LGBTQ Studies Project
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer Studies Project (LGBTQ Studies Project) organizes research projects and conferences and provides fellowships to graduate students. It provides an interdisciplinary locus for Chicago faculty and graduate students who study the historical, cultural, and textual construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer identities, cultures, and politics; analyze those formations or the dominant culture and social theory from the perspective of queer theory.
Lauren Berlant, Director
Training New Scholars
Training the next generation of lesbian, gay, and queer studies scholars is central to the mission of the University of Chicago's LGBTQ Studies Project. Project faculty have advised graduate students in history, anthropology, English, East Asian studies, political science, human development, sociology, and other fields. These students are conducting original archival research, fieldwork, and critical textual analyses that will produce fundamental new knowledge and insights into contemporary debates over homosexuality and the historical development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other "queer" identities, cultures, and politics in a variety of cultural settings and historical periods. Students have studied and compared these processes around the world — in India, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada, as well as the United States. Supporting their work is crucial, since it will both advance our knowledge of sexuality and transgender issues and speed the integration of gay scholarship into the major disciplines and college teaching.
The LGBTQ Studies Project Lecture Series for 2011-2012 will feature some dynamic speakers from across the U.S. and abroad. Please join us for any of the following events:
November 10, 2011
Feminists, Queers, and the New Memoir — Julie Rak, University of Alberta and Anna Poletti, Monash University (Australia)
Life Gaming: Sims 3 as Personal Narrative — Julie Rak
Wanting Everything to Be Slippery and Audacious: Assemblage and Adaptation in Queer DIY Autobiography — Anne Poletti
February, 9, 2012
Distinguished CSGS Alumni Lecture (title TBA) — Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University
February 16, 2012
Homonationalism Gone Viral: Transmission, Affect, Assemblage — Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
March 29, 2012
Willful Queers: A Queer History of Will — Sara Ahmed, Goldsmith's College (UK)
April 26, 2012
Sex in the (DeIndustrial) City — Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan
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