Behind the Rainbow

Queer Studies Easter Symposium

Simposio de Estudios Queer de la Pascua

Mexico City/Ciudad de México

Abstracts/Resúmenes de ponencias 2008

Among Friends, una iniciativa para migrantes y refugiados del colectivo LGBT y queer

Gabriel Gutiérrez García

Agencia de Noticias sobre Diversidad Sexual (Anodis)

(México/Canada)

Las consecuencias de un baile de nefando: Homosexualidad y moral social durante el porfiriato 

Claudia Ceja Andrade.

Centro de Estudios Históricos

El Colegio de Mexico

(México)

Problemáticas de la construcción del movimiento gay en México. Un análisis sociológico a partir del modelo de acción colectiva

Katia Escalante Monroy

Instituto Pakal.

Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana

(México)

Liszt in Leather, Easter and Other

Seth Montfort

Artistic Director,  
San Francisco Concerto Orchestra and

Russian River Performing Arts Center and Conservatory of Music

(Francia/Estados Unidos)

Hiperidentidad, cuerpos queer y frontera en Borderlands/La Frontera: The new mestiza de Anzaldúa

Georgina Carbajal

Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje

Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana

(México)

Relatos intimos sobre el amor entre hombres en comunidades rurales en Mexico

Manuel Amador Velázquez

sociologo independiente,

activista por los derechos humanos, escritor y poeta

(México)

Identidades no-Heterosexuales

Guillermo Hernández González

Psicología

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

(México)

¿De la homofobia a la aceptación?: Encuentros y desencuentros cuando mujeres lesbianas salen del clóset frente a sus familias

Lilia Monroy Limón

Estudios de Género

El Colegio de México

(México)

A propósito de Borderlands, de Gloria Anzaldúa: escritura ritual y performatividad fronteriza

Cecilia Núñez Martínez

Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje

Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana

(México)

Asserting Our Humanity: The Yogyakarta Principles as a Local and Global Instrument for Sexual Minorities

Ryan Richard Thoreson

Department of Social Anthropology

Oxford University

(Reino Unido)

Fellatio, Sainthood, and the Mexican Inquisition
Zeb Tortorici
Department of History, UCLA

(Estados Unidos)

El legado de Sísifo. Herramientas, esfuerzo físico y acciones ritualizadas en la obra de cuatro artistas mexicanos: Héctor Falcón, Enrique Jezik, Israel Mora y Ricardo Rendón.

Irving Domínguez,

Casa Vecina. Espacio Cultural

(Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México)

(Mexico)

“Homosexualidad y “estado peligroso”, a través de la revista Criminalia. Ciudad de México, 1933-1945”.

Enrique Esqueda Blas

Centro de Estudios Históricos

El Colegio de México

(Mexico)

Post-Traumatic Expression in Pop Music, Two Examples

Fred Everett Maus

Department of Music,

University of Virginia

(Estados Unidos)

Feeling Sovereign

Neville Hoad

Department of English

University of Texas at Austin

(Estados Unidos)

¿Cuál diferencia sexual?  No me hables de género...

Lars Bedurke

Instituto de Estudios de la Mujer

Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

(Costa Rica)

Gay Liberation in the ‘War on Terror’: Beyond ‘Sexual Rights v. Religious Rights’

Jin Haritaworn
Media and Communications Studies Department
Goldsmiths College, London 

(Reino Unido)

Transgenerismo: Un discurso actual de Transgresión Cultural

María Fernanda Carrillo Sánchez

Programa de Ciencias Sociales -

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) 

(México)

Special session: 

Session intro: CampCamp!, Idapalooza, and Pink: Performance, Event, and the Formation of Transitory, Queer Community

Papers:

“Love, Labor, and the Proliferation of Small Worlds: Getting pink in Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon” 

Jaclyn Pryor

Performance as Public Practice Program

University of Texas-Austin

 

“CampCamp, or, The Persistence of Performing Queer” 

Ray Matthews

Performance as Public Practice Program

University of Texas-Austin

& Silky Shoemaker

Independent Artist

 

“Radical Faeries, Repetition, and Return: A Memorylogue” 

Simon Strikeback

Independent Artist

& Ray Matthews

Performance as Public Practice Program

University of Texas-Austin

session page

La incorporación de las sexualidades y los géneros en la curricula e investigación académicas de universidades públicas en México

