Queering Everything:
2022 Q-Scholars Undergraduate Symposium

9:00 am: Welcome

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9:15 am: Panel #1: (In)Visibility

Isabella Durgin: Fluid Sexuality and Gender in “Beachy Head”

Raven Moon: The History of the Pink Triangle: Transcending Terror

Nicki Klar: Between Bettcher and Kafer: Out of Mind, Body, and Time

Tessa Stapp: Branching Assemblages: A Multi-Lens Investigation into Feminism's Storytelling Methods, and a Critical Proposal for Engaging with Our Histories

 

10:15 am: Panel #2: Contemporary Life

Helya Salarvand: (Re)locating Pride: Borders, Space, and Policing at Los Angeles Pride

Herman Luis Chavez: “i sing a song about being alone”: Critiques of Homosocial Relations in Don’t Call Us Dead and Nature Poem

Enyi Emuka: Examining the Relationship between Mobility and Mutual Aid: Elastic Community Support as a Radical Queer Method of Care

Gabrielle Sevillano: The Fan Culture Wars: Fanfiction, Feminist Ethics, and the Problematics of Pleasure

 

11:15 am: Panel #3: Christianity and Pre-Modern World

Chaunti T. Hatchett: Ancient Athenian Male Social-Sexual Relationships and Their Effects on Female Power

Jaime Marrara: Jesus Christ and the Transgender Headcanon

Jinha Song: Queering the Rocks: Three Readings of the “Grisly, Feendly Rokkes Blake” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale

Payton Dodd: Holy/Homoerotic: Queer Possession in the Lives of Saints Lidwina and Osith

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12:30: Keynote: Dr. Gila Ashtor

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Gila Ashtor is an academic, writer, and psychoanalyst. She is the author of Homo Psyche: Queer Theory and Metapsychology, a 2022 Lammy Finalist. She is also the author of the "anti-memoir" Aural History and a book on clinical theory, Exigent Psychoanalysis. 

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1:30: Panel #4: Families and the Home

Avik Sarkar: No Place Like Home: Domesticity and Female Sexuality in Cereus Blooms at Night

Antonio Rodriguez and Pernille Grage: Death and Violence in the Queer Home: How Violence, Death, and the Home are Queered in English Literature

Eric Olsen: Abundance of Love and Affection: Affirmations from our Queer Ancestors in the Archives

Charlie Stetson: The Construction of a Queer Family - Queer American Autobiography