Calendar Event

February 02, 2012, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

HC Dissertation Fellows Symposium

Organizer: SOUMITREE GUPTA, 20111-12 HC Dissertation Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Women’s and Gender Studies

Intimate Landscapes: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions of the Region

Public Lecture by Gayatri Gopinath / Associate Professor and Director of the A/P/A Studies Program, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

 Thursday, February 2, 4:00 p.m. Peter Graham Scholarly Room 114, SU Library

Breakfast and Conversation with Gayatri Gopinath on Queer Transnational Pedagogy

Respondents: T. Jackie Cuevas and Himika Bhattacharya (Women’s and Gender Studies)

Chair: Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Friday, February 3, 9:00 a.m. Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304

Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor and Director of the A/P/A Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.  She is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005), and has published articles on gender, sexuality and South Asian diasporic culture in numerous anthologies and in journals such as GLQ, Social Text, positions, and Diaspora. She is currently at work on a new project on critical regionalities and queer diasporic visual culture. Her recent book chapters related to this project include: “Who’s Your Daddy? Queer Diasporic Reframings of the Region,” in The Sun Never Sets: South Asians in the Age of US Empire, eds. Vivek Bald et al, (NYU Press, forthcoming); “Archive, Affect and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions” in Political Emotions, eds. Ann Cvetkovich et al (Routledge 2010) and “Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Sancharram,” in The Blackwell Companion to LGBT Studies, edited by Molly McGarry and George Haggerty (Blackwell, 2007).

CO-SPONSORS: Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the LGBT Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences; South Asia Center at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs