The Gender and ICT (GENTIC) Research Group of the IN3 and the Research Group of Geography and Gender (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) organises this lecture by Dr. Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University, New Jersey).
The lecture will be held in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish.
This is an open event organized in the framework of the IV European Geographies of Sexualities Conference.
Venue
Espai Francesca Bonnemaison - La Sala
c/ Sant Pere Més Baix, 7
08003 Barcelona
Espanya
When
15/09/2017 18.30h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Co-organized by Gender & ICT Research Group of the IN3 (UOC) and the Research Group of Geography and Gender (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Program
Jasbir Puar is Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the association for Asian American studies. In this lecture she will reflect on the last ten years of homonationalism and its effects. Puar is especially interested in what the Trump presidency and other right-wing governments might suggest about the successes and failures of LGBTQ human rights platforms and about the elasticity of homonationalism. She finally points out that U.S. driven queer theoretical projects need to account for the U.S. as a generator of permanent war both globally and within its own boarders.