McGill Queer Research Colloquium

CBC Radio coverage of McGill's Fourth Annual Queer Research Colloquium, and Queer History Month: Exploring Quebec's Queer History and Remembering the 'Gay Revolution' at McGill University.
 

The Fourth Annual McGill Queer Research Colloquium
Oct 24th - 25th, 2019

KEYNOTE: "Queering Social Reproduction" by Aren Z. Aizura (University of Minnesota) on Thursday, October 24^th 5PM - 6:30PM in Leacock 232. In partnership with the Climate Change series.

All panels are held in McLennan’s Research Commons Room A.

THURSDAY - OCTOBER 24^th

9:30: Welcome remarks

10:00-11:30. Panel 1: Health / Well being

-Kody Muncaster (Western), “Testing Gay Men for Hepatitis C: Findings from Bathhouse Hepatitis C Testing “
-Kyle Rubini (Western), “Queer Reflections on the 2018 Ontario Sex Ed Consultation”
-Dayna Prest (Western), “Sense of Place Among LGBTQ Folks in Perth County”

11:45-1:15. Panel 2: Negotiating violence

-Laurent Pineault (Université de Montréal), “Smartphones as Foucaldian Apparatuses: LGBTQ People’s Struggle for Visibility in Public Spaces”
-Laura Gallo Tapias (McGill), “Seeking Asylum as a Latin American Woman: an Attempt to Bring an Intersectional and Narrative Perspective to Refugee Mental Health Research”
-Jessica Whitehead (McGill), “A Systematic Review of the Service Navigation Experiences of LGBTQ+ Adults Exposed to Intimate Partner Abuse”
-Jacob Evoy (Western), “Holocaust Legacies, Homophobia, and the Second Generation: An Introduction to Oral Histories with LGBTQ+ Children of Holocaust Survivors”

1:15-2:00. Lunch

2:00-3:30. Panel 3: Decriminalization and activism

-Nicholas Lénart (UQAM), “Faggots, Forests, and Surveillance: Homophobic Policing in the So-called Province of Quebec (2007-present)”
-Shoshana Paget (Concordia), “Resistance & Reproduction: Interpellation and Accusation in Lawrence v. Texas”
-Brian Lewis (McGill), “The Legacy of Victorian Sex Laws: ‘Operation Spanner’ in Context”
-Clinton Glenn (McGill), “‘We are Propaganda’: The Canonisation of LGBT History and Culture and the Fight Against ‘Gay Propaganda’ in the Baltic States”

5PM. KEYNOTE Queering Social Reproduction - Aren Z. Aizura (University of Minnesota). In partnership with the Climate Change series. Leacock 232

FRIDAY – OCTOBER 25^th

9:30-11:00. Panel 4: Queer art / practice

-Amy Keating (Western), “Taking a Moment: Queer Minoritarian Belonging Through Art and Aesthetics”
-Ger Zielinski (Ryerson), “On Queer Ephemera and Anarchive in Contemporary Media Art”
-Steven Greenwood (McGill), “Gender, Homoeroticism, and Spring Awakening's Journey to Broadway”
-Sydney Sheedy (McGill), “‘Residue on the Cards’: Queer Progressive Occultism and Fantasies of Arrival”

11:15-12:45. Panel 5: Representation

-Linzey Corridon (Concordia), “‘You Better Step Your P***y Up’: Hyper-femininity, Laughter and Funny Bodies in Contemporary Drag Culture”
-Kyler Chittick (Queen’s), “AIDS and Its Forms, Or New Queer Cinema's Formal Affects”
-Juanita Marchand Knight (McGill), “Unpacking the Female Werewolf: Gender Semiotics in Bitten”
-Antoine Damiens (McGill), “‘It’s Like in French You Don’t Have a Word for Fun Either’ Reverberations and Translation in Soukaz and Hocquenghem’s Race d’Ep (1979) and Gérard’s History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself (2014)”

12:45-1:30. Lunch

1:30-3:00. Panel 6: Transnational queerness

-Benji Northwehr (McGill), “Dwelling in Difference: Wu Tsang’s Queer World-Making”
-Deeplina Banerjee (Western), “Love is Love- Exploring Representations of Queer Sexuality in Indian Cinema”
-Shawn Jones (Concordia), “Accessing Gay Porn in East Asia—Desires, Strategies, and Obstacles”
-Josh Marchesini (McGill), “Disorienting Women: Carmen in El Ambiente”

3:15-4:45. Panel 7. Texts/contexts

-Abhishek Tripathi (Nalanda University, India), “Ancient Texts of Hinduism and Jainism and Its projection of Gender(s): Theological, Social and Philosophical Perspective of Third Gender, Trittya Prakkritti”
-Zoe Shaw (McGill), “‘Wreath their Sacred Urn’: Anna Seward’s ‘Llangollen Vale’ and the Sapphic Elegy”
-Julien Vallières-Gingras (McGill) « Les voies de la Providence sont impénétrables, tandis que le reste... : réassignation sexuelle, satire et blasphème dans un roman québécois de l’ère duplessiste : précédé d’un portrait de l’auteur en danseur de ballet »
-Ashley Lanni (Concordia), “Ace in the Hole: A Non-punny Look at Asexuality in Fandom Spaces"