Friday and Saturday, October 19-20, 2007, Royce Hall, UCLA
Deadline for proposals: June 29, 2007
Plenary speakers and panelists for this year’s conference: Jill Dolan, Kale Fajardo, Judith Halberstam, Kara Keeling, Chandan Reddy, Nayan Shah, Dean Spade
Thomas DeFrantz and the Slippage Ensemble will present „Queer Theory: An Academic Travesty“
The Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference welcomes presentations of research and other work in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies, on queer topics, sexuality and gender. Since one of the principal goals of the conference is to encourage the exchange of ideas across academic generations, we invite participation of both graduate students and faculty scholars. Please send your proposal (not more than 850 words) for a 20-minute presentation and a cv (not more than 2 pages) to one of the addresses below. If you would like to organize a panel of three speakers, please feel free to do so.

Submissions by US Postal Service
UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program
3300 Rolfe Hall, Box 951531
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531
Email submissions: lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu
For further information, please contact the LGBTS office at 310 206 0516
or lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu
Organized by
the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program with generous support from the David Bohnett Foundation and the Gill Foundation
Raquel Gutierrez, M.A.
