Gender, Sexuality, Modernism:
A Symposium on the State of the Field
English Department
Sponsored by the Penn English Department, the Modernist Studies Group, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Group, the Women’s Studies Program, and the LGBT Center.
PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE:
9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast Trays, at the Humanities Forum
9:30-12:00 Morning Roundtable on New Methods and Approaches
What are some of the emerging approaches or paradigms at the crossroads of modernist studies and gender/sexuality studies? Where do we see potential for exciting new research?
Moderators: Richard Meyer and Heather Love
Rebecca Walkowitz
12:00-2:00 Box Lunches, at the Humanities Forum
2:00-4:30 Afternoon Roundtable on Institutional Developments
Where are we headed, or where should we be headed, given the shifting disciplinary rubrics and divisions among feminism, literary criticism, modernist studies, women’s studies, gender studies, queer theory, and other proximate fields? What new configurations or alliances might be desirable? What kinds of professional opportunities or hindrances are produced by these institutional developments?
Moderator: Rita Barnard 5:00-6:30 Dinner at the 6:30-9:00 “On Bareback Subcultures and the Pornography of Risk.” [Related Event at Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St] The Symposium was organized by Rita Barnard, Jim English, Laura Heffernan, Benjamin Kahan, Aaron Levy, and Heather Love, with assistance from
Participants: Robert Caserio, Tim Dean, Kathryn Kent, Janet Lyon, Douglas Mao
With Tim Dean, Robert Caserio, Heather Love, and Jean-Michel Rabate.
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