The Queer Studies Working Group will be meeting throughout the summer.

–On Tuesday, June 12, 2:30-4 pm (place TBA), we’ll meet to discuss <em>Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz (NYU P, 2009).

–On Monday, July 9, 2:30-4 pm (place TBA), we’ll meet to discuss Out Here: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VI, ed. Yorick Smaal and Graham Willett (Monash UP, 2011).

–On Tuesday, August 7, 2:30-4 pm (place TBA), we’ll meet to discuss The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam (Duke UP, 2011).

Please contact Dan or Krista if you have any questions.

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at 3 pm in Glasscock rm. 308 to discuss plans for the summer and next school year. Please join us!

Dr. Roderick Ferguson will be speaking on “The Proliferation of Minority Difference” on Monday, April 23, 2012, 12:00-1:30 in 410 Rudder Tower. This event is sponsored by the Racial and Ethnic Studies Institute, as part of the 2011-2012 Colloquium Series at Texas A&M University. This public lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Queer Studies Working Group.

On April 10, 2012, the Queer Studies Working Group and Early Modern Studies Working Group will meet in Glasscock rm. 311 at 3 pm to discuss selections from Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (ed. Madhavi Menon, Duke UP, 2011): “Introduction: Queer Shakes” by Madhavi Menon (pp. 1-27); “Milk” by Heather Love (pp. 201-8); “Othello’s Penis: Or, Islam in the Closet” by Daniel Boyarin (pp. 254-62); and “Forgetting The Tempest” by Kevin Ohi (pp. 351-60).

For an electronic copy of the selections, e-mail Krista.

The Race, Ethnicity and Migration faculty research cluster in the History Department has arranged for Nayan Shah, Associate Professor of History at UC-Davis and author of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (UC Press, 2011) and Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (UC Press, 2012), to visit campus on Monday, March 19th. He will be presenting a public lecture, “Stranger Intimacy and Unsettling History” at 4:00PM that day in the Evans Annex, Room 410. He also will be available to meet with the South Asia Working Group and any interested members of the Queer Studies Working Group at 12:00PM that day in Glasscock 311 for an informal talk over lunch. If you would like to attend the lunch meeting, please contact Rebecca Schloss by Thursday, March 15.

Click here to download a flyer for this lecture.

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet on Tuesday, February 28, 4:00-5:30 pm, in Glasscock rm. 311 to discuss Dan Humphrey’s work-in-progress, “Covert Homosexual Content? Amici per la pelle‘s Queer Fans.” For a copy of the paper, e-mail Krista.

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 4-5:30 pm, in Glasscock rm. 311 to discuss “What Does It Mean To Be an Aggie? The Role of the University in Supporting Sexual Diversity at Texas A&M” by QSWG member Dana Sayre, an MA student in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M. To request a copy of the reading, contact Krista.

The Queer Studies Working Group will meet on Wed., December 7, 3-4 pm, in Glasscock rm. 300, to discuss plans for spring 2012.

On Friday, November 18, the Women’s and Gender Studies Working Group is hosting a lunch colloquium featuring Dr. Ann Cvetkovich, the Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Cvetkovich will be speaking on “The Queer Art of the Counterarchive” in Glasscock rm. 311, 12:30-1:30. Seating is limited. Please RSVP to Nancy Sumpter by noon on Thursday, November 17, to reserve your space and a portion of pizza.

From 2 pm until 3 pm on November 18, Dr. Cvetkovich will be meeting with the Queer Studies Working Group in Glasscock rm. 311.

Dr. Cvetkovich is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures.

The Queer Studies Working Group is co-sponsoring Mark Rifkin’s visit to TAMU on Wednesday, November 9. Rifkin is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

In preparation for his visit, we’ll be joining the Indigenous Studies Working Group and Africana Studies Working Group for a discussion of Rifkin’s When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty (Oxford UP, 2010) on Friday, November 4, 9-10:30 am, in Glasscock rm. 311.

On Wednesday, November 9, 1:00p.m.-4:00 pm in the Mayo/Thomas room of Cushing Library, Professor Rifkin will give a public lecture and discussion on “When Did Indians Become Straight?” This lecture and discussion are free and open to the public.