Reminder: The Queer Visual Culture Series sponsored by the LGBT Studies Program begins today (Tuesday, September 18) at 5:00 p.m. in the Watson Theater in Watson Hall. LGBT Studies Program Reception to follow at 6:15 at the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center.
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Professor Roger Hallas will introduce the series and discuss what exactly constitutes queer visual culture and why it has been so critical to LGBT identities and communities. Don't miss out on this great opportunity!
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY TO HOST A YEAR LONG SERIES
QUEER VISUAL CULTURE
Sponsored by the LGBT Studies Program & Minor and organized by Prof. Roger Hallas from the English Department, this year long series of lectures and films will discuss what queer visual culture is and why it has been so critical to LGBT identities and communities.
Professor Margaret Himley, co-director of the LGBT Studies Program, says, “This is the first series that the new LGBT Studies Program & Minor has sponsored, and we are excited that our focus is on visual culture, and most especially on film, as these representations are critical to how LGBT people and communities are understood, both by themselves and by others.”
Professor Hallas will begin the series with a lecture at 5 pm on September 18th in Watson Theater, to be followed by an opening year reception for all LGBT(A) faculty, students, staff, and community members at the Faculty Center at 6:15 pm. Prof. Hallas says “The demand for visibility has long been central to the political movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, but the issue of ‘being seen’ has a complicated history for queer people, involving not only liberation and expression, but also forms of surveillance and pathology. The notion of queer visual culture extends beyond the demand by LGBT communities to be represented in the public sphere and considers how acts of looking generate queer possibilities both in the mainstream and on the margins.”
There will be two film screenings, introduced by Prof. Hallas. At 7 pm on October 9th in Grant Auditorium in the College of Law, Karim Aïnouz’s award-winning film Madama Satã be will shown, a film about the explosive life of 1930s Brazilian legend João Francisco dos Santos, aka Madame Satã: drag queen, hustler, gangster, prince of thieves, and adoptive father.
Entitled “Queer Memory and the Archive of AIDS,” the screening at 7 pm on November 13th in Grant Auditorium in the College of Law will be three short videos that interrogate the archive of AIDS cultural activism in the 1980s and 1990s and raise important questions about queer memory: Smalltown Boys by Matt Wolf, Sea in Blood by Richard Fung, and Shatzi is Dying by Jean Carlomusto.
“FTM: Renditions of a Vector” is the title of a lecture by Professor Chris Straayer from NYU’s Cinema Studies program. She explores female-to-male transsexual discourses in contemporary film and video. Her talk is scheduled for October 25th at 5 pm in 500 Hall of Languages.
Hallas says, “I am very excited to have this opportunity to program such a diverse array of films and visiting speakers. They demonstrate the enormous range of possibilities for sexual, political and cultural expression within contemporary queer visual culture.”
Professor Andrew London, co-director of the LGBT Studies Program says, “We hope that this series of films and speakers will draw together large and diverse audiences, and starts a conversation that continues all year long. We know that there are many people from a range of queer and not-so-queer communities who feel a need to know more about LGBT/queer lives and experiences; we also know that film and other visual representations open up opportunities for discussion, learning, and understanding.”
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