The American Indian Studies Program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce, " Indigenous Sexualities: A Symposium", on September 16, 2009 from 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the Asian American Cultural Center.
"Indigenous Sexualities: A Symposium"
Saturday, September 26, 2009
9:30AM-5 PM
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL
Sex in Native Literature
9:30-11:30 AM
Chair:
LeAnne Howe, AIS and English
Presenters:
Leilani Basham, University of Hawai'i-West Oahu
Awaiāulu Ke Aloha:The Ties that Bind Hawaiian Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage
Daniel Heath Justice, University of Toronto
Seeking Fantastic Sex: Contesting the Savagist Erotic in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
Comment:
Janice Gould, University of Colorado
at Colorado Springs
Siobhan Somerville, English and Gender and Women's Studies
Theories and Terms
1-2:45 PM
Chair:
Jodi Byrd, AIS and English
Presenters:
David Delgado Shorter, UCLA
Theoretical Postulates for the Study of Indigenous Sexualities
Brendan Hokowhitu, University of Otago, Aoteoroa New Zealand
The Taxonomy of Indigenous Masculinities
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University
Queering Decolonization: Indigenous Sovereignties and Sexualities
Comment:
Sharon Holland, Duke University
Fighting Homophobia in the Indigenous World
3-5 PM
Chair:
John Low, AIS
Presenters:
Keith Camacho, UCLA
"No offense had been established": Criminality, Homosexuality and Indigeneity in America's Pacific Empire
David Cornsilk, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
"There Once Were Among Them..."
Comment:
Noenoe Silva, University of Hawai'i-Manoa
Jessica Yee, Native Youth Sexual Health Network (Toronto)
Free and Open to the Public
See website for more detail: http://www.ais.illinois.edu/news/features/sexualities/index.html
