps notes of any discussions
you have with Katie about it all. If you
miss any part of the workshop, you will need to arrange with three fellow
students your own little mini-workshop, where you all meet together outside
class to share your work and discuss it, and you write a two-page report on
your meeting and discussion.
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