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The Feminist Theory Workshop: March 23-24, 2007 at Duke University

****STATISTICS ON WORKSHOP ATTENDEES****

NEW! Watch and listen to our speakers on streaming video:

Robyn Wiegman, Opening Remarks, Knowing What We Mean

Clare Hemmings, What is a Feminist Theorist Responsible for?

Inderpal Grewal, Feminism, Security and the State

Lisa Lowe, The Gender of Sovereignty

Hortense Spillers, Women and the Citizen: Some Remarks on the Present

Elizabeth Grosz, The Future of Feminist Theory: Dreams for New Knowledges

KEYNOTE LECTURES, SEMINAR LEADERS/PLENARY PARTICIPANTS
SCHEDULE
LOGISTICS
SPONSORS

A two day event featuring keynote lectures and working seminars

As an interdisciplinary field, Women's Studies has long been in critical conversation with a variety of disciplines, such that its languages of analysis, methodological priorities, and histories of research and writing are often recognizably situated in relation to the disciplinary identities of its practitioners. In recent years however, with the international growth of PhD programs, there has been much discussion and speculation about the extent to which Women's Studies has (or should have) its own post-disciplinary or transdisciplinary mode of inquiry. Posed as a question, the field asks itself: does Women's Studies have a distinctive tradition of inquiry of its own? The answer of course is nothing if not debatable, but the chief candidate for affirmation is the seemingly amorphormous entity, feminist theory . It is typically the name of the one course that students in every undergraduate and graduate curriculum are required to take, and it serves as an acknowledged critical domain for debates that cross both disciplinary and national lines.

We call our planned event for March 2007 a workshop to foreground our interest in feminist theory as a scholarly domain of inquiry. Therefore, in keeping with the interdisciplinary impulse central to Women's Studies as a field, we will resist consolidating feminist theory into a canon of great works or privileged authors, or prioritizing it as a specific kind of methodological project. The Workshop will be organized pedagogically to promote intense study, featuring both keynote lectures by internationally known scholars and small working seminars for participants.

READINGS
Keynote speakers have been asked to suggest two readings to complement their lectures. Attendees are asked to access the Readings for the workshop in order to be able to effectively participate in Workshop discussions.

Inderpal Grewal:

Elizabeth Grosz:

Clare Hemmings:

Lisa Lowe:

Hortense Spillers:

KEYNOTE LECTURES, SEMINAR LEADERS AND PLENARY PARTICIPANTS:

Tina Campt (Seminar Leader and Moderator) joined the Duke faculty in 2002 and is Associate Professor in Women's Studies and History. Her work focuses on gender, memory and racial formation among African diasporic communities in Europe, and Germany in particular. Campt is the author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich . Campt is currently beginning work on a comparative project examining the role of memory in the articulation of Black German and Black British diasporic identities in postwar Europe.

Eva Cherniavsky (Seminar Leader and Closing Plenary) is Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture and affiliated faculty in Women's Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in 19th-C America (Indiana University Press 1995) and of Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Her current research transformations in the norms and practices of citizenship in the context of neoliberal governance.

Ann Cvetkovich (Seminar Leader) is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is the organizer of the LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992) and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003). She edited, with Ann Pellegrini, "Public Sentiments," a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online (www.barnard.edu/sfonline ). She is also editor, with Annamarie Jagose, of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. She is currently working collaboratively on the subject of Public Feelings and writing a book about depression.

Inderpal Grewal (Keynote Speaker and Seminar Leader) is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California at Irvine . Her research interests include transnational and postcolonial feminist theory; feminism and human rights, NGO's and theories of civil society and citizenship; law and subjectivity; travel and mobility; and South Asian cultural studies. Her writings include An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (with Caren Kaplan; McGraw-Hill, 2001); Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel (Duke, 1996); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (with Caren Kaplan; Minnesota, 1994); and Transnational America : Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (Duke, 2005). She is co editor of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies series at Duke University Press and former chair of Women's Studies at UC-Irvine and San Francisco State University . She is currently working on militarism, feminism, and security discourses.

