Embodied Belongings: A Two-Day Symposium Exploring the Politics of 'Queer' in South Asia

Day two of Embodied Belongings: A Two-Day Symposium Exploring the Politics of 'Queer' in South Asia

This symposium brings together activists, performance artists and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, to a series of conversations about being, becoming and belonging in South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.  

9:15 a.m. Keynote Address

Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of sexuality, gender, health, and the politics of subject and community-formation in India, as well as within the immigrant South Asian queer community in the U.S. 

10:45-12:30 p.m. Panel 1:  On the Cutting Edge--Recent Graduate Research

1:30-3:15 p.m. Panel 2: Social Contours of Queer Belonging 

3:30-5:00 p.m.   Panel 3:  Queering Art and Literature

5:30-6:15  p.m. Reception

6:30 p.m. Reading by Shyam Selvadurai - Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of sexuality, gender, health, and the politics of subject and community-formation in India, as well as within the immigrant South Asian queer community in the U.S.

Open to the public. Lunch and coffee will be provided. 

For more information, please contact Juanita Horan at 315.443.4927.

Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.