WGSS Research Initiatives

Posthumanities Speaker Series - April 2, 2015 
Jasbir Puar

The Humanities Center and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program will host Jasbir Puar as part of the "Posthumanities" speaker series on April 2, 2015 at 4pm in Linderman 200. Jasbir Puar's groundbreaking scholarship considers how "assemblages" trouble intersectional accounts of identity. Her 2007 book, Terrorist Assemblages, examines how nationalist and counterterrorist practices in the wake of September 11 reshape figurations of race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, and her new book, Affective Politics, analyzes disability, bodily assemblages, and identity. Her work is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, biopolitics, Deleuzean philosophy, and tecnhoscience criticism.

The Humanities Center and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program are organizing a reading group for interested faculty and graduate students in advance of Prof. Puar's visit. The group will meet in the Humanities Center living room on Friday, March 20th and Friday, March 27th at noon. In order to get a good sense of Prof. Puar's Terrorist Assemblages and her more recent scholarship, we will read a group of articles. At our first meeting, we will discuss "Queer Times, Queer Assemblages" and at our second meeting, we will discuss "I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess" and "Homonationalism As Assemblage." 

Interdisciplinary Faculty Research Brown Bag Series

This series brings together faculty from across the disciplines of Lehigh University who study aspects of identity, including attention to gender and sexuality, among other areas.

Link to Video "On Queer Studies and Interdisciplinary Education"   

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHwhGxffl8A)

Feminist and Queer Reading Group Series

In preparation for Janet Mock and Ryan Sallans' LU visit in October for a conversation hosted by LU Pride Center, The Pride Center, in partnership with WGSS, is sponsoring a reading group open to students, faculty, and staff to read and discuss their books (Redefining Realness by Janet Mock and Second Son by Ryan Sallans). Books will be provided -- space is limited.