Queer Studies in Feminist Formations: A Symposium September 30th and October 1st Coffman Memorial Union Please join us for a two-day symposium celebrating the launch of the Feminist Formations dossier on Annamarie Jagose’s book, Orgasmology.

Schedule of Events: Friday, September 30

Saturday, October 1

1:30pm – 3:00pm “A Feminist Formations Conversation: On the Orgasmology Dossier” with Robyn Wiegman, Annamarie Jagose, Kadji Amin, and Sandra K. Soto Coffman Theater

10:00am – 12:00pm Panel: “Queering Imperial Attachments” with Kadji Amin, Kale Fajardo, Erin Durban-Albrecht and Katy Mohrman President’s Room

3:00pm – 3:45pm Refreshments Coffman Theater Annex

12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch President’s Room

4:00pm – 5:30pm Keynote Address: Annamarie Jagose, “Animal Attachments” President’s Room

1:00pm – 2:30pm Keynote Address: Robyn Wiegman “Kara Walker’s Racial Sensations” President’s Room

5:30pm – 7:00pm Cocktail Reception Campus Club

2:30pm – 3:00pm Closing Remarks by Sandra K. Soto President’s Room

Kadji Amin is Assistant Professor of Queer Studies, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in “Sex” at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum (2015-16) and a Faculty Fellow at the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook (2015). His book, Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Pederasty, and Queer History, is under contract with the Theory Q Series at Duke University Press. Erin L. Durban-Albrecht is former managing editor of Feminist Formations and currently Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Illinois State University. Durban-Albrecht’s scholarship is about the gender and sexual politics of U.S. imperialism in Haiti. Kale Bantigue Fajardo is Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Fajardo’s first book, Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring,



Masculinities and Globalization is an interdisciplinary ethnography that analyzes the cultural politics of Filipino migrant and maritime masculinities in the local/global shipping industry, in the context of local/global neoliberal capitalism. Annamarie Jagose is Professor and Head the school of Literature, Art and Media in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. Internationally known as a scholar in feminist studies, lesbian/gay studies and queer theory, she is the author of four monographs, most recently Orgasmology, which takes orgasm as its scholarly object in order to think queerly about questions of politics and pleasure; practice and subjectivity; agency and ethics. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Sandra K. Soto is Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research and teaching interests include Chican@ and Latin@ literary and cultural studies; feminist and queer theory, transnational feminist studies, and critical race studies. She is currently holds a Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota where she is Visiting Professor in the Department of American Studies and Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies. She’s the author of Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (2010) and was editor of Feminist Formations from 2011-2016. Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at Duke University, where she teaches courses in feminist and queer theory, U.S. Studies, and critical race studies. She is the author of Object Lessons (2012) and American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (1995), and has edited numerous anthologies that focus on the institutional and political formation of identity knowledges, including The Futures of American Studies (2002); Women’s Studies on Its Own (2002); and Feminism Beside Itself (1995). Her current work includes Arguments Worth Having, which locates points of critical tension and dissension in contemporary encounters between feminist and queer theory, and Racial Sensations, a study that considers the affective politics of race thinking. This event is co-sponsored by Feminist Formations, the University of Minnesota Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts, Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies and Campus Life, Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies, and Department of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies.