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In Conjunction with UCLA LGBTQ Studies Present The 4Th Annual Queer Undergraduate Research Symposium
Paint Yourself Whole:
Friday, May 5, 2017 9:00am—6:30pm
Charles E. Young Grand Salon
Open to the public Free on-site registration
Refreshments and meals provided to registered attendants
$12 Campus Parking
UCLA QScholars
The following co-sponsors made this year’s symposium possible: David Schaberg, UCLA Dean of Humanities, College of Letters & Science UCLA Department of Communication Studies UCLA Office of Development UCLA Department of Sociology UCLA Department of Gender Studies UCLA Department of Philosophy UCLA Department of English UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures ASRF (Academic Success Referendum Fund)
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PROGRAMAGENDA9:00---9:30amCharlesE.YoungGrandSalon RegistrationandContinentalBreakfast9:30---9:45amOpeningRemarks:
ProfessorAliciaGaspardeAlba,Chair,LGBTQStudiesProgram,andProfessorofChicana/oStudies,English,andGenderStudies
9:45-10:15amVisualPerformancebyTimnaNaim:
"PluralisticIndividual:AdorningIdentity(ReplicationandReconstruction)"
10:15---10:25am:Break10:30---11:45am:Panel1:
Internalization,Coping,andComingOut• HaoranLi:“PerspectivesonInternalizedHomophobia:
QualitativeResearchonChineseLGBTQStudentsintheU.S.andChinaandTheirRomanticRelationships”
• NathanCheung:“ComingOutintheFamily:AnAnalysisoftheFamilyThroughtheLensofQueerTheory”
• AidaGhorbani:“Fem(me)inistRevisions:Femme-phobiaandToxicMasculinityinQueerSpaces”
• BrockThompson:“FaginBoots”Moderatedby:AudreySilvestre11:45---12:45pm:Panel2: Dreams,Ontology,andEducation
• HaroldFrancisco:“ArtemidorusandFoucault:TheOtherasDreamers,Symbols,andSignifiersintheOneirocritica”
• BrendaSelenaLara:“EpistemicUnconfidence:TheExclusionofLaMalinchefromKnowledgeProduction”
• TimnaNaim:"FightingforEquityinaSystemOverrunbyEquality:ReorientingEducationAroundSocialJustice”
Moderatedby:OmarGonzalez
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12:45---1:45pm:Lunch1:45---2:45pm:Panel3:
Trans-DisciplinaryApproachestoLGBTQStudies• BrittanyHewitt:“WavvySpace:AnalyzingDis-Identificationwith
SpatialPolicinginMykkiBlanco’s‘Wavvy’• PiWright:“Wittgenstein’sRefutationofCis-Normativity”• EmilyPadilla:"NavigatingQueerandMestizoIdentities:
Drawingon(Non)NormativeIndigenousHistoriesinaModernColonialLandscape"
Moderatedby:VicenteCarrillo
2:45---3:00pm:BreakRefreshmentsProvided
3:00---4:00pm:KeynoteSpeaker: JoshFeldman,ActorandCreatorof“TheChances” DeafInterpreter:RobbieSutton4:00---4:15pm:ClosingRemarks: BrockThompson,QScholarsPresident4:15---6:00pm:Reception
FoodProvidedforRegisteredAttendees
PleasejoinQScholars,theonlystudentorgdedicatedtofosteringqueerresearch!
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KEYNOTESPEAKERJoshFeldman,actorandcreatorof“TheChances,”isawriterwhowonaYoungPlaywrightsAwardfromArenaStageinWashington,D.C.,andhashadhisworkpublishedinonlinepublicationsaswellasinHustlermagazine.He’sfromadeaffamilyandwenttoGallaudetUniversityinWashingtonD.C.DuringhisfirstfewyearsinL.A.,heworkedasascriptreaderandasawriteratanimmigrationlawfirmbeforefocusingexclusivelyonwriting.
PARTICIPANTBIOSNathanCheung(He,Him,His)isagraduatingCommunicationseniorandMusicIndustryandLatinAmericanStudiesminor.HegrewupinHongKongandisasinger-songwriter.HaroldFrancisco(He,Him,His)HaroldFranciscoisatransferstudentatUCLAwhomajorsinLatinandAncientGreek.Hisinterestsareasmultitudinousashisidentity.Hedabblesingenderandqueertheory,politicaltheory,andstudiesliterature.HisstudiesinAncientGreekdreamculturehaveledtohisHonorsThesisonFoucaultandArtemidorus.InadditiontoLatinandAncientGreek,hestudiedFrench,Italian,Mandarin,andSpanish.However,heisonlyfluentinTagalogandEnglish.Hekeepshisownblogwherehewritessatire,literaryreviews,andfiction.HehasseenallofGuillermoDelToro’smoviesandhasevenbeentoaDelToroexhibitionatLACMA.Heisamuseumjunkyandhasbeentomuseumsacrosstheworld.Heisaconstantloverofart,nature,andthe“otherness”inbothartandnature.HehopesthathisundergraduatecareeratUCLAwillleadtoahigherdegree.Heenjoysreading,playingvideogames,andspendingtimewithhisdog,Fimoni.
