Thursday, September 18th

3401 Dwinelle Hall
5 pm

Mark Casey
University of Newcastle, England
School of Geography, Sociology & Politics

Lesbians and Gay Men's Experiences of Queer Spaces
Under the Growing Gaze of
"take a peek straights"


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Thursday, September 25th - Friday, September 26th
The 1970s, Before and After:



Thursday, September 25th

370 Dwinelle Hall
8 pm

George Chauncey
University of Chicago

Why "Come Out of the Closet"?
Ambiguity, Authenticity, and the Shifting Boundaries
of the Public and Private Self from the 1950s to the 1970s


Respondent: Michael Lucey, French and Comparative Literature

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Friday, September 26th

370 Dwinelle Hall
10 am

Joan Scott
Institute for Advanced Study

French Universalism in the 1990s


Respondent: Tyler Stovall, History

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Friday, September 26th

370 Dwinelle Hall
Noon

Didier Eribon
Paris, France & UC Berkeley

Toward an Ethic of Subjectivation:
French Resistances to Psychoanalysis in the 1970s


Respondent: Judith Butler, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature

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Friday, September 26th

2 pm

Conference Roundtable

All Conference speakers and respondents


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Conference Co-Sponsors: University of California Humanities Research Institute; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; Dean of the Arts and Humanities, Dean of the Social Sciences, English Department, Rhetoric Department, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Center for Race and Gender
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Thursday, November 13th

315 Wheeler Hall ("Maude Fife Room")
5.00pm

Heather K. Love
University of Pennsylvania, Department of English

"Emotional Rescue"

Heather K. Love is Assistant Professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of English.  Her areas of specialization include late-nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, gender studies, and critical theory. She has published in Journal of Lesbian Studies, Transition: An International Review, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and has work forthcoming in New Literary History, GLQ, and Feminist Theory. She is currently working on a book called 'Feeling Backward: Affect, Politics, and the Making of Queer History.'
Respondent: Chris Nealon, English

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