Queer Studies Graduate Symposium considers a transnational approach

“Queer Mobility, Queer Citizenship” is the topic of this year’s Queer Studies Graduate Symposium, a two-day program that is free and open to the public.

The symposium begins the night of May 28 with a video art screening and discussion featuring the Bay Area’s mónica enríquez-enríquez.

The May 29 program, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in MU II at the Memorial Union, comprises two speakers and four graduate student panels.

“The symposium addresses the importance of a transnational approach within queer studies,” said Cynthia C. Degnan, a doctoral candidate in English, and symposium co-chair with Abigail Boggs, a doctoral candidate in cultural studies.

“The presentations demonstrate the ways that gender and sexuality are tied to racial and national identities, and use that understanding to rethink questions of travel, im/migration, displacement, asylum and citizenship status.”

The panel topics are “Affect, Displacement and Belonging”; “Mobile Economies of Desire”; “Producing Terror, Tracking Bodies”; and “Circulating Rights, Fixing Citizenship.”

The speakers:

• Featured — Debanuj DasGupta: “Desiring Legality — Centering Strug-gles of Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual and Transgender Immigrants Within the LGBT Movement and Its Potential to Disrupt ‘Homonormative’ Tropes of Legal Equality,” 10:15 a.m.

• Keynote — Siobhan Somerville: “Civil Rites — Naturalization, Imperialism and the Production of U.S. Citizenship,” 2:45 p.m.

More information: queersymposium.org

‘Imperial Academy-Neoliberal University’

The Davis Humanities Institute Cluster on Engaged Scholarship announced a May 30 symposium: “The Imperial Academy-Neoliberal University.”

It is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University Club, with admission free and open to the public.

The program comprises two panels: “U.S. University and Issues of Militarization, Occupation and Imperialism,” and “Art and Resistance.”

Also planned is a screening of the video Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers and the Service Sector.

More information: dhi.ucdavis.edu/?p=1370

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