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CALENDAR / FALL 2024

CONVENERS

FALL 2024

MEETING 1

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 @12—1:30pm / Richter Library, Third Floor, Faculty Exploratory

MEETING 2

Wednesday. October 23, 2024 @12—1:30pm / Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room

MEETING 3

Tuesday, November 5, 2024: Special Virtual Event already Scheduled for Zoom

MEETING 4 (TBD)

SPRING 2025 

To be announced...

FALL 2023

MEETING 1

Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library, Suite 100

November 17 (Friday), 12:00 to 1:30pm

Readings to Discuss:

"The straight mind", by Monique Wittig along with the comment on her work "Are Lesbians Women?", by Jacob Hale.

SPRING 2024

MEETING 1

February 21 (Wednesday), @ 12:15 pm

Topic: Reviewing Judith Butler's Heterosexual Matrix Through a Critique of the Imperial Effect

MEETING 2

March 20, (Wednesday), @ 12:15 pm

Topic: Introduction to the Work of Diana Torres

MEETING 3 

April 17, (Wednesday), @ 12:15 pm

Topic: TBD with Social Meeting to follow on April 19, 2024 @ 5 pm

Elizabeth Cornick, Ph.D. Student in English

Elizabeth is a second-year graduate student in the English Ph.D. program at the University of Miami with a M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. Her fields of interest include 20th-century American literature, queer studies, and digital humanities. She loves exchanging ideas with others and writing. 

Ra Bacchus, Ph.D. Student in English

Ra is a second-year graduate student in the English Ph.D. program at the University of Miami. He holds an M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. His fields of specialization are the medical humanities, the digital humanities, and Caribbean Studies. Ra is also a recreational DJ and enjoys recombining media through a scholarly art practice called “literary DJing.”

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel specializes in colonial, postcolonial Latin American, and Caribbean literature. She teaches courses on critical theory, comparative coloniality, gender and sexuality studies, and Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean studies. She has taught at Princeton University (1997-2000), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2000-2003; 2008-2017), and the University of Pennsylvania (2003-2008). She recently co-edited two volumes: (with Michelle Stephens) Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020).

CALENDAR: SPRING 2023

CONVENERS

Jointly convened meetings for the QSIRG and Animal Studies & Environmental Humanities Research Group

QSIRG LUNCHTIME MEETING 1

Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library, Suite 100

February 17 (Friday), 12:30 to 1:45

• Morton, Timothy. 2010. Guest Column: Queer Ecology. PMLA 125(2):273-282
• See, Sam. 2020. Excerpts from Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies. Fordham University Press (available as an eBook through the UM library’s website)
• Mortimer-Sandilands,  Catroina. 2010. “Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies.” In Queer Ecologies, ed.  by C. Mortimer-Sandilands and B. Erickson, pp. 331-58. Indiana University Press
• Seymour, Nicole. 2020. “Good Animals.” In Transecology, ed. by D. Vakoch. Routledge

QSIRG LUNCHTIME MEETING 2

Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library, Suite 100

April 12 (Wednesday), 12:30 TO 1:45

• Davis, Heather. 2022. “Queer Kin” in Plastic Matter. Duke University Press
• Excerpts from Ecologies of Gender, edited by Susanne Lettow and Sabine Nessel (2022, Routledge); Nicole Seymour ("Plastic Ambivalence,” pp. 71-88) and Sven Bergmann (“Speculative Ecologies: Salmon Farming and Marine Microplastics as Slow Disasters,” pp. 206-226)
• Seymour, Nicole. 2022. Excerpts from Glitter. Bloomsbury Academic.

Pamela Geller, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Gabriel das Chagas, Ph.D. Student, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

CALENDAR: FALL 2022

CONVENERS

Meeting 1. Readings: Selections from: 

— Riley Snorton. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (U of Minnesota P, 2017) 

— Jules Gill-Peterson. Histories of the Transgender Child (U of Minnesota P, 2018)

Via Zoom: Friday, September 23, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Meeting 2. Readings: Selections from: TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, special issue on “Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right,” vol. 9, num. 3 (August 2022).

Via Zoom: Thursday, October 20, from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m.

Meeting 3. Readings:  Selections from Marquis Bey. Black Trans Studies (Duke UP, 2022)

Via Zoom: Wednesday, November 9, from 1:15 to 3:45 p.m. 

All readings are available electronically via Richter library’s on-line catalog. If you do not have access to Richter Library, please contact Brenna Munro to receive a copy of the readings. 

Meeting 4: Queer Studies IRG Invited Speaker's Talk: Dr. MARQUIS BEY 

In person: Thursday, December 1 at 6 p.m.  Richter Library, 3rd floor conference room. Co-sponsored by UM’s Center for the Humanities, Dept. of English, and Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; and by FIU’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Dr. Marquis Bey (they/them, or any pronoun) is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University.

The communities of the University of Miami and Florida International University are invited to attend this program with Dr. Marquis Bey, co-sponsored by the University of Miami's Center for the Humanities' Queer Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group; the Department of English; the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; and Florida International University's Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

Friday, December 2, 2022 @ 3:00pm. GSS Colloquium: "A Conversation on Black Trans Feminism with Dr. Marquis Bey." University of Miami's Coral Gables Campus, Merrick Building 214.

Brenna Munro, Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies

Marcia Fanti Negri, Ph.D. candidate, Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Studies (Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures)