Plenary
Please note plenary Panel and Round Table below.
2010 Plenary
Queer Visibilities:
Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town
Andrew Tucker
Lecturer, Department of Geography,
University of Cambridge,
UK
Dr. Tucker’s research uses life story narratives, archival data and other ethnographic and historical resources to (in Jon Binnie’s words) “provide a theoretically sophisticated examination of the interconnected politics of class and race in the production of sexualized space within contemporary Cape Town.” His work joins other projects that show how North Atlantic assumptions about “the closet” and “outness” do not yield meaningful translations in other arenas of the global circuit. Dr. Tucker’s talk explores these themes, and asks us to think about what “queer” might mean in contexts where legacies of social inequality continue to upstage equal opportunities in sexual citizenship.
2010 Plenary Panel
Language, Performance and Invisibility:
African American LGBT Intersections of
Community, Religion, and Spirituality
Session organizer: Ellen Lewin
Professor, Department of Anthropology,
University of Iowa
The papers in this session examine how African-American LGBTQ people speak about their connections with elements of the larger Black communities with which they are a part. Of particular interest are African-American queer connections to religious institutions, and efforts to maintain continuity between sexuality and African-American spiritual traditions.
Panel participants include:
E. Patrick Johnson (Northwestern)
Mignon Moore (UCLA)
Johari Jabir (U Illinois–Chicago)
Ellen Lewin (U Iowa)
2010 Plenary Round Table
Engaging Queer Visibilities
The questions about visibility raised in Andrew Tucker’s plenary presentation are part of discussion that is unfolding in queer-related geography, sociology, anthropology, and related terrains. This roundtable engages those questions and applies them directly to conference interests” How will lavender language research be reshaped if visibility, outness, and public performance were not a cornerstone of linguistic assumption and description. How do researchers describe the discursive practices of same-sex identified “tacit subjects” (adapting Carlos Decena’s phrasing) ? How do those descriptions differ from descriptions of the discursive practices of the more visible, “out and proud” speaking subjects? Session format include an initial conversation between session participants and ample time for conversation with the audience.
Roundtable participants include:
Andrew Tucker (U Cambridge)
Carlos Ulises
Decena (Rutgers U)
Katie Acosta (Tulane U)
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (American U)
Bill Leap (American U)