Elizabeth Grosz (Keynote Speaker and Seminar Leader) is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her areas of interest include contemporary French philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and the body, and theories of time and space. Her writings include books Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Read Space (MIT, 2001); Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (Routledge, 1995); Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Indiana, 1994); Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (Routledge, 1990); and Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (Unwin and Hyman, 1989). Most recently she has published Nick Of Time: Politics, Evolution, And The Untimely (Duke University Press, 2005) and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) (Duke University Press, 2005).

Sabine Hark (Closing Plenary) is currently Professor for Gender Studies at the Technical University of Berlin. She is the author of deviante Subjekte. Die paradoxe Politik der Identität (1999) ( deviant Subjects. On the paradoxes of identity politics ) and Dissidente Partizipation. Eine Diskursgeschichte des Feminismus (2005) ( Dissident Participation. A discourse history of feminism ), and of numerous articles on feminist theory, queer theory, sexual politics and rights, inter- and transdisciplinarity in women's studies, and sexual citizenship. She edited Grenzen lesbischer Identitäten (1996) ( Borders of Lesbian Identities ) and a reader in feminist theory, DisKontinuitäten: Feministische Theorie (2001) ( DisContinuities: Feminist Theory ), and co-edited Gender kontrovers. Genealogien und Grenzen einer Kategorie (2006) ( Controversial Gender. Genealogies and Limitations of a Category ) and Queering Demokratie. Sexuelle Politiken (2000) ( Queering Democracy. Sexual Politics ). Recent research interests include a) questions of knowledge transformation, b) the intersectionality of heteronormativity and gender, c) sexual citizenship, and d) new forms of social exclusion.

Clare Hemmings (Keynote Speaker and Seminar Leader) is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics . Her teaching and research interests reflect her interdisciplinary background and are focused in three main areas: sexuality and space; feminist historiography: and feminist epistemology and methodology. Her writings include Bisexual Spaces: a Geography of Sexuality and Gender (Routledge, 2002); The Feminist Seventies (Raw Nerve Books, 2003); and her co-edited collection The Bisexual Imaginary (Cassell, 1997). Her forthcoming book T elling Feminist Stories, critiques dominant progress narratives within Western English-speaking feminist theory, arguing for a more nuanced engagement with the recent feminist past.

Karla F.C. Holloway (Closing Plenary) is the William R. Kenan Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. She also holds appointments in African and African-American Studies and Women’s Studies. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of literature, law, gender, and ethics in African American cultural studies. She is the author of six books, including most recently BookMarks: Reading in Black and White (Rutgers UP, 2006) which she completed in Bellagio, Italy, as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow. “Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic” is forthcoming from meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (7.3). Her current work-in-progress is Private Bodies/Public Texts: Bioethics and the Problem of Identity, an exploration of contemporary issues of gender and race in science studieswith a particular emphasis on genomics.

Ranjana Khanna (Seminar Leader and Moderator) is Associate Professor in the Department of English, the Program in Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University, where she focuses on literature and psychoanalytic, postcolonial and feminist theory. Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism was published by Duke University Press in 2003, and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present will appear from Stanford University Press in 2007. Khanna is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her new project on Asylum: The Concept and the Practice, links one form of asylum's institutional setting (the mental asylum) to its most expansive version (the nation) in order to examine the complex relationship between sovereignty, institutions, living bodies, citizenship, and concepts of both the human and the valuable. She is the in-coming director of Women's Studies at Duke.

Lisa Lowe (Keynote Speaker) is Professor of Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of California at San Diego . Her research and teaching interests span modern French, British, and American Studies. She has worked extensively on issues of Asian migration within European and American modernity; orientalism; Marxist theory; critical race studies; and globalization. Her writings include The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (with David Lloyd; Duke, 1997); Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke, 1996); and Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell,1991). Her current project, The Intimacies of Four Continents, is a study of the international conditions for modern humanism and humanistic knowledge.

Wahneema Lubiano (Seminar Leader) is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University. Before coming to Duke she taught at Princeton, the University of Texas at Austin, and Williams College. Her essays and articles have been published in a variety of interdisciplinary venues, including Social Text, Cultural Critique, boundary 2, American Literary History, Callaloo, and New England Quarterly. She is the editor of The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain (1996) and author of the forthcoming books, Messing With the Machine: Politics, Form and African-American Fiction and Like Being Mugged by a Metaphor: "Deep Cover" and Other "Black" Fictions. Her current research interests include African-American literature, African-American popular culture and film, feminist theory, and black intellectual history.

