ORGANIZER: Jana Evans Braziel, Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
ACADEMIC ADDRESS: 431I North Hall, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, 1752 State Street, La Crosse, WI 54601. FAX (608) 785-8301.
EMAIL ADDRESS: evans_braziel@hotmail.com (evans_braziel@hotmail.com) or jbraziel@uwlax.edu.
DEADLINE: Submit 2-page abstracts and a brief c.v. by September 10, 2000.

PANEL ABSTRACT:
Mapping the theoretical and spatiotemporal intersections (or disjunctures) of queer times and diasporic spaces (or the "histories" and "topographies " of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, race within a transnationalist frame), this panel proposes a critical examination of recent interventions in Queer and Diasporic Studies around issues of space, time, and embodiment (particularly as such interventions confound material/aesthetic dichotomization). One objective of the panel is to historicize (and politicize) the imbricated constructions of gender, sexuality and spatiality, mapping the overlapping cartographies of nationalism, gender, sexuality and territorial boundaries.

Papers could address theorizations of space-time in Elizabeth Grosz's Space, Time and Perversion; Judith Butler's Bodies That Matter; Cynthia Patton and Benigno Sanchez-Eppler's Queer Diasporas; or theorizations of queerness and diaspora in relation to nation-states and transnationalism by scholars such as David Eng, Gayatri Gopinath, Jasbir Puar, Martin Manalansan, José Esteban Muñoz, Robert Schwartzwald and others.

Conversely, papers could explore cultural, artistic, literary or aesthetic representations of queer times, diaspora spaces, queer spaces, diasporic times, or any variant of queer or diasporized spatiotemporal borders. Other suggestions include: the spaces/s-time/s of sex acts and diasporic movements; sex and migration; sexual migration; queer bodies; diasporic bodies; queer and/or diasporic aesthetics; perverting aesthetics; queer ethics, diasporic ethics, and an-aesthetics.