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The Precarious University

February 6 through April 9, 2012

What are some of the key questions currently being raised by scholars working at the intersection or cognates of global studies, critical theory, performance, ethnic, American, literary, area, anthropological, media and queer studies? In this series of lectures, we bring together some of the best minds in our collective fields to consider some of the most pressing issues driving their work as primarily queer scholars of color, as well as feminists and transnational thinkers. Moving beyond disciplinary questions, the lecture series seeks to understand what common stakes we hold or can hold as a progressive, intellectual community in the midst of massive upheavals in the U.S. and around the world.

Schedule of Speakers

 

Monday, February 6, 4-5pm, Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Creative Arts Center. A reception follows the talk.

The Queer Ethic and the Spirit of Normativity: Neocolonialism in the History of Sexuality

Roderick Ferguson, Associate Professor, Race and Critical Theory, and Chair, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota.

With an introduction by Corey Walker, Chair Africana Studies, Brown University

Monday, February 13, 4-5pm, Smith-Buonanno, Room 106. A reception follows the talk.

Fabulosity And Precarity:Queer Embodied Struggles In Immigrant Quotidian Lives

Martin F. Manalansan IV, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, LAS Global Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Introduction by Daniel Kim, Associate Professor of English, Brown University

Monday, March 5, 4-5pm, Granoff Creative Arts Center, Studio 3.

Precarity after Rights: On Queer of Color Critique

Chandan Reddy, Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. 

Introduction by Naoko Shibusawa, Associate Professor of History, Brown University

 

Monday, March 12, 4-5pm. Smith-Buonanno, 106. A reception follows the talk.

Bedding the Horizontal: Entertaining Pleasure in the Permanent Present

Sue-Ellen Case, Distinguished Professor and Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance Studies
Director, UCLA Center for Performance Studies University of California, Los Angeles

Introduction by Rebecca Schneider, Chair, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University

 

Thursday, March 22, noon-2pm, Lyman Hall, room 211. A reception follows the talk.

'Always True to You Darlin' in My Fashion:' Fidelity, Disciplinarity, Musicality.

Karen Tongson, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California

 

Monday, April 9, 4-5pm. Smith-Buonanno, 106. A reception follows the talk.

Reparations and the Human

David Eng, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Introduction by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, and Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Research Fellow, Pembroke Center, Brown University