Keynote Address, April 12, 2013 (4:30-6:00) reception following
Professor Jasbir Puar “Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled”
Full-Day Symposium, April 13, 2013 (9:00-6:00)
The symposium will bring into critical conversation the fields of queer studies, disability studies, and human rights, with particular attention to how the discourse of human rights maps vulnerability onto certain bodies—but not others--and how these bodies take on the burden of representation in domestic and international politics and law. Panelists will explore the potential and limitations of theories of vulnerability and precarity for thinking through the formation of international human rights publics; gendered and racialized citizenship; immigration reform; the rights of mobility, and how digital activism and social media transform human rights advocacy on behalf of sexual rights and disability rights.
Symposium featured speakers are Eunjung Kim and Rachel Lewis. Jacqueline Jones Royster will deliver the luncheon address. The symposium will consist of four panels, with speakers from various disciplines at OSU and universities and colleges in Ohio.
Sponsored by the Human Rights Working Group of the Humanities Institute; Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies; College of Arts and Science; Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Disability Studies; Department of English; DISCO; Multicultural Center; Sexuality Studies; Project Narrative; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Mershon Center.
Organizers: Wendy S. Hesford hesford.1@osu.edu & Amy Shuman shuman.1@osu.edu
