Careful Worldmaking: A GSS Symposium
Please join the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program community for the second biennial Careful Worldmaking Symposium. The symposium invites us to consider how our histories and our dreams for feminist, queer, and decolonial futures inform our everyday practices together on campus, and in our lives beyond. This year’s special guest speakers are Mel Y. Chen (University of California Berkeley), Hil Malatino (Penn State University), and Eleanor Craig (Emory University). The guests will give shorter talks to allow ample time for discussion. There will be a light breakfast and a working lunch, during which we consider our dreams for the future of GSS at the University of Richmond.
Mel Y. Chen is professor of gender & women's studies and director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley as well as director of the disability studies minor. They are the author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012) and Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire (2023) and co-editor of Crip Genealogies (2023) and the "Queer Inhumanisms” special issue of Social Text (2015).
Hil Malatino is associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and philosophy at Penn State University, and acting director of the Rock Ethics Institute. He is the author of Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (2019), Trans Care (2020), and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (2022), as well as the forthcoming book Climbing.
This event is sponsored by the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, the School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, and the WILL Program.