Welcome to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Program.

The LGBT Program currently offers an undergraduate certificate and a minor. The certificate is a 21-credit interdisciplinary course of study comprised of 15 required and 6 elective credits designed to complement any student's major field of study. The minor is a 15-credit interdisciplinary course of study comprised of 12 required and 3 elective credits. All current UMD students are eligible to pursue the certificate or minor; contact our office to register.

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For Spring 2013 LGBT Studies Proudly Presented:

DEBILITATING QUEERNESS
Eleventh Annual Lecture Series in LGBT Studies

Queer theory in the twenty-first century has focused on a wide range of bodies and minds in a variety of states: failing, wounded, scarred, damaged, infected or infectious, diseased, mad, depressed, or traumatized. Only recently, however, has this focus engaged thickly with disability theory, making a crip turn to what Jasbir Puar describes as “questions of bodily capacity, debility, disability, precarity, and populations.” Debilitating Queerness both highlights and extends this turn. If debility signifies infirmity, feebleness, or frailty, what happens to queerness when it is openly theorized through debility and disability? What might it mean to debilitate queerness? How might such a debilitation be opposed to the compulsory able-bodiedness of mainstream LGBT politics? What other critical projects might it be linked to? Please join us for this illuminating series of conversations.

DEBILITATING QUEERNESS
The Sixth Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium

A One-Day Conference at the University of Maryland

April 5, 2013, College Park, MD

The symposium was a daylong series of conversations in critical queer, gender, and disability studies focused on the recent turn toward questions of bodily capacity, debility, disability, precarity, and populations. Events included three concurrent paper sessions, followed by an afternoon plenary featuring Karen Nakamura (Associate Professor of Anthropology & East Asian Studies, Yale University), Margaret Price (Associate Professor of English, Spelman College), and Abby Wilkerson (Associate Professor of Writing, The George Washington University). The day culminated with a keynote address by Jasbir Puar, associate professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University. Puar is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times and of articles 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. She has edited or co-edited special issues of GLQ, Social Text, and Society and Space.

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Take a LGBT course Summer and Fall 2013!

Seats are still available for 350 "LGBT People and Communication" and 448Q "Queer Citizenship: Perspectives on Bodies, Sexualities, and Performances." See all our Fall courses on Testudo. A list of Summer and Fall courses and course descriptions are available.

Questions? Contact us to make an advising appointment, or to sign up for the minor or certificate in LGBT Studies.

For the Spring 2012 semester, the LGBT Studies Program office will be staffed Mon. from 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm; Tues. and Wed. from 10am-4pm; and Thurs. 12:30pm-4pm. We look forward to talking with you about advising for the certificate or minor, enrolling in courses, or other concerns. So, come visit us in 2417 Marie Mount Hall, call us at 301.405.LGBT or e-mail us.

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For other current events on campus check with the LGBT Equity Center, the The One Project, the Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy office, the Pride Alliance.