Thursday, April 17, 2008
Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Registration and Welcome (Atrium)

quickanddirty IV: A Graduate Queer Studies Symposium
Presentations by graduate students from American University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and University of Maryland

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Concurrent Graduate Symposium Sessions

Regulation, Surveillance, and Queer Challenges to the State (Nanticoke Room)

Amy L. WASHBURN, University of Maryland, Women's Studies
• "Power, Where Art Thou?: Queering Liberalism & Radicalizing Post/Modern Struggles for Revolution in the United States"

Ned MITCHELL, George Washington University, Queer Studies/Sexuality
• "Mysterious Skin and 'Vigilance'"

Jed R. BRUBAKER, Georgetown University, Communication, Culture and Technology
• "I judged you at Starbucks – m4m (craigslist missed connections): digital communication and the regulation of real world contexts"

Queerly Unstable: Alternate Histories and Competing National Narratives (Pyon Su Room)
Melissa YINGER, American University, Literature
• "Queering Concepts of Singularity: Metaphor and Identity in 1 Henry IV"

Damion CLARK, University of Maryland, English
• "The Last of England?: Miscegenation, Queer Flesh, and Competing Cinematic Narratives of National History and the Future of Britain"

Ramzi FAWAZ George Washington University, American Studies
• "Flame On!: James Sturm's Unstable Molecules and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four"

2:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Concurrent Graduate Symposium Sessions

A Shock to the System: Queer Engagements in Dueling Cultures (Nanticoke Room)
Jason HIPP, George Washington University, English/ International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• "Shock to the Body: Queering Affect and Gary Fisher"

Rigo MARQUEZ, University of Maryland, Education, Policy and Leadership
• "Queer like Me! A Revolution of Another Color: Queer Students of Color Creating Dialogues of Difference"

Benjamin REDFIELD, Georgetown University. Communication, Culture and Technology
• "Guerrilla Confrontation: The 'Smart Mob' as a Social Experiment"

Queer Identities and the Politics of Erasure (Pyon Su room)
Perry D. GUEVARA, Georgetown University, English
• "Desdemona's Dildo: Female Queerness and Fetish in Othello"

JV SAPINOSO, University of Maryland, Women's Studies
• "'Lost in an immersion of vanilla…frozen by an avalanche of snow': One Queer of Color's Lineage, Strategy, and Dreams for Queer Scholarship in the U.S."

Justin MAHER, University of Maryland, American Studies
• "The Way Who Lives?: Cultivation of Exclusionary Multiculturalism in The L Word's Los Angeles"

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Break (coffee or snacks on own in Union)

4:30 –7:00 PM
Keynote Address & Reception (Atrium)
Roderick A. FERGUSON, University of Minnesota
• To Be Fluent in Each Other's Narratives: Surplus Populations and Queer of Color Activism