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Co-organizers<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Anna Fishzon<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College specializing in modern Russian culture.\u00a0 She teaches courses on European cultural history, Stalinism, the history of fashion, nineteenth-century Russian intellectual history, and camp.\u00a0 Fishzon received a PhD from Columbia University and a BA from Duke University.\u00a0 She is the author of Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle Russia<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2013), and articles on sound recording and celebrity that appeared in Slavic Review<\/em> and Russian Review<\/em>.\u00a0 Her current book project considers late Soviet temporality and the queerness of Brezhnev-era childhood.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Anastasia Kayiatos<\/strong> earned a doctoral degree in Slavic and Women\u2019s Studies from the University of California\u2013Berkeley, where she also ran the working groups on Disability Studies and Socialisms & Sexualities from 2008-2012. Selections from her interdisciplinary dissertation on silence and alterity in post-Stalin Russia have been published in Women\u2019s Studies Quarterly<\/em> and Theatre Survey<\/em> (in English), the Journal of Social Policy Studies<\/em> (in Russian), and Astrolabio<\/em> (in Spanish).\u00a0 The Lambda Nordica <\/em>special issue on sexualities in transition contains her essay, “Shock and Alla: Capitalist Cures for Socialist Perversities at the End of the Twentieth Century.”\u00a0 Since joining the University of Southern California as a provost’s postdoctoral scholar in the humanities this past fall, Kayiatos has been pursuing her research on suggestive gesture and queer socialist aesthetics.\u00a0 She will continue down this path next year as a Professor of Russian at Macalester College, and an affiliate faculty member of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the concentration in Critical Theory.<\/p>\n

Keynote Speaker<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jack Halberstam <\/strong>is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books, including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters<\/em> (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity<\/em> (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place<\/em> (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure<\/em> (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal <\/em>(Beacon Press, 2012) and has written articles that have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and collections. Halberstam is currently working on several projects, including a book on Fascism and (homo)sexuality.\u00a0 Halberstam has co-edited a number of anthologies, including Posthuman Bodies<\/em> with Ira Livingston (Indiana University Press, 1995) and a special issue of Social Text<\/em> with Jos\u00e9 Mu\u00f1oz\u00a0and David Eng titled \u201cWhat\u2019s Queer About Queer Studies Now?\u201d\u00a0 He is a popular speaker and gives lectures around the country and internationally every year.\u00a0 Lecture topics include: queer failure, sex and media, subcultures, visual culture, gender variance, popular film, animation.<\/p>\n

Paper Presenters and Panel Chairs
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Steven Bruhm<\/span><\/a><\/span>, University of Western Ontario<\/p>\n

Julie Cassiday<\/span><\/a>, Williams College<\/p>\n

Michael Cobb<\/span><\/a>, University of Toronto<\/p>\n

Brian Eugenio Herrera<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Princeton University<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Hidalgo<\/span><\/span><\/a>, Williams College<\/p>\n

Nat Hurley<\/span><\/a>, University of Alberta<\/p>\n

Lauren Kaminsky<\/span><\/a><\/span>, New York University<\/p>\n

Kenneth Kidd<\/span><\/a><\/span>, University of Florida<\/p>\n

Derritt Mason<\/span><\/a>, University of Alberta<\/p>\n

Tey Meadow<\/span><\/a>, Princeton University<\/p>\n

Allison Miller<\/span><\/a>, Rutgers University<\/p>\n

Gregory Mitchell<\/span><\/a>, Williams College<\/p>\n

Gail Newman<\/span><\/a>, Williams College<\/p>\n

Kevin Ohi<\/span><\/a>, Boston College<\/p>\n

Michael O’Loughlin<\/span><\/a><\/span>, PhD, Adelphi University<\/p>\n

Juana Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez<\/span><\/a><\/span>, University of California-Berkeley<\/p>\n

Leyla Rouhi<\/span><\/a>, Williams College<\/p>\n

Avgi Saketopoulou<\/span><\/a>, PsyD (NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis)<\/p>\n

Karen Sanchez-Eppler<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Amherst College<\/p>\n

Performers and Animators<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Rocco Katastrophe<\/a><\/p>\n

Kareem Khubchandani<\/a>, Northwestern University<\/p>\n

Hilary Goldberg<\/a><\/p>\n

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