Betania Allen

Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública

 

Adriana Leona Rosales

Universidad Pedagógica Nacional

 

Martha Villaseñor

Universidad de Guadalajara

‘Self-Eater: Gender, Sexuality and Cannibalism in the Work of Dana Schutz’

Christian Mieves

Department of Fine Art, 

School of Arts and Cultures 

Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

(Reino Unido)

Special session: 

Session intro: Intranational and International Geographies of Queer Politics: A Focus on India

Papers:

 

To Render Real the Imagined: Making Sexual Locality out of Unruly Geographies

Naisargi Dave

Department of Anthropology

University of Toronto

(Canada/India)

 

Queer Desi Formations: Marking the Boundaries of Cultural Belonging in America

Gayatri Reddy

Department of Anthropology and Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

University of Illinois, Chicago

(Estados Unidos/India)

 

The Transformation of Eunuchs’ Lives & Livelihoods in 19^th century North India

Mario D’Penha

History Department, 

Rutgers University,

(Estados Unidos/India)

 

Intersections and Movements: The Rise of Queer Political Activism in India

Gautam Bhan

Department of Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley

(Estados Unidos/India)

session page

Hannah Arendt comes out: A queer-Arendtian collaboration to understand reality and coming out

Johanna Rothe

History of Consciousness Department 

University of California, Santa Cruz

(Estados Unidos / Austria / Alemania)

The Threshold of Legibility: Making Sense of “Exceptional” Bodies

Maura Finkelstein

Department of Anthropology

Stanford University

Estados Unidos

Special session: 

Procesos de Estigmatización, Políticas Emancipatorias y Derechos Humanos en Brasil

Papers: 

De la Travestifobia y la relación de las Travestis Brasileñas con los Servicios de Salud

Wiliam Siqueira Peres

Departamento de Psicologia Clínica 

State University of São Paulo – UNESP

São Paulo, Brazil

 

Clinic of Sexual Diversity: Psychoanalysis and Gender/Queer Studies in the direction of the treatment

Fernando Silva Teixeira Filho

Departamento de Psicologia Clínica 

State University of São Paulo – UNESP

São Paulo, Brazil

 

Trangender, transsexual e travesties in Brazil

Berenice Alves de Melo Bento

Departamento de Sociologia da UnB
Universidade de Brasília - Campus Universitário - ICC Centro - Asa Norte

Brasília, Brasil

“What woman am I?”: (homo)sexualities, differences and bodiness in São Paulo, Brazil

Regina Facchini

State University of Campinas – UNICAMP

São Paulo, Brasil

session page

Like Dogs in Heat: Untaming bodies, relocating tongues. Sally Bellerose Married Ladies Have Sex in the Bathroom

Nelson G. Rodríguez Avilez

Univeridade da Coruña

(España)

Funny as Fuck. Behind the Scenes of Straight Pleasure

Sanna Härmä

Department of Media Studies, 

School of Art, Literature and Music

University of Turku (Åbo)

(Finland)

& 

Joakim Stolpe

Department of Philosophy

Åbo Akademi University, Åbo (Turku)

(Finland)

Le moi et la normalisation

Yekhan Pinarligil

Université de Paris I 

Panthéon-Sorbonne

(France)

The “Queer Phenomenology” of Evegenii Kharitonov’s “The Oven”

Lucas Stratton

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

University of California, Berkeley

(Estados Unidos)

Queer is a Feeling: A Call for the Exploration of the Felt Dimensions of Queer Identity

Elizabeth Schergen

Department of Anthropology

University of Texas, Austin

(Estados Unidos)

Queer politics is going globalwhat? Cultural translation and disempowerment

Marie-Hélène Bourcier

Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3 /

École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris

(France)

Queering the Past, Imagining the Future: Jovita González’s The Dew on the Thorn and the Imaginings of the New Intellectual

Jaime Humberto Cruz

University of California - Berkeley

(Estados Unidos)

Cross-dressing and Passing in Iranian Cinema: Queering Gender Performance in Iranian Cinema and Culture

Roshanak Kheshti 

Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

UC Berkeley

(Estados Unidos/Iran)

Les pratiques identitaires des gais et lesbiennes en milieu de travail: normalisation ou contestation?

