The SU Madrid Center will be host for a weeklong conference and series of
workshops with Syracuse University's LGBT Studies Program in summer 2011. The
conference will be a capstone of "Transnationalizing LGBT Studies," one of 19
projects to receive funding through the
Chancellor's Leadership Projects initiative.
The award will allow the LGBT Studies Program and Minor to extend their
scholarship beyond national borders to engage questions of sexual and gender
identities, theories, communities, diasporas and politics from global and transnational
perspectives.
The conference in Madrid will bring together leading U.S. and European scholars,
faculty and students to develop sustainable LGBT research and pedagogy networks.
In preparation for this conference, the LGBT Studies Program will host a yearlong
speaker series, a faculty reading group and a regional conference/workshop in
summer 2010 on the SU campus.
"As teachers and scholars, we are eager to enlarge the frame of analysis for doing
LGBT/Queer scholarship and for designing LGBT/Queer courses both here and in an
international setting such as SU Madrid that take seriously what it means when
sexuality and gender travel across borders in exciting, uneven and complicated
ways," says Margaret Himley, co-director of the LGBT Studies Program and Minor.
"For example, what happens when U.S. faculty and students encounter queer
identities and politics in Spain, and rethink the mainstreaming of gay and lesbian
identity as a consumer lifestyle in the U.S.? This is a mere sample of the exciting,
challenging, necessary encounters across borders that we will be exploring on
campus and in Madrid."
In addition to attracting faculty from Spain and other European countries to expand
the SU LGBT Studies Program's capacity for leadership in the field, the project will
further enhance the relationship between SU LGBT Studies and SU Madrid. "This is
an exciting collaboration," says center director Paul Moran. "We pledge our full
support and commitment to this and future projects with the SU LGBT Studies
Program."
For more information, contact Margaret Himley at 443-4947 or
mrhimley@syr.edu.
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