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WGSS Speaker Series Archives

 

FA2023 - SP2024

  • Dr. Shelley Park and Dr. Jen Sandoval, University of Central Florida: "Fighting Florida's Stop WOKE Act"
  • Samantha Vazquez and Brigid Aslin, Illinois State University: "A Survey of Transgender Legislation in 2023"
  • Dr. Bridget Sundin, Illinois State University: "I Adore You Forever: The Performative Past of Mercedes de Acosta and Marlene Dietrich"
  • Illinois State University Faculty and Staff: "Asexuality in Media"

FA2021 - SP2022

  • Travis Wagner, University of South Carolina. "The Algorithm Led Me Here: Using Contemporary LGBTQIA+ Media Use to Understand the Future of Queer Archives"

FA2017 - SP2018

  • Erin Durban-Albrecht, Illinois State University. "Religious Sexual Politics in Haiti: Vodou, Catholicism, and Protestantism"
  • Ronak Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago. "Outer Views, or Palestine in the Sky: Arab Futurisms, Atmospheric Warfare, and Queer Cosmic Utopias"
  • Justin Vickers, Illinois State University. "The Midcentury Politics of the Closet in Great Britain" 

FA2016 - SP2017

  • Amber Jamilla Musser, Washington University. "Queering Sugar: Kara Walker and Spectacular Female Sexuality"
  • Dylan McCarthy Blackston, University of Arizona. "Monkey Business: Trans*, Animacy, and Colonial Boundaries of Kind"
  • Mario LaMothe, University of Illinois at Chicago. "Our Love on Fire: Gay Men's Stories of Violence and Hope in Haiti" 
  • Carley Thomsen, Middlebury College. "Queering the Rural: Visibility, Politics, and Production of Place" 
  • Miranda Joseph, University of Arizona. "Envisioning Queer Collectivity, Contesting Racial Capitalism" 
  • Toby Beauchamp. "On Bathrooms and Borders"
  • Brooke Lober, Sonoma State University. "Women Against Imperialism: Tracing Queer/Feminist Revisions of Home"