Sex before Sexology Mini-Conference
Travis Foster's "Sex before Sexology" class will be presenting a mini-conference at 7:30 PM on April 22 and April 29. Location and a full schedule can be found below or at http://sexbeforesexology.wordpress.com/.
April 22
7:30 – 8:10 p.m.
INTIMATE NARRATIONS
Jonathan Kadjeski, “Ormond, or a Frozen Witness: Reading Antimimetic Narrative through the Paralipsis of Intimacy”
John Polanin, “’Born of the smoke and danger of death’: Political Productions of Sexual Identities”
8:10 – 8:50 p.m.
READING BODIES
Katie Miller, “Fate and Predestination in The Hermaphrodite and ‘The Amber Gods’”
Theresa Kircher, “Simultaneously Sexed: A Transgender Reading of Winterson’s Written on the Body and Butler’s Gender Performativity”
8:50 – 9:00
Break
9:00 – 9:40 p.m.
BIRTH IT SLANT
Samantha Vitale, “Perpetuating Progeny: Racial Reproductive Politics in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
Lee Nevitt, “Queer Reproduction and Its Contents”
April 29
7:30 – 8:10 p.m.
SEX OUTDOORS
Sara Radtke, “’Queer Little Gardens’: The Erotics of Nature in Hawthorne and Jewett”
Samantha Sorensen, “’And All So Luscious’: Corporeal Eroticism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855)”
8:10 – 8:50 p.m.
IN A JEWETT TIME AND PLACE
Jeff Howard, “Not So Poor Joanna: Materiality, Smooth Space, and Being as Becoming in Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs”
Eric Doyle, “’The Waiting Place’: Elegy and History in The Country of the Pointed Firs”
8:50 – 9:30
Reception
All sessions held in 410 Saint Augustine Center.
INTIMATE NARRATIONS
Jonathan Kadjeski, “Ormond, or a Frozen Witness: Reading Antimimetic Narrative through the Paralipsis of Intimacy”
John Polanin, “’Born of the smoke and danger of death’: Political Productions of Sexual Identities”
8:10 – 8:50 p.m.
READING BODIES
Katie Miller, “Fate and Predestination in The Hermaphrodite and ‘The Amber Gods’”
Theresa Kircher, “Simultaneously Sexed: A Transgender Reading of Winterson’s Written on the Body and Butler’s Gender Performativity”
8:50 – 9:00
Break
9:00 – 9:40 p.m.
BIRTH IT SLANT
Samantha Vitale, “Perpetuating Progeny: Racial Reproductive Politics in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
Lee Nevitt, “Queer Reproduction and Its Contents”
April 29
7:30 – 8:10 p.m.
SEX OUTDOORS
Sara Radtke, “’Queer Little Gardens’: The Erotics of Nature in Hawthorne and Jewett”
Samantha Sorensen, “’And All So Luscious’: Corporeal Eroticism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855)”
8:10 – 8:50 p.m.
IN A JEWETT TIME AND PLACE
Jeff Howard, “Not So Poor Joanna: Materiality, Smooth Space, and Being as Becoming in Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs”
Eric Doyle, “’The Waiting Place’: Elegy and History in The Country of the Pointed Firs”
8:50 – 9:30
Reception
All sessions held in 410 Saint Augustine Center.
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