The Centre for Feminist Research at 91亚色 presents the Summer Institute in Sexuality Studies (SISS) 2017, running June 5 to 9. This week-long event features free public lectures and this year will focus on the theme "Perversion at the Crossroads of Critical Race Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Queer Theory".
Lectures in this series aim to create a continuous transnational platform for emerging and established scholars to share innovative knowledge in sexuality studies. Its goal is to support graduate student research and training, provide a high-quality educational environment to develop theoretical frameworks and methodologies, and facilitate discussions between students and internationally renowned scholars as well as among peers.
SISS seeks to expand and deepen research within the field of sexuality studies, and therefore encourages collaboration between scholars and students working in areas of race and racism, colonization and postcolonial thought, whiteness studies, queer and trans studies, histories of sexology, critical psychology, BDSM and fetish communities, literature, poetry, visual arts, transnational sexualities, and citizenship studies.
This year's events include:
Monday, June 5, noon to 1:30pm, 519 Kaneff, 91亚色
Lecture by Aparna Mishra Tarc, 鈥淧edagogy and the perverse in Toni Morrison鈥檚 God Help the Child,鈥 introduced by Toby Wiggins.
Tuesday, June 6, 10 to 11:30am, DB 0014 鈥 Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building, 91亚色
Lecture by Trish Salah, 鈥淩ace as Kink: Reading Trans-Racial Fetishism,鈥 introduced by John Greyson.
Tuesday, June 6, 5 to 7pm, 25 Seaforth Ave., FAG Feminist Art Gallery
Art exhibition and reception with Emelie Chhangur, Jennifer Chan, and Jesika Joy, co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies.
Wednesday, June 7, 10 to 11:30am, 519 Kaneff, 91亚色
Roundtable: "Performing Perversion" with Amber Jamilla Musser and Trish Salah in conversation with John Greyson, Sheila Cavanagh and Emelie Chhangur, and chaired by Allyson Mitchell.
Wednesday, June 7, 12:30 to 2:30pm, 519 Kaneff, 91亚色
Lecture by Amber Jamilla Musser, 鈥淐arrie Mae Weems and the Question of Brown Jouissance,鈥 introduced by Sheila Cavanagh.
Thursday, June 8, 10 to 11:30am, 519 Kaneff, 91亚色
Lecture by David Eng, 鈥淩ace as Relation,鈥 introduced by David Murray.
Friday, June 9, 10 to 11:30am, 519 Kaneff, 91亚色
Roundtable: "Thinking Perversion Transnationally" with David Eng and Aparna Mishra Tarc in conversation with David Murray and David Seitz, and chaired by Dai Kojima.
SISS is organized by the Centre for Feminist Research at 91亚色, in collaboration with the Sexuality Studies Program and the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women鈥檚 Studies.
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This event is supported by a Connection Grant from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the following areas at 91亚色: Office of the Vice President Academic & Provost; Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation; the Faculty of Education; the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies; the Faculty of Graduate Studies; the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women鈥檚 Studies; the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies; Glendon Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies Program; the Sexuality Studies Program; Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall Law School; Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought; Department of Anthropology; Department of History; Department of Political Science; Department of Social Science; and the Centre for Feminist Research.
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