The conference program is now available for download here [PDF]. Changes to the schedule will be updated here, so check back closer to the conference for the most recent version of the program.
"Meet the Author" session information and selected readings are now available for download at http://pitt.libguides.com/doingthebody
Special Lectures and Keynotes
Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 5:00 PM
University Club, Ballroom A
The Sovereignty of the Senses, with Ann Cvetkovich (University of Texas)
This keynote address aims to articulate notions of sovereignty, democracy, and freedom in affective and sensory terms. Ann Cvetkovich envisions sovereignty as an embodied practice rather than an abstract concept and as something that must be learned and experienced collectively over time. [PDF]
Sponsored by: Bioethics Program; Cultural Studies Program; Department of Communication; Department of English; Department of Sociology; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program; Humanities Center; Year of the Humanities
Friday, April 1, 2016 at 1:30pm
324 Cathedral of Learning
On Tracking and Transitions, with Toby Beauchamp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
This talks reads the scene of U.S. airport surveillance through the lens of transgender politics. I critically examine the common concern that airport security may misinterpret certain bodily technologies, such as protheses used by some transgender people and people with disabilities, as weapons rather than as medical necessities. By considering how those areas of the body understood as especially private--the genitals in particular--are historically suffused with public anxiety, I intervene into calls for more sensitive or accurate airport screenings, arguing for a more complicated understanding of bodily privacy, health, and vulnerability.
Friday, April 1, 2016 at 6:00pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
The Queer Politics of Coalition, with Karma Chávez
This keynote address names coalition as queer and explores the affective embodied and tactical conditions that constitute coalition. Considering themes of belonging, intimacy, pain, and hope, Karma Chávez conceptualizes how we might theorize and engage radical coalition politics. [PDF]
Sponsored by: Bioethics Program; Center for Latin American Studies; Cultural Studies Program; Department of Communication; Department of English; Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Sociology; Distinguished Professor John Beverley; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Program; Humanities Center; Year of the Humanities
Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 6:00pm
324 Cathedral of Learning
Afterlife in the Aftermath, with Michelle Murphy (University of Toronto)
Feminist technoscience studies scholar and historian Michelle Murphy discusses the theory that all life is enfleshed through industrial chemicals and environmental violence. Discover what the chemical consequences may be of industrial capitalism, militarism, and racism that stretch across bodies transgenerationally and mutate the material manifestations of race and sex. [PDF]
Sponsored by: Bioethics Program; Cultural Studies Program; Department of Communication; Department of English; Department of Sociology; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program; Humanities Center; Year of the Humanities