Hortense Spillers (Keynote Speaker) is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University . Her research and teaching has ranged from African diasporic literary and cultural criticism to the intersection of psychoanalysis and Black feminist criticism, and several essays, including "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe," are now signal pieces in contemporary feminist theory. Her writings are collected in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago, 2003). She is editor of Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text (Routledge, 1991) and Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition (Indiana, 1985). She is currently working on a project on black world cities.

Rebecca Stein (Moderator) is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies at Duke. Her work examines the relationship between Israeli cultural politics and transnational political processes in the Middle East in the context of the ongoing Israeli occupation and history of Palestinian dispossession. She is the author of National Itineraries: Tourism, Coloniality, and Cultural Politics in Contemporary Israel (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and coeditor of Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke, 2005) and The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford, 2006). She is currently working on a new project entitled Repossessions: The Social Life of Palestinian Things in Jewish Israel, that considers the circulation of Palestinian objects in Jewish-Israeli affective economies. Her work on Israeli cultural politics has appeared in such journals as Social Text, Public Culture, Theory and Event, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Middle East Report.

Jennifer Terry (Seminar Leader and Moderator) is Associate Professor of Women's Studies with affiliations in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, the Art, Computing, and Engineering PhD Program, and the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California at Irvine. She is the coordinator of the Queer Studies program at UCI, and became the director of the Program in Women's Studies in July of 2005, following the directorship of Inderpal Grewal. Her research is concentrated in Feminist Cultural Studies; Science and Technology studies; comparative and historical formations of gender, race, and sexuality; critical approaches to modernity; and American studies in transnational perspective. Professor Terry came to UCI after a decade of academic employment at UC Berkeley and Ohio State University. She received her PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 1992. She is the author of An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and co-editor of Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 1995) and Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life (Routledge, 1997). Terry is now working on a project presently titled Killer Entertainments: Militarism, Governmentality, and Consuming Desires in Transnational America.

Antonio Viego (Moderator) is Assistant Professor in the Program in Literature and Romance Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and he has written essays on Chicano video and film, contemporary lesbian and gay Chicano & Latino literatures, and Latino Studies and psychoanalytic theory. He teaches courses on Cuban-American literature, Latino literary and cultural studies, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, queer ethnic studies and lesbian and gay theory. His first book, Ruining Ethnicity and Race: Latino Studies, Psychoanalysis and Ego Psychology, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2007. His second book project, Latino Histories of Sorrow and Anxiety: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Latinization of the U.S. But Were Afraid to Feel continues to explore the promise of Lacanian theory for Latino Studies and the promise of Latino Studies for Lacanian Studies, dramatizing the links between Lacanian theory's "barred subject" and Latino Studies' theory of the "border subject."

Robyn Wiegman (Seminar Leader and Moderator) is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor in Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University. She has taught at Syracuse, Indiana, and the University of California, Irvine, where she also directed the Women's Studies Program. Her publications include American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (1995), Who Can Speak: Identity and Critical Authority (1995), Feminism Beside Itself (1995), AIDS and the National Body (1997), The Futures of American Studies (2002), and Women's Studies on Its Own (2002). She is currently completing two book projects: Being in Time With Feminism, which focuses on the institutionalization of feminism in the U.S. academy; and Object Lessons: The U.S. Knowledge Politics of Identity, which pays attention to relations of identification and affect in the constitution of identity objects of study.

