LGBT Studies sponsored six Sex and Scholarship Symposia, which took place annually over the years 1996 through 2001. These are listed chronologically below, beginning with most recent:

 

6th Annual Sex and Scholarship Symposium:
Collective Action: Working for Sexual, Racial and Economic Justice

March 9-10, 2001

 

Friday, March 9, 2001, 7:30 p.m.

Modern Languages Auditorium

 

Screening: OUT AT WORK: LESBIANS AND GAY MEN ON THE JOB

Discussion with filmmakers Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson, and KipuKai Kuali'i, President, Pride at Work (AFL-CIO)

 

Saturday, March 10, 2001

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Modern Languages Building, Room 311

 

Plenary Panel

Kitty Krupat, Co-editor of "Out Front: Lesbians, Gays and the Struggle for Workplace Rights," PhD candidate in American Studies at NYU and member, NYU Graduate Student Organizing committee (GSOC-UAW).

Isabel Garcia, Co-chair of Derechos Humanos, member of the Tucson Worker Rights Board and Director of the Pima County Legal Defender's Office.

Michael Warner, Professor of English, Rutgers University and author of the Trouble with Normal: sex, Politics and the Ethics of Queer Life.

Andrea Smith, Co-founder of the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations, former chair of the Women of Color Caucus of the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Phd candidate in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.

 

1-3 p.m., Modern Languages Building

Workshops

1) How Money Shapes Our Movements

2) Media Activism

3) Dealing with the Mainstream Media

4) State Violence and domestic Violence: Prisons, Border Militarization and violence Against Women

5) Labor and the Academy: Sweatshops, Graduate Student Unions and the Labor Movement

6) Sex and Freedom

 

 

5th Annual Sex and Scholarship Symposium:
The Future of Lesbian and Gay Studies

February 25, 2000, 3-6pm / Economics Bldg., 400 / Refreshments

 

This symposium examines the political, institutional and intellectual goals and strategies of Lesbian/Gay Studies. Speakers will discuss relationships between LGB Studies, Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies and between Scholarship and Activism. Speakers include:

 

• Henry Abelove, Professor of English, Wesleyan University: "Anti-Colonialism in New York City: Gay Liberation"
• Jill Dolan, Professor and Chair of Department of Theater and Dance, University of Texas, Austin and former Executive Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies: "Activists and Academics: Rethinking Modes of Knowledge Production"
• David Eng, Assistant Professor of English, Columbia University: "Out in the Global System: Rolling the Rs"
• Sharon P. Holland, Assistant Professor of English, Stanford University: "The Primal Scene and its Returns: Some Thoughts on Queer Death."

 

 

The 4th Ever-Fabulous Sex and Scholarship Symposium:
Mexican and Chicano Masculinities

Friday, February 26, 1999, 7-9pm / Free and open to the public

Center For English as a Second Language, Room 103 (1100 East North Campus Dr.)

Funded by the Arizona Humanities Council.

 

This symposium brings together important queer scholars from Mexico and the US to confront our stereotypes of the Macho. A panel will explore masculinity and sexuality in the Chicano movement, in small towns in Sonora and in popular Hollywood film. Panelists include:

 

• Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Ethnic Studies, University of California-San Diego. Distinguished historian and author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico,1500-1846

• Guilermo Nuñez Noriega, Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, A.C. Anthropologist.
• Adriana Estill, Spanish and Portuguese, UNM. Pop culture expert.

 

Panel moderated by:

• Charles Tatum, Dean, College of Humanities, UA

 

 

The 3rd Sex and Scholarship Symposium
February 28, 1998, 1-5pm

Center For English as a Second Language, Room 103 (1100 East North Campus Dr.)

 

Speakers:

• Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
• Wendy Brown, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Geeta Patel, Wellesley College

 

Closing comments:

Miranda Joseph and Janet Jakobsen, University of Arizona

 

 

2nd Annual Sex and Scholarship Symposium
Thursday, March 13, 1997, 6:30pm / Free / Refreshments provided

 

Speakers:

• Jose Munoz, New York University: "Rough Boy Trade: Queer Desire/Striaght Identity in the Work of Larry Clark"
• Vernon A. Rosario, University of Pennsylvania: "Why's a Good She-Male So Hard to Find: The Blossoming of Transsensuality"
• Amy Robinson, Stanford University on "Ethics and Performance: Identity Politics in the Academy."

 

Respondent:

Janet Jakobsen, University of Arizona (Women's Studies/Religious Studies)

 

 

1st Sex and Scholarship Symposium

1996