The May 1st, day-long conference will culminate with a panel discussion featuring the following scholars and activists:
Lisa Duggan is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is co-editor of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest and author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity, which won the John Boswell Prize of the American Historical Association in 2001.
José Estaben Muñoz is an American academic in the fields of Performance Studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory. His book Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999) examines queer and racial minority issues from a performance studies perspective. He has also co-edited Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996) with Jennifer Doyle and Jonathan Flatley and Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (1997) with Celeste Fraser Delgado. Muñoz is currently the chair of the Department of Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Jonathan Ned Katz is an American historian of human sexuality whose works focus on the idea, rooted in social constructionism, that the categories with which we describe and define human sexuality are historically and culturally specific, along with the social organization of sexual activity, desire, relationships, and sexual identities. He is the author of six books including, The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995) and Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (2003). He also is the founder and director of www.OUTHISTORY.org, a site devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, (LGBTQ) and heterosexual history.
Jasbir Puar is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and of Geography, at Rutgers University. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies; South Asian cultural studies; and theories of assemblage and affect. She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Professor Puar has also authored numeous articles that appear in Gender, Place, and Culture; Social Text; Radical History Review; Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ entitled, Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization and she co-edited a volume of Society and Space entitled Sexuality and Space.
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