SCHEDULE
Friday, March 23, 2007

REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN AT 1:00 PM AT THE SANFORD INSTITUTE

2:00 pm .......... Robyn Wiegman, Opening Remarks, Knowing What We Mean

2:45 ................ Clare Hemmings, Keynote, What is a Feminist Theorist Responsible for? Moderator: Tina Campt, Duke University

4:15 ................ Break

4:30 ................ Seminar

6:00 ................ Dinner Buffet - Sanford Commons

7:30 ................ Inderpal Grewal, Keynote, Feminism, Security and the State
Moderator: Rebecca Stein, Duke University

Saturday, March 24, 2007

10:00 am ........ Lisa Lowe, Keynote, The Gender of Sovereignty
Moderator: Jennifer Terry, University of California, Irvine

11:30 .............. Seminar

12:45 pm ........ Lunch - Sanford Commons

1:45 ................Hortense Spillers, Keynote, Women and the Citizen: Some Remarks on the Present
Moderator: Antonio Viego, Duke University

3:15 ................ Break

3:30 ................ Elizabeth Grosz, Keynote, The Future of Feminist Theory: Dreams for New Knowledges
Moderator: Ranjana Khanna, Duke University

5:00 ................ Break

5:15 ................ Closing Plenary: Eva Cherniavsky, University of Washington; Sabine Hark, Technical University of Berlin; Karla Holloway, Duke University
Moderator: Robyn Wiegman, Duke University

6:30................Workshop Ends

LOGISTICS:

Duke University Interactive Map

West Campus Map and Location of the Sanford Institute (printable)

A peek inside the Sanford Institute

Terry Sanford Institute Interactive Map

Terry Sanford Institute Directions and Parking

Additional University Parking Information (all lots will be open on Saturday)

If you are traveling from East Campus on Friday you can take Bus C-3 and get off at the 2nd stop on Towerview before the turn onto Science Drive. The schedule and a map of the route are available here.

Local Hotels (pdf)

Local Restaurants (Word)

Many thanks to our sponsors including the following Duke University Departments:

African and African American Studies
Asian and African Languages and Literature
Duke University Center for International Studies
Cultural Anthropology
Duke University Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research
English Department
History Department
Institute for Global Studies in Humanities
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Literature Program
Office of the President (Richard Brodhead)
Office of the Provost (Peter Lange)
Philosophy Department
Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Institutional Co-Sponsors:

The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Cornell University
Institute for Women's Studies, University of Georgia
Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine
Women's Research and Resource Center, Spelman College
Women's Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois , Chicago
Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
Women and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Women's Studies at Emory University
Gender and Women's Studies at University of California at Berkeley
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University

