GRIFFIN HALL, ROOM 3

May 4, 2013

1. QUEER PASTS: NARRATIVES OF DEVELOPMENT AND NORMATIVITY

Chair: Leyla Rouhi, Williams College

Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Amherst College

“Queering America’s Progress Narrative: The California Ruins of Leland Stanford Jr.”

Allison Miller, Rutgers University

“Progressive Penology Meets Youthful Queerness in the Interwar United States.”

Michael O’Loughlin, PhD, Adelphi University

“On Spectrality and History: Is a Normative Interpellated Childhood Inevitable?”

2. QUEER FUTURES: THE CHILD, THE LAW, AND THE QUESTION OF CONSENT

Chair: Anastasia Kayiatos, University of Southern California

Lauren Kaminsky, New York University

“What Does it Mean to Be an Adult if We Queer the Child? Laws of Consent in Comparative Perspective.”

Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD (New York)

“Re-writing the Law: the Exceptional Child.”

Greg Mitchell, Williams College

“Sex Panics, Child Prostitutes, and Global Sporting Events, or: How to Save a Sexually Precocious Child and Get a Luxury Hotel for Free.”

3. NATURE/NURTURE: QUEER ORIGIN STORIES

Chair: Jacqueline Hidalgo, Williams College

Tey Meadow, Princeton University

“Persisters, Desisters, Regretters: The New Science of Childhood Gender.”

Juana María Rodríguez, University of California, Berkeley

“Disciplinary Paternalism, or, Who’s Your Daddy?”

Kevin Ohi, Boston College

“Queer Origins.”

MAY 5, 2013

4. SPECTACULAR EXAMPLES: THE REPRESENTATION AND CULTIVATION OF QUEER KID-NESS

Chair: Julie Cassiday, Williams College

Steven Bruhm, Western University

“Serial Killing Serial Children: Dexter‘s Counterfeit Families.”

Michael Cobb, University of Toronto

“Just Adults: Protracted Infancies, Patti Smith, Lena Dunham, and Other Cool Catastrophes.”

Brian Eugenio Herrera, Princeton University

“Betterments, or Querying the Autobiographical Child.”

5. CHILDREN’S CULTURE

Chair: Gail Newman, Williams College

Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida

“P4C and the Child Philosophers.”

Nat Hurley, University of Alberta

“The Queer Non-Places of Children’s Literature.”

Derritt Mason, University of Alberta

“The Case of ParaNorman: The Visibility and Temporality of Queerness in Children’s Film.”