03/15/2012
Highlights of the Conference:
Friday, March 30
2:00pm -- Opening Remarks by Amy Villarejo, Nick Salvato, And Sara Warner
2:30pm - 4:30pm -- Panel One, Film Forum, “Sound It Out: Q***r/Ing Evidence,”
Robin Bernstein (Harvard), "Performing History In Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman And Alison Bechdel's Fun Home;" Eng-Beng Lim (Brown), "Pink Dot Noises From Singapore To Utah," Masha Raskolnikov (Cornell), "Freak Ontology: Body/Soul Dualism In Descartes, Butler And Tod Browning's Freaks," Natasha Hurley (U Alberta), "The Little Trans Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale," Moderator: Brían Hanrahan (Cornell)
4:30pm - 6:00pm -- Keynote #1, Film Forum, David Savran (Cuny Graduate Center), "The Q***r Brand On Broadway: The American Musical From Porter To The Book Of Mormon,"
Moderator: Ellen Gainor (Cornell)
6:00pm-7:30pm -- Dinner Break
7:30pm-8:30pm -- Performance Poetry, Flex Theatre, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon With The Accompaniment Of Mary Lorson, Moderator: Saida Hodžic (Cornell)
8:30pm-10:00pm – Performance, Flex Theatre, “I Was The Voice Of Democracy” By Brian Herrera, Moderator: Debra Castillo (Cornell)
Saturday, March 31
8:30am -- Coffee & Opening Remarks
9:00am-11:00am -- Panel Two, Film Forum, “Homo Phones: Q***r Timbres,” Susan Stryker (U Arizona), "Christine In The Cutting Room: Surgery, Cinema And Sound In Transs*xual Celebrity Christine Jorgensen's Media Career;" Margo Crawford (Cornell), "The Q***rness Of En(Chant)Ment," Jordan Schildcrout (Suny Purchase), "Bubble And Boom: S*x, Death, And The Apocalypse;” Brian Herrera (U New Mexico), "Autoethnography And The Audible Voice, Or The Q***r Hazards Of Re/Sounding My Phone S*x Years;" Moderator: Lucinda Ramberg (Cornell)
11:00am-11:30am – Performance, Film Forum, “The Girl Who Lost Her Voice” By Joan Lipkin Of That Uppity Theater Company, Moderator: Teresa Knight (Cornell)
11:30am-12:30pm -- Lunch Break
12:30pm-2:00pm – Presentation, Film Forum, “Reborn: Animating The Archive” By Moe Angelos Of The Builders Association, Moderator: Lindsay Cummings (Cornell)
2:00pm-4:00pm -- Panel Three, Film Forum, “Read My Lisp: Pink Noise,” José Muñoz (Nyu), "Performing The Punk Rock Commons: Q***r Germs," Shane Vogel (Indiana), "Duke Ellington's Q***r Transubstantiation And The Philosophy Of The History Of Jazz,"
Judith Peraino (Cornell), "Mick Jagger's Q***r Satisfaction," Ann Pellegrini (Nyu), "'Being Alive': Performing Beyond The Reality Principle," Moderator: Byron Suber (Cornell)
4:00pm-4:30pm -- Coffee
4:30pm-6:00pm -- Keynote #2, Kiplinger Theatre, John Waters, Filmmaker And Author, “This Filthy World”
6:00pm-7:45pm -- Dinner Break
8:00pm-10:00pm -- Evening Of Q***r Cabaret, Flex Theatre, Holly Hughes, Terry Galloway, Carmelita Tropicana, Light/Dred, MC: Clare Hane (Cornell)
Sunday, April 1
9:00am-10:30am -- Staged Reading, Film Forum, “Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England: An Academic S*x Comedy,” By Madeleine George, Directed By Beth Milles (Cornell), Moderator: Aoise Stratford (Cornell)
10:30am-12pm -- Keynote #3, Film Forum, Jill Dolan (Princeton), "Feeling Women's Culture: Women's Music, Le***an Feminism, And The Impact Of Emotional Memory,"
Moderator: Erin Hurley (McGill)
12:00pm-1:00pm -- Lunch Break
1:00pm-2:30pm – Roundtable, Film Forum, Moe Angelos, Jimmy Noriega, Susan Stryker, Carmelita Tropicana, Byron Suber, And Amy Villarejo, Moderators: Nick Salvato and Sara Warner (Cornell)