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Roundtable: Queer DisEmbodiments: Voice, Sexuality, Synchronization
Moderators
Karen Tongson is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, and the author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in Public Culture, Social Text, American Quarterly, GLQ, and Novel: A...
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Speakers JH
Jack Halberstam loves falsettos in men, women, and everyone else. Kate Bush is just the latest in a long line of falsetto-voiced singers (Sylvester, Prince, Maxwell, Antony Hegarty, Justin Timberlake, Thom Yorke) that Jack has obsessed over in the past few decades. What this means...
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Sarah Kessler is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the UC Irvine, where she is completing a dissertation on ventriloquism in contemporary popular culture. Her writing on art, film, and media has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, In These Times, the Journal of Popular Music...
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Uri McMillan is Assistant Professor of English, African American Studies, and Gender Studies at UCLA. He is the author of Embodied Avatars; Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance (NYU, 2015), the first full length study of Black women's performance art. He has published...
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Tavia Nyong’o is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He writes on art, music, politics, culture, and theory. His first book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (Minnesota, 2009), won the Errol Hill...
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Saturday April 16, 2016 3:45pm - 5:15pm PDT
JBL Theater