The Places of "Queer" in Latin America and Latino/a Studies
March 24, 2006
This interdisciplinary symposium aims to call together some of the
scholars that have contributed to the debates about queer Latin American
and US Latina/o Studies in order to exchange ideas on the main issues
that concern this field. The following topics will be addressed:
- Problems that the uses and definitions of "Queer" and "Queer
studies" have posed for Latin American and US Latino/a scholarship such as the
question of the feminine and the masculine, historical junctures,
pathology and the normative, and the relationship between sexuality and
gender.
- Epistemological questions in the analysis of Queer Studies such as a
critique of the application of US based models for understanding
queerness in Latin America and US Latino populations, social agency and
politics, nationalism/transnationalism, "Queering" as praxis for
knowledge production.
- Issues of identity, sexuality and subjectivity that are included in
the queer studies agenda for Latin America and US Latino populations such as
critical discourses on identity politics, activism and academia,
discourses of race, racism and sexualities, and performance and
subjectivity.
Conference Program
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