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AidaGhorbani(She,Her,Hers)isafourth-yearUCLAGenderStudiesmajorandLGBTQStudiesminor.Theywillbegraduatingattheendofspring2017.Afterfinishingtheirundergraduateeducation,theyhopetostartanMFAinNewMediaArts,andthencontinueinacademia,working,creating,andactingontheintersectionsofqueer,Muslim,MiddleEastern,femme,disabled,workingclass,andimmigrantidentity.BrittanyHewitt(She,Her,Hers)isaqueer,Latina-AmericanbornandraisedinMiami.Currently,sheisathird-yearstudentatUCLA(Classof2018)andstudiesGlobalStudies,Film/Television/DigitalMediaandGenderStudies.Brittanyintendstopursueacareerintheworldofgenderrightsactivismandsheiscurrentlyfocusingonhowfeminismcanbedefinedinthemodernwomanandtheplacegenderhasinthepresentworld.Brittanytypicallychannelsherangerandtranquilityusingslampoetry.BrendaSelenaLara(She,Her,Hers)isafourth-yearundergraduatestudentmajoringinPhilosophyandminoringinChicanaandChicanoStudies.ShewillbegraduatingSpring2017.Aftergraduation,shewantstotakeabreakfromacademiaforthesummerandtravelsomewherealthoughshehasnoideawhereyet.InFall2017,shewilljoinUCLA’sChicanaandChicanoStudiesPhDProgram’ssixthcohort.Inhersparetime,sheisanactiveNetflixuserwiththeabilitytobingeanentiresitcomseasoninadayandhopesthatonedaythisskillwillcomeinhandyforsomethingotherthanprocrastination.HaoranLi(He,Him,His)isathird-yearSociologymajorandGlobalStudiesminoratUCLA.HegrewupinShenzhen,ChinaandmovedtotheU.S.forcollege.HeisanadvocateforSexualHarassmentInterventionAdvocacyGroupinChinaandpsychologicalsupportteamleaderatAsianDevelopmentServiceGroupintheU.S.Hismainresearchinterestsincludeinternalizedhomophobia,socialalienation,andimmigrantfemaleworkers’rights.TimnaNaim(They/Them/Theirs)isamovement,installation,andperformanceartistengagedinmovementpracticesandceramicsculpturalwork.Theyarecurrentlyinvestigatingtheintra-/interpersonalaspectsofidentityandcreativeexpression’seffectonidentityformation.Theyareanorganizerandhistorianwhocreatesaccessiblespacesthroughartactionsandcollaboratesonconsciousness
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raisinggroupsatUCLA.TheystudyDance,LGBTQStudies,andArtsEducationandleadstudentorganizationslikeQueerArtsCollectiveandContactImprovUCLA.IntheirtimeatUCLA,theyhaveworkedcloselywithfacultysuchasPeterSellars,KevinMyers,Cheng-ChiehYu,ShelWagnerRasch,AnnCarlson,RennieHarris,andNeginGhavami.TheyhaveworkedasaTeachingArtistwithFremontHighSchool,HoopaValleyElementary,RenaissanceArtsAcademy,andtheBatesDanceFestival.TheyhaveshownperformanceworkatUCLA’sGloryaKaufmanHall,UCLA’sBroadArtsCenter,andtheBatesDanceFestivalinbothsummer2015and2016.EmilyPadilla(they)identifiesasqueerandgendernon-conformingandpreferstobecalled‘Emily.’TheyareanUCLAtransferstudentmajoringinGenderStudiesandminoringinLGBTQStudies;theyalsointendtodeclareasecondminorinDisabilityStudies.TheirprojectedgraduationdateisJune2018.Onereallyneatthingaboutthemisthattheywereaprofessionalpetgroomerfornearlythreeyears,andhasworkedwithhundredsofdogsandvariouscats.Theyalsoco-parentaneighteen-year-oldcatnamedJemma,whomwecallBunny,asshenolongerhasatail(It’salongstory).BrockThompson(He,Him,His)isafourth-yearBiologymajorandLGBTQStudiesminor.He’soriginallyfromSouthDakotaandjoinedtheU.S.AirForceandwenttobasictrainingtwoweeksaftergraduatinghighschool.AfterbeingstationedatTravisAFB,CAasanaircraftmechanichedeployedtwotimestoQatarinsupportofOperationIraqiFreedomandOperationEnduringFreedom.Hethenshiftedgearsbecomingamedicandsupportedotherbranchesofthemilitarystateside.HetransferredtoUCLAin2015andwillbegraduatingSpring2017withaB.S.inBiologyandaminorinLGBTQStudies.PiWrightisaseniormajoringinEnglishattheUniversityofCalifornia,LosAngelesandwillbegraduatingintheSpringof2017.PriortomovingtoLosAngeles,theycreatedandtaughtartataceramicsstudioinLosGatos,California.AfunfactaboutPiisthattheyareapublishedpoet.
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PROGRAMSUPPORTProfessorAliciaGaspardeAlba(She,Her,Hers)isaProfessorofChicana/oStudies,English,andGenderStudiesatUCLA.Since2013,shehasservedasChairoftheLGBTQStudiesProgram.Profehaspublished11books,amongthemaward-winningnovelsandacademicworksaswellaspoetryandshortfiction.Agreatbelieverinstudent-runprojectslikeQScholarsandQGrad,sheisalsothefacultysponsorofQueerCatsJournalofLGBTQStudies,thefirstqueergraduate-studentopen-accessE-scholarshipjournalatUCLA.www.aliciagaspardealba.net.TomarionBrown(She,Her,Hers)istheLGBTQStudiesProgramcoordinator/studentadvisor/eventadministrator/programrecruiter.Inadditiontorunningtheprogram,shealsoenjoysspendingtimewithherwifeof4yearsandtheir14-month-olddaughter.
SPECIALTHANKS
DafneLuna,WorkshopFacilitatorMorganWoolsey,ProgramAssistantAlmaLopez,GraphicArtsDesignHumbertoMendezMartinezWinstonLuhur,Photographer
OmarGonzalez,ABDinChicana/oStudies,ModeratorAudreySilvestre,QGradOrganizer,ModeratorVicenteCarrillo,QGradOrganizer,Moderator
And,ofcourse,allourattendees!
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