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			**STATISTICS ON WORKSHOP ATTENDEES** NEW! Watch and listen to our speakers on streaming video: Robyn Wiegman, Opening Remarks, Knowing What We Mean Clare Hemmings, What is a Feminist Theorist Responsible for? Inderpal Grewal, Feminism, Security and the State Lisa Lowe, The Gender of Sovereignty Hortense Spillers, Women and the Citizen: Some Remarks on the Present Elizabeth Grosz, The Future of Feminist Theory: Dreams for New Knowledges KEYNOTE LECTURES, SEMINAR LEADERS/PLENARY PARTICIPANTS SCHEDULE LOGISTICS SPONSORS A two day event featuring keynote lectures and working seminars As an interdisciplinary field, Women's Studies has long been in critical conversation with a variety of disciplines, such that its languages of analysis, methodological priorities, and histories of research and writing are often recognizably situated in relation to the disciplinary identities of its practitioners. In recent years however, with the international growth of PhD programs, there has been much discussion and speculation about the extent to which Women's Studies has (or should have) its own post-disciplinary or transdisciplinary mode of inquiry. Posed as a question, the field asks itself: does Women's Studies have a distinctive tradition of inquiry of its own? The answer of course is nothing if not debatable, but the chief candidate for affirmation is the seemingly amorphormous entity, feminist theory . It is typically the name of the one course that students in every undergraduate and graduate curriculum are required to take, and it serves as an acknowledged critical domain for debates that cross both disciplinary and national lines. We call our planned event for March 2007 a workshop to foreground our interest in feminist theory as a scholarly domain of inquiry. Therefore, in keeping with the interdisciplinary impulse central to Women's Studies as a field, we will resist consolidating feminist theory into a canon of great works or privileged authors, or prioritizing it as a specific kind of methodological project. The Workshop will be organized pedagogically to promote intense study, featuring both keynote lectures by internationally known scholars and small working seminars for participants. READINGS Keynote speakers have been asked to suggest two readings to complement their lectures. Attendees are asked to access the Readings for the workshop in order to be able to effectively participate in Workshop discussions. Inderpal Grewal: Elizabeth Grosz: Clare Hemmings: Lisa Lowe: Hortense Spillers: KEYNOTE LECTURES, SEMINAR LEADERS AND PLENARY PARTICIPANTS: Tina Campt (Seminar Leader and Moderator) joined the Duke faculty in 2002 and is Associate Professor in Women's Studies and History. Her work focuses on gender, memory and racial formation among African diasporic communities in Europe, and Germany in particular. Campt is the author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich . Campt is currently beginning work on a comparative project examining the role of memory in the articulation of Black German and Black British diasporic identities in postwar Europe. Eva Cherniavsky (Seminar Leader and Closing Plenary) is Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture and affiliated faculty in Women's Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in 19th-C America (Indiana University Press 1995) and of Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Her current research transformations in the norms and practices of citizenship in the context of neoliberal governance. Ann Cvetkovich (Seminar Leader) is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is the organizer of the LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers, 1992) and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke, 2003). She edited, with Ann Pellegrini, "Public Sentiments," a special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online (www.barnard.edu/sfonline ). She is also editor, with Annamarie Jagose, of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. She is currently working collaboratively on the subject of Public Feelings and writing a book about depression. Inderpal Grewal (Keynote Speaker and Seminar Leader) is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California at Irvine . Her research interests include transnational and postcolonial feminist theory; feminism and human rights, NGO's and theories of civil society and citizenship; law and subjectivity; travel and mobility; and South Asian cultural studies. Her writings include An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (with Caren Kaplan; McGraw-Hill, 2001); Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel (Duke, 1996); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (with Caren Kaplan; Minnesota, 1994); and Transnational America : Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (Duke, 2005). She is co editor of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies series at Duke University Press and former chair of Women's Studies at UC-Irvine and San Francisco State University . She is currently working on militarism, feminism, and security discourses. Elizabeth Grosz (Keynote Speaker and Seminar Leader) is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her areas of interest include contemporary French philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and the body, and theories of time and space. Her writings include books Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Read Space (MIT, 2001); Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (Routledge, 1995); Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Indiana, 1994); Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (Routledge, 1990); and Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (Unwin and Hyman, 1989). Most recently she has published Nick Of Time: Politics, Evolution, And The Untimely (Duke University Press, 2005) and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) (Duke University Press, 2005). Sabine Hark (Closing Plenary) is currently Professor for Gender Studies at the Technical University of Berlin. She is the author of deviante Subjekte. Die paradoxe Politik der Identität (1999) ( deviant Subjects. On the paradoxes of identity politics ) and Dissidente Partizipation. Eine Diskursgeschichte des Feminismus (2005) ( Dissident Participation. A discourse history of feminism ), and of numerous articles on feminist theory, queer theory, sexual politics and rights, inter- and transdisciplinarity