Bringing scholars from a variety of disciplinary locations together to discuss and “diagnose” the varied intersections of queerness and contagion, this virtual symposium will consider how pandemics—from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19 and Monkeypox—have been endured, engaged, and confronted by queer and trans communities and how LGBTQ+ identifications and practices have themselves been troublingly figured as “viral” and “contagious” pandemics.

Featuring:

Marlon M. Bailey, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University, St. Louis

Mel Y. Chen, Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, UC Berkeley

Joseph Osmundson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology, New York University

Sarah Williams, Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies.

Moderated by Lynne Joyrich, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Modern Culture and Media and Director, LGBTQIA+ Thinking Initiative, Pembroke Center

Presented by the Pembroke Center’s LGBTQIA+ Thinking Initiative and the Pembroke Public Health Collaborative.

Free and open to the public.

Date and time: Fri, April 7, 2023, 2:00 PM – 4:45 PM EDT