The Third Annual
Bodies of Knowledge Symposium
University of South Carolina Upstate
March 18 - 19, 2010
The Third Annual Bodies of Knowledge Symposium and Conference at USC Upstate on March 18 - 19 features four truly extraordinary speakers: Rocco Kayiatos, Robert McRuer, S. Bear Bergman, and Laura Alexandra Harris.
The symposium has expanded this year to include two concurrent sessions of scholarly paper presentations, drawing students and scholars from throughout the region and beyond. Brunch and High Tea with pastries and hot hors d'ouevres provided free on Friday. The symposium kicks off with a screening of "Pick Up the Mic: The Homo-hop Revolution" and a spoken word performance by Katastrophe. Please join us in Spartanburg for this fabulous event!
Find out more about the schedule of papers/panels at the third annual Bodies of Knowledge Symposium and Conference.
THURSDAY, MARCH 18
KATASTROPHE (ROCCO KAYIATOS)
Rising trans-hop rap star
Featured artist, The Worst Amazing
- 7:00 P.M. - Screening of Pick Up the Mic: The Revolution of Homo-Hop
(HEC 2039) - 8:45 P.M. - Spoken Word Poetry
(HEC 2039) - 9:15 P.M. - Film Discussion
(HEC 2039)
FRIDAY, MARCH 19
ROCCO KAYIATOS
- 10:30 A.M. - The Worst Amazing Brunch: Writing for Performance
(CLC Ballroom)
ROBERT MCRUER
Editor, Crip Theory, on disability studies and queer theory
- 12:00 P.M. - Queer Enfreakment; or, Aliens of Extraordinary Disability Editor of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
(CLC Ballroom)
S. BEAR BERGMAN
Author, Butch Is a Noun and The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
- 3:00 P.M. - Sex and The Very Serious Transperson
(CLC Ballroom)
LAURA ALEXANDRA HARRIS
Editor, Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls and author, Queer Black Feminism: The Pleasure Principle
- 4:00 P.M. - Un/knowing and Un/being: The Pleasure/Danger of a Queer Black Fem/inist Nihilism
(CLC Ballroom)
The conference will open on the evening of March 18 with a screening of the documentary Pick Up the Mic on the QueerHop/TransHop movement. Concurrent sessions of panels will be scheduled for the morning of March 19. Keynote lectures will take place that afternoon and evening, with a dinner break between the second and third speakers. Information will be provided about local accommodations and amenities.
All attendees must register online for the symposium, even if you do not plan to attend every presentation.
Event sponsors are USC Upstate Student Life, WGS at Upstate, WGS at USC, PFLAG Greenville, and the Freeman Foundation.