in women's studies, and sexual citizenship. She edited Grenzen lesbischer Identitäten (1996) ( Borders of Lesbian Identities ) and a reader in feminist theory, DisKontinuitäten: Feministische Theorie (2001) ( DisContinuities: Feminist Theory ), and co-edited Gender kontrovers. Genealogien und Grenzen einer Kategorie (2006) ( Controversial Gender. Genealogies and Limitations of a Category ) and Queering Demokratie. Sexuelle Politiken (2000) ( Queering Democracy. Sexual Politics ). Recent research interests include a) questions of knowledge transformation, b) the intersectionality of heteronormativity and gender, c) sexual citizenship, and d) new forms of social exclusion. Clare Hemmings (Keynote Speaker and Seminar Leader) is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics . Her teaching and research interests reflect her interdisciplinary background and are focused in three main areas: sexuality and space; feminist historiography: and feminist epistemology and methodology. Her writings include Bisexual Spaces: a Geography of Sexuality and Gender (Routledge, 2002); The Feminist Seventies (Raw Nerve Books, 2003); and her co-edited collection The Bisexual Imaginary (Cassell, 1997). Her forthcoming book T elling Feminist Stories, critiques dominant progress narratives within Western English-speaking feminist theory, arguing for a more nuanced engagement with the recent feminist past. Karla F.C. Holloway (Closing Plenary) is the William R. Kenan Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. She also holds appointments in African and African-American Studies and Women’s Studies. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of literature, law, gender, and ethics in African American cultural studies. She is the author of six books, including most recently BookMarks: Reading in Black and White (Rutgers UP, 2006) which she completed in Bellagio, Italy, as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow. “Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic” is forthcoming from meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (7.3). Her current work-in-progress is Private Bodies/Public Texts: Bioethics and the Problem of Identity, an exploration of contemporary issues of gender and race in science studieswith a particular emphasis on genomics. Ranjana Khanna (Seminar Leader and Moderator) is Associate Professor in the Department of English, the Program in Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University, where she focuses on literature and psychoanalytic, postcolonial and feminist theory. Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism was published by Duke University Press in 2003, and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present will appear from Stanford University Press in 2007. Khanna is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her new project on Asylum: The Concept and the Practice, links one form of asylum's institutional setting (the mental asylum) to its most expansive version (the nation) in order to examine the complex relationship between sovereignty, institutions, living bodies, citizenship, and concepts of both the human and the valuable. She is the in-coming director of Women's Studies at Duke. Lisa Lowe (Keynote Speaker) is Professor of Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of California at San Diego . Her research and teaching interests span modern French, British, and American Studies. She has worked extensively on issues of Asian migration within European and American modernity; orientalism; Marxist theory; critical race studies; and globalization. Her writings include The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (with David Lloyd; Duke, 1997); Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke, 1996); and Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell,1991). Her current project, The Intimacies of Four Continents, is a study of the international conditions for modern humanism and humanistic knowledge. Wahneema Lubiano (Seminar Leader) is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University. Before coming to Duke she taught at Princeton, the University of Texas at Austin, and Williams College. Her essays and articles have been published in a variety of interdisciplinary venues, including Social Text, Cultural Critique, boundary 2, American Literary History, Callaloo, and New England Quarterly. She is the editor of The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain (1996) and author of the forthcoming books, Messing With the Machine: Politics, Form and African-American Fiction and Like Being Mugged by a Metaphor: "Deep Cover" and Other "Black" Fictions. Her current research interests include African-American literature, African-American popular culture and film, feminist theory, and black intellectual history. Hortense Spillers (Keynote Speaker) is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University . Her research and teaching has ranged from African diasporic literary and cultural criticism to the intersection of psychoanalysis and Black feminist criticism, and several essays, including "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe," are now signal pieces in contemporary feminist theory. Her writings are collected in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago, 2003). She is editor of Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text (Routledge, 1991) and Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition (Indiana, 1985). She is currently working on a project on black world cities. Rebecca Stein (Moderator) is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies at Duke. Her work examines the relationship between Israeli cultural politics and transnational political processes in the Middle East in the context of the ongoing Israeli occupation and history of Palestinian dispossession. She is the author of National Itineraries: Tourism, Coloniality, and Cultural Politics in Contemporary Israel (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and coeditor of Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke, 2005) and The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford, 2006). She is currently working on a new project entitled Repossessions: The Social Life of Palestinian Things in Jewish Israel, that considers the circulation of Palestinian objects in Jewish-Israeli affective economies. Her work on Israeli cultural politics has appeared in such journals as Social Text, Public Culture, Theory and