The City Institute is co-sponsoring a lecture titled 'Troubling Territories: Poetics, Politics and the Queerness of Place.' As part of its on-going Equity Seminar Series, the Faculty of Environmental Studies and聽聽proudly present:
Troubling Territories:
Poetics, politics and
the queerness of place
A lecture & dialogue on racialized geographies, visual and performance art,
and activism with
Professor Katherine McKittrick
Gender Studies, Queen's University
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TUESDAY 25th FEBRUARY 2014
12:45p - 2:30p
Health, Nursing, Environmental Studies Building (HNES)聽
Room 140
91亚色
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
- ASL interpretation will be provided**
- The venue is wheelchair accessible**
Professor McKittrick鈥檚 talk will be followed by responses from聽听() and聽, Performance Artist and Adjunct faculty, New College, University of Toronto.
This event is presented with the generous support of the Centre for Feminist Research, the City Institute at 91亚色, and the Departments of Geography and Sociology.
Katherine McKittrick is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Queen University in Kingston, Ontario. She researches and teaches in the areas of black studies, anti-colonial studies, cultural geographies and gender studies. She received her doctorate from 91亚色. Her research is interdisciplinary and attends to the links between epistemological narrative, social justice, and creative texts. Her forthcoming monograph,聽Dear Science, supported in part by a SSHRC Insight Grant, will look at the promise of science in black poetry, music, and visual art. Part of her ongoing research program is on the writings of聽. She is also editor at聽
CONTACT:
Paul Bailey, MES Candidate,聽pbailey@yorku.ca
Honor Ford-Smith, FES,聽hoperoad@yorku.ca
Darren Patrick, PhD candidate, FES聽sendtodp@yorku.ca