"Queers for Genocide" Jasbir K. Puar
11.7 Thursday 4-6 PM Hart Hall 3201
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The lecture is open only to UCD undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and Hart Hall staff. Since space is limited, RSVPs are required and will be accepted on a first-come basis until capacity is reached. RSVP closes 11/6 5PM.
Professor Puar's talk will interrogate recent debates about sexuality, pinkwashing, and homonationalism in the context of the genocide on Gaza.
Jasbir K. Puar is the Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor of Global Race Studies and Professor of The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.She is the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly, mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian. Puar is also co-author of exhibitions for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019) and the Sharjah Art Biennial (2023). She is the recipient of the 2019 Kessler Award from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY, which recognizes lifetime achievement in and impact on queer research and organizing.