BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200306T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200306T180000 DTSTAMP:20200306T211027Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/queer-directions-queer-futures/ SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Queer Directions: Queer Futures DESCRIPTION:Due to a complicated procession of unexpected events\, we are s orry to announce the cancellation of this year’s Queer Directions Sympos ium—“Queer Futures”—on March 6.  We tried the best we could to ke ep the event afloat\, but that has become impossible.  We are working har d to bring the speakers to the Bonham Centre in the future.  Please accep t our sincere apologies.\n \;\n\nThe Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversit y Studies invites you to join us for the fourth annual Queer Directions Sy mposium! This year’s event is entitled Queer Futures with guest speakers Kara Keeling\, Kadji Amin\, Qwo-Li Driskill\, and Aimee Bahng. It will be held on March 6\, 4 - 6PM in the Jackman Law Building\, Bennett Hall P120 . This event is free and open to the public.\n\n---\nKara Keeling is Assoc iate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the Univer sity of Chicago. Keeling’s research focuses on African American film\, t heories of race\, sexuality\, and gender in cinema and media\, black and q ueer cultural politics\, and digital media. Keeling’s first book\, The W itch’s Flight: The Cinematic\, the Black Femme\, and the Image of Common Sense (Duke University Press\, 2007)\, explores the role of cinematic ima ges in the construction and maintenance of hegemonic conceptions of the wo rld and interrogates the complex relationships between cinematic visibilit y\, minority politics\, and the labour required to create and maintain alt ernative organizations of social life. Her second book\, Queer Times\, Bla ck Futures (New York University Press\, 2019)\, considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination\, technology\, futurity\, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism and explores how the specu lative fictions of cinema\, music\, and literature that center black exist ence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds\, queer and otherwise.\n\nKadji Amin is Assistant Professor and Director of Gradu ate Studies in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Emory Univers ity. His book\, Disturbing Attachments: Genet\, Modern Pederasty\, and Que er History (Duke University Press\, 2017)\, “de-idealizes” Jean Genet ’s coalitional politics with the Black Panthers and the Palestinians by foregrounding their animation by unsavory and outdated modes of attachment \, including pederasty\, racial fetishism\, nostalgia for prison\, and fan tasies of queer terrorism. His research\, which focuses on the disorientin g effects of the queer and transgender past on politicized fields of schol arship\, is published or forthcoming in GLQ\, Transgender Studies Quarterl y\, Feminist Formations\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, among others.\n\nQ wo-Li Driskill is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Women\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State Uni versity. They are the author of Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spir it Memory (University of Arizona Press\, 2016) and Walking with Ghosts: Po ems (Salt Publishing\, 2005). They are also co-editor of two collections: Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature and Queer Indigen ous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory\, Politics\, and Literature\ , a collection of critical essays with Indigenous-centered approaches to u nderstanding gay\, lesbian\, bisexual\, transgender\, queer\, and Two-Spir it lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies.\n\nAimee Bahng is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Wom en’s Studies at Pomona College. Winner of the Science Fiction and Techno culture Studies Book Prize\, her first monograph Migrant Futures: Decoloni zing Speculation in Financial Times (Duke University Press\, 2018) traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of specul ative finance against those of speculative fiction. Professor Bahng serves on the GLQ Caucus for the Modern Language Association and the Queer/Trans (Q/T) Caucus of the American Studies Association. She is co-editor of the “Transpacific Futurities" special issue of Journal of Asian American St udies (2017) and has published articles on transnational Asian/American sp eculative fiction and financialization in Journal of American Studies\, Te chno-Orientalism\, (Rutgers University Press\, 2015)\, and MELUS. Her seco nd book\, Transpacific Ecologies\, is currently underway\, bringing decolo nial\, queer and feminist thought to bear on the environment\, knowledge p roduction\, and dis/ability at the site of the Pacific Ocean. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Queer -Futures-Cancelled-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR