Conferences Archive (2003-2004)

MEDIA QUEERED
Friday, April 2, 2004

Since the 1960s, queer people have become increasingly visible in the media. Queer identities in community life and politics may rely in the 21st century on the prevailing media landscape. The paradoxes of visibility are many: spurring tolerance through harmful stereotyping, diminishing isolation at the cost of activism, trading assimilation for equality, converting radicalism into a market niche. A series of colloquia culminating in a day-long symposium will explore visibility and its discontents.

C O L L O Q U I A

Monsters No More

Friday, Jan. 30, 2004
1–4 p.m.

P A R T I C I P A N T S

Fred Fejes, Florida Atlantic University

James Allan, New School University

Edward Alwood,Quinnipiac University, Connecticut

John D’Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago

Queers in Dataspace

Friday, February 20, 2004
1–4 p.m.

Jillana Enteen,Northwestern University

David J. Phillips,University of Texas, Austin

Alan Ellis, Independent Scholar, Phoenix

Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago

Pop Out World

Friday, March 12, 2004
1–4 p.m.

Amit Kama, The Open University of Israel

John Nguyet Erni, City University of Hong Kong

Vincent Doyle, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Deirdre McCloskey,University of Illinois at Chicago

S Y M P O S I U M

Friday, April 2, 2004
8:30 a.m. – 9 p.m

P A R T I C I P A N T S

Larry Gross, University of Southern California

Ken Sherrill, Hunter College, City University of New York

Lisa Henderson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Joshua P. Gamson, University of San Francisco

Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago

Todd Mundt, Former Host, NPR “The Todd Mundt Show”

Suzanna Walters, Georgetown University

Gavin Jack, University of Leicester, UK

Marguerite Moritz, University of Colorado

Jaime Hovey, University of Illinois at Chicago

Katherine Sender, University of Pennsylvania

Van Cagle, GLAAD Center for the Study of Media & Society

Ellen Meyers, Office of Illinois Secretary of State

Laura Kipnis, Northwestern University

Chicago Journalists

Studs Terkel, Former Host, WFMT-FM, Chicago

I N F O R M A T I O N

Media/Queered happens January through April 2004 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, check here for details and regular updates, or write to the program organizer, Kevin G. Barnhurst. (Please note: The mail links on this site are broken. To send mail, copy the link to the clipboard, paste it into the e-mail recipient field, and change the parentheses to an at sign.)

All events are free and open to the public. For the symposium, space is limited.Registration is required for the symposium only. Write for details or call (312) 996-6352, fax 312.996.2938, or e-mail Linda Vavra.

To watch, click on the speaker’s name, then on Watch the Video. To see the discussion, click on the event title and scroll to Q&A Session.

Sponsors of Media/Queered events include Skornia Lectureship Fund, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and, at UIC, the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues, the Humanities Laboratory, the Institute for the Humanities, Dean Stanley Fish of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Department of Communication, the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Director John D’Emilio of the Gender & Women’s Studies Program, the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women, the Office of Women’s Affairs, the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Asian Americans, and the Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Political Science, Art History, and English.

AMERICAN ISLAMS
Thursday, April 15, 2004

The Institute for the Humanities
at the University of Illinois at Chicago

presents a conference:

AMERICAN ISLAMS
Thursday, April 15, 2004

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States. This conference explores the multiplicity of voices and experiences that contribute to American Islamic identities. Topics range from the growth of indigenous articulations of Islam to the role of immigrant communities in refashioning the Islamic message, from teaching Islam in an academic setting to practicing Islam in a culturally pluralist society.

9.30 a.m.
Welcome
Mary Beth Rose, Director, Institute for the Humanities

9.45 a.m.
David Reisman, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Teaching Islam in America: The State and the Art”

10.30 a.m.
Louise Cainkar, University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Practice of Islam among Arab Immigrants to the U.S.:
Past, Present and Future”

11.15 a.m.
Norma Moruzzi, University of Illinois at Chicago
“A House Divided: Iranian-Americans and Islam”

12.30 p.m. – 1.45 p.m.
Lunch

2.00 p.m.
Michael Lieb, University of Illinois at Chicago
” ‘Above Top Secret’: The Nation of Islam and the Advent of the ‘Mother Plane’ ”

2.45 p.m.
Aminah Beverly McCloud, DePaul University
“The Quandary of American Islams: Muslim World Culture and American Muslim Communities”

4.00 p.m.
Keynote Lecture: Leila Ahmed
Victor S. Thomas, Professor of Divinity, Harvard University
“Women in Islam and America: Reflections On Where We Are Today”