Event, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Middle East Report. Jennifer Terry (Seminar Leader and Moderator) is Associate Professor of Women's Studies with affiliations in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Film and Media Studies, the Art, Computing, and Engineering PhD Program, and the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California at Irvine. She is the coordinator of the Queer Studies program at UCI, and became the director of the Program in Women's Studies in July of 2005, following the directorship of Inderpal Grewal. Her research is concentrated in Feminist Cultural Studies; Science and Technology studies; comparative and historical formations of gender, race, and sexuality; critical approaches to modernity; and American studies in transnational perspective. Professor Terry came to UCI after a decade of academic employment at UC Berkeley and Ohio State University. She received her PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 1992. She is the author of An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and co-editor of Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 1995) and Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life (Routledge, 1997). Terry is now working on a project presently titled Killer Entertainments: Militarism, Governmentality, and Consuming Desires in Transnational America. Antonio Viego (Moderator) is Assistant Professor in the Program in Literature and Romance Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and he has written essays on Chicano video and film, contemporary lesbian and gay Chicano & Latino literatures, and Latino Studies and psychoanalytic theory. He teaches courses on Cuban-American literature, Latino literary and cultural studies, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, queer ethnic studies and lesbian and gay theory. His first book, Ruining Ethnicity and Race: Latino Studies, Psychoanalysis and Ego Psychology, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2007. His second book project, Latino Histories of Sorrow and Anxiety: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Latinization of the U.S. But Were Afraid to Feel continues to explore the promise of Lacanian theory for Latino Studies and the promise of Latino Studies for Lacanian Studies, dramatizing the links between Lacanian theory's "barred subject" and Latino Studies' theory of the "border subject." Robyn Wiegman (Seminar Leader and Moderator) is Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor in Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University. She has taught at Syracuse, Indiana, and the University of California, Irvine, where she also directed the Women's Studies Program. Her publications include American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (1995), Who Can Speak: Identity and Critical Authority (1995), Feminism Beside Itself (1995), AIDS and the National Body (1997), The Futures of American Studies (2002), and Women's Studies on Its Own (2002). She is currently completing two book projects: Being in Time With Feminism, which focuses on the institutionalization of feminism in the U.S. academy; and Object Lessons: The U.S. Knowledge Politics of Identity, which pays attention to relations of identification and affect in the constitution of identity objects of study. SCHEDULE Friday, March 23, 2007 REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN AT 1:00 PM AT THE SANFORD INSTITUTE 2:00 pm .......... Robyn Wiegman, Opening Remarks, Knowing What We Mean 2:45 ................ Clare Hemmings, Keynote, What is a Feminist Theorist Responsible for? Moderator: Tina Campt, Duke University 4:15 ................ Break 4:30 ................ Seminar 6:00 ................ Dinner Buffet - Sanford Commons 7:30 ................ Inderpal Grewal, Keynote, Feminism, Security and the State Moderator: Rebecca Stein, Duke University Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:00 am ........ Lisa Lowe, Keynote, The Gender of Sovereignty Moderator: Jennifer Terry, University of California, Irvine 11:30 .............. Seminar 12:45 pm ........ Lunch - Sanford Commons 1:45 ................Hortense Spillers, Keynote, Women and the Citizen: Some Remarks on the Present Moderator: Antonio Viego, Duke University 3:15 ................ Break 3:30 ................ Elizabeth Grosz, Keynote, The Future of Feminist Theory: Dreams for New Knowledges Moderator: Ranjana Khanna, Duke University 5:00 ................ Break 5:15 ................ Closing Plenary: Eva Cherniavsky, University of Washington; Sabine Hark, Technical University of Berlin; Karla Holloway, Duke University Moderator: Robyn Wiegman, Duke University 6:30................Workshop Ends LOGISTICS: Duke University Interactive Map West Campus Map and Location of the Sanford Institute (printable) A peek inside the Sanford Institute Terry Sanford Institute Interactive Map Terry Sanford Institute Directions and Parking Additional University Parking Information (all lots will be open on Saturday) If you are traveling from East Campus on Friday you can take Bus C-3 and get off at the 2nd stop on Towerview before the turn onto Science Drive. The schedule and a map of the route are available here. Local Hotels (pdf) Local Restaurants (Word) Many thanks to our sponsors including the following Duke University Departments: African and African American Studies Asian and African Languages and Literature Duke University Center for International Studies Cultural Anthropology Duke University Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research English Department History Department Institute for Global Studies in Humanities John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Literature Program Office of the President (Richard Brodhead) Office of the Provost (Peter Lange) Philosophy Department Slavic and Eurasian Studies Institutional Co-Sponsors: The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Cornell University Institute for Women's Studies, University of Georgia Women's Studies, University of Arizona Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine Women's Research and Resource Center, Spelman College Women's Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois , Chicago Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota Women and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto Women's Studies at Emory University Gender and Women's Studies at University of California at Berkeley Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University UPDATE YOUR REGISTRATION