Queer Theory Workshop

The Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School presents:

Queer Theory Workshop: Theory Meets Practice

The Workshop will take up a series of cutting edge issues in the theory and practice of Queer Theory, bringing together theorists, activists and lawyers who are working on LGBT issues. The Workshop will be co-facilitated by Professor Katherine Franke and Urvashi Vaid, Director of the Engaging Tradition Project at the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law.

September 18 - Hate Crimes/Bullying Laws:
Eliza Byard, Executive Director, GLSEN
Richard Kim, Executive Editor, The Nation

• Eliza Byard, Testimony Before the US Commission on Civil Rights (May 13, 2011)
• GLSEN, The 2011 National School Climate Survey Executive Summary: Key Findings of the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Our Nation’s Schools (2012)
• Richard Kim, The Nation, “Against ‘Bullying’ or On Loving Queer Kids” (October 6, 2010)
• Richard Kim, The Nation, “The Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi We Will Never Know” (March 19, 2012)

October 2 - Queering Criminal Justice:
Andrea Ritchie, Co-Coordinator of Streetwise and Safe
Bennett Capers, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

• Joey, L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock, "The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex," Queer (In)Justice, (2011).
• Bennett Capers, "Cross Dressing and the Criminal," 20 Yale J.L. & Human. 1 (2008)

October 16 - Queer Citizenship and Marriage:
James Esseks, Director, ACLU LGBT/AIDS Project
Katherine Franke, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School

• Windsor v. United States – Brief of Plaintiff-Appellee
• Katherine Franke, Wed-Locked, Epilogue

October 30 - Queering Tradition:
Pam Spees, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Ann Pellegrini, Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies & Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University

November 13 - Immigration, Citizenship & Belonging:
Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal
Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor of English, Gender and Women's Studies, and African American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

November 27 - Queering Race/Racing Queer:
Aisha Moodie-Mills, Center for American Progress Advisor, LGBT Policy & Racial Justice
Russell Robinson, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

All events will be held from 4:20-6:10pm in the Case Lounge, Room 701 of Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W. 116th Street.

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The Queer Theory Workshop at Columbia Law School together with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender ran a workshop/lecture series in the spring of 2011 reflecting on the current state of Queer Theory. Queer Theory emerged as a way of thinking about the social and cultural condition that cut diagonally across Feminist, Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies, which quickly proliferated into a series of theoretically and disciplinarily inflected approaches. This lecture series asks what conceptual, topical, and rhetorical forms have emerged over the last decade--and why these? What is the history of present *queer* approaches to social, political and cultural life, and what might be their legacies? We are particularly interested in reflections on Queer Theory's contemporary focus on affect, friendship, intimacy, and kinship and the rhetorical forms these seem to demand or solicit, particularly in light of the prominence of marriage debates in the West, the emergence of Islamaphobia in the North, and portraits of sexual colonialism in the South.

For videos from the workshop, please visit our iTunesU page.

For a round-up of the workshop, "Queer Morphologies: A Workshop Pushing the Boundaries of Queer Theory" please visit Feminist News, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender’s biannual newsletter below.

SPRING 2011 SCHEDULE
	January 25 - Kevin Ohi, English, Boston College - "‘My Spirit’s Posthumeity’ and the Sleeper’s Outflung Hand: Queer Transmission in Absalom, Absalom" Commentator: Katherine Biers, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
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	February 8 - Heather Love, English, University of Pennsylvania - "Underdogs: On the Minor in Queer Theory" Heather Love's paper is available here. Commentator: Marcellus Blount, English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
	February 22 - Libby Adler, Law, Northeastern University - "Just The Facts: The Perils of Expert Testimony in Gay Rights Litigation" Libby Adler's paper is available here. Commentator: Ilan Meyer, Public Health, Columbia University
	March 8 - Joseph Fischel, Political Science, University of Chicago - "Transcendent Homosexuals and Dangerous Sex Offenders: Sexual Harm and Freedom in the Judicial Imaginary" Joseph Fischel's paper is available here. Commentator: Rebecca Jordan-Young, Women's Studies, Barnard
	March 29 - David Halperin, English, University of Michigan - "Why Are the Drag Queens Laughing" Commentator: Elizabeth Emens, Law, Columbia University
	April 12 - Kathryn Stockton, English, University of Utah - "Queer Theory, Queer Children, and Kid Orientalism: The Sexual Child in a Racialized World" Kathryn Stockton's paper is available here. Commentator: Julie Crawford, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University