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Cathy Cohen, Vortrag/Workshop 12./13. Juni 2012
Race and Queer Theory in the Age of Obama
Vortrag: Dienstag 12. Juni 2012, 19.30
The talk will explore how changes in our understanding of the racialized state, as experienced in the United States in the era of President Obama for example, inform both queer theory and queer politics. Using the examples of the campaign against bullying and the struggle for same-sex marriage in the United States, I consider how race is directly deployed or inherently influences debates and battles over the status and scope of queer subjects. Correspondingly, given the significance of race in the intimate sphere, at least in the U. S., I consider what insights might be gained from centering the work of black queer theorists and activists as academics and activists re-imagine the politics of intimacy.
Black Queer Theory and neoliberalism
Workshop: Mittwoch 13. Juni 2012, 13.00 – 17.00
In this workshop we will explore how the policies and rhetoric of neoliberalism impact and reshape the intimate sphere, using it as a site for state intervention while deploying the language of privatization. This use of the intimate sphere as a site of regulation is not new. For example, the intimate sphere has always been a heightened domain of regulation for racialized marginal communities. Understanding this, what lessons can we learn from the history of struggle in African-American communities over issues such as sex, desire and family? Specifically, we will explore what interventions in theory and practice might be developed from black queer theory to challenge the attack on or use of the intimate sphere in neoliberalism.
Please register for the workshop / bitte anmelden: mail@queer-institut.de
Cathy Cohen is professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of the groundbreaking 2005 antiracist queer essay “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens”.
Der Vortrag ist organisiert in Kooperation mit und finanziell unterstützt durch / The talk is organized in cooperation with and financially supported by
Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin (Prof. Cilja Harders) & Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung an der Freien Universität Berlin.Der Vortrag ist Teil der
Vortragsreihe 2011/2012
The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality: Queer Theory, the Aftermath of Colonial History, and the Late-Modern State
The lecture series is organized by Antke Engel, Institute for Queer Theory, in cooperation with the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (www.ici-berlin.org), which hosts the series. It is supported by Schwules Museum Berlin as well as other academic institutions and political organizations in Berlin who co-organize and sponsor individual lectures in the series.
Bossing Images. Macht der Bilder, queere Kunst und Politik
nächste Veranstaltung
Fr 01. Juni 2012, 19.00, NGBK Berlin,
Oranienstraße 25, Veranstaltungsraum (1.Stock)
Entgrenzende Linien / Decentering Lines
Eingeladen sind / Invited guests:
Zeichnungen von / drawings by Laylah Ali
Coco Fusco (New York)
Nana Adusei-Poku (Berlin)
Bossing Images ist ein Projekt der Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst NGBK (http://ngbk.de), organisiert von Antke Engel and Jess Dorrance (Institute for Queer Theory), unter Mitwirkung von Renate Lorenz.
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Audre Lorde:"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
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