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
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD (New York)
“Re-writing the Law: the Exceptional Child.”
Greg Mitchell, Williams College
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
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.”