Line Chamberland 

Institut de recherches et d'études féministes (IREF)

UQAM (Université de Quebec en Montreal)

(Canada)

 

Versión en Castellano: Asimilación o confrontación? Las identidades de los gays y lesbianas en el medio de trabajo

Who is afraid of Madame Satã: Simulating Brazilian authenticity through queerness and roguery in the XXI century

Cristina Rosa

Department of World Arts and Cultures

UCLA

(Estados Unidos/Brasil)

Los espacios cinemáticos de homosocialización desde una perspectiva geográfica

Rafael Ernesto Sánchez Suárez

Programa de Posgrado en Geografía 

y Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, UNAM

Mexico

Certezas y contradicciones en la representación del estereotipo de la mujer “decente” en el melodrama mexicano: Dolores del Río desde Hollywood a México Leonardo Boscarin School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts Queen's University, Belfast Northern Ireland

Queer Diaspora: What’s Queer About the (Queer) Future? 

Zoran Pecic

School of English, 

University of Wales, Bangor, 

Reino Unido/Dinamarca

The Unusually High Incidence of Women Mentors for Gay Male Protégés

Robin Church

Ted Rogers School of Business Management 

Ryerson University; Toronto

Canada

Conceptions of gender and sexuality of Drag Kings in Switzerland

Eveline Nay

Pädagogisches Institut

Universität Zürich, 

Suiza

Gender Is, As Gender Does: A Study Merging Cherokee Women’s Autonomy and Gender Performativity

Jenell Morrow

Deparment of Cultural Studies,

Claremont Graduate University

Estados Unidos

Les fondements socioculturels des rapports de pouvoir entres les sexes en région bamiléké (Ouest-Cameroun)

Achille Pinghane Yonta

Institute de Sociologie

Université de Yaoundé

Cameroun

Sexuality and Culture among the Timbira in Central Brazil: an Amazonian Perspective

Thiago Ávila

Department of Social Anthropology

Universidade de Brasília

Brasil

Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and the Collective Work of Gendering

Jane Ward

Department of Women's Studies

University of California, Riverside

Estados Unidos

Queer Comics in France and in the USA

Michael A. Johnson

Department of French & Italian 

University of Texas at Austin

Estados Unidos

Heterosexual Melancholia and the “Straight” Money-Shot

Bob Langjahr

Theology, Ethics and Human Sciences Program

Chicago Theolgical Seminary

Estados Unidos

Travesti brasileñas: singularidades nacionales, deseos transnacionales

Larissa Pelucio

Nucelo de Estudos de Genero Pagu

Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp), 

Brasil

Section 377 and the “Trouble with Statism”: Legal Intervention and Queer Performativity in Contemporary India

Nishant Shahani

Department of Women's Studies

Washington State University

Estados Unidos/India

Racialized Desire in Gay Tourism and Advertising

Gregory Mitchell

Deptartment of Performance Studies,

Northwestern University

Estados Unidos

Queering the Other: Gender trouble and post-colonial French cinema 

Brigitte Rollet 

French Department

(ULIP) University of London Institute in Paris)

Francia

Tres décadas de joterío en el cine mexicano. Evolución del imaginario gay: 1970-1999

Bernard Schulz-Cruz

Department of Spanish

University of British Columbia

Canada

The ‘Self-Made Man’ as Risky Business: The Impact of Neo-liberal Discourses on Trans Masculinities and Politics

Dan Irving

Institute of Interdiscipinary Studies

Carleton University

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Querying/Queering 1920s Blues Texts: Or, Whatever Happened to the ‘B.D.’ Woman?

Lorna Wheeler

Department of English

Metropolitan State College of Denver

Estados Unidos

Queer Bodies in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

Santiago Fouz-Hernández

Durham University

Reino Unido

Construction of Femininity and Domestic Violence

Kabanyoro Gertrude

Makerere University

Uganda

General Idea’s Miss General Idea Pageant: Humor and the Politics of Queer Cultural Practice

Virginia Solomon

Department of Art History

University of Southern California

Dynamique des représentations sociales autour de la sexualité au Cameroun

Achille Pinghane Yonta

Institute de Sociologie

Université de Yaoundé

Cameroun

Shifting Positionalities: Reflections on a 'Queer' Methodology

Jin Haritaworn
Media and Communications Studies Department
Goldsmiths College, London 

(Reino Unido)

Abstracts of papers presented at the 1st Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2007