DELANY AT 70:

Honoring the Life & Work of Samuel R. Delany

The Fifth Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium

A One-Day Conference at the University of Maryland

April 20, 2012, College Park, MD

Free and open to the public

The symposium will be a daylong series of conversations in critical queer, race, and gender studies inspired by the multifaceted cultural work of author, literary critic, and professor Samuel R. Delany, whose seventieth birthday is April 1, 2012. Events will include paper sessions featuring faculty and graduate students. In addition, an plenary of faculty featuring Jayna Brown (Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside), Kevin Floyd (Associate Professor of English, Kent State Univeristy), Jordana Rosenberg (Assistant Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and a response by Tavia Nyong’o (Associate Professor of Performance Studies, New York University) will present their work in the afternoon. The day will culminate in Samuel R. Delany reading from his new novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, and engaging in conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr, Distinguised Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

DC Queer Studies is a group of faculty from schools in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area formed in 2006 to discuss new works in the field and to exchange, support, and cultivate new ways of engaging with LGBT/Queer/Sexuality Studies across the disciplines and across institutions.

Please join us for what promises to be a lively spring festival of scholarly exchange in an interdiscipline that continues to challenge and transform the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences, and the world in which we live.

REGISTER FOR THE SYMPOSIUM
Registration is FREE and OPEN to the public. To register, please complete the online registration form.

Or, you may also send an email to lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu with the following information: your name, department/title (if any), institutional/organizational affiliation (if any), and email address. Also, please let us know if you will be joining us for the buffet lunch and/or the closing reception.

We ask that attendees preregister by April 10 so that we can plan food accordingly. However, on-site registrations will also be accepted.

EVENT COORDINATION
Marilee Lindemann, Christina Hanhardt, with the assistance of JV Sapinoso and Amy French, LGBT Studies Program, University of Maryland.

SYMPOSIUM PLANNING COMMITTEE
Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland; Chad Heap, The George Washington University; Marilee Lindemann, University of Maryland; Ricardo Ortiz, Georgetown University; Tom Ratekin, American University; and Gayle Wald, The George Washington University.

SPONSORS

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
The Office of Undergraduate Studies; the Office of University Diversity; the Graduate School; the departments of African American Studies, American Studies, English, and Women’s Studies; the Asian American Studies Program; the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies; the LGBT Equity Center; and the LGBT Studies Program.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
College of Arts and Sciences

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
African American Studies Program

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Departments of American Studies and English; Columbian College of Arts and Sciences