March 20-21, 2015
Duke University
Keynote Speakers
Anne-Emmanuelle Berger
Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, Centre d'études féminines et d'études de genre, University of Paris 8, Adjunct Professor of French Literature, Cornell University
Tina Campt
Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Director of the Africana Studies Program, Barnard College
Lee Edelman
Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University
Françoise Vergès
Chair, Global South(s) at the College d'études mondiales, Paris, Consulting Professor, Goldsmiths College, London
Duke University Co-Sponsors: African & African American Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Office of the Deans of Arts and Sciences, Franklin Humanities Institute, Program in Literature, Mellon Asian Studies Science Project.
Institutional Co-Sponsors: Women’s and Gender Studies at University North Carolina, Greensboro; The Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing at University of Kent; Languages, Literatures, and Cultures or Center for Social Studies at University of Coimbra; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts; Women and Gender Studies Institute at University of Toronto; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality at The Ohio State University; Gender and Women’s Studies at University of California, Berkeley; Women’s Studies Department at University of Maryland; Women’s Studies at Appalachian State University; Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University; Women’s and Gender Studies at Southern Methodist University; Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Arizona; and Women’s Studies at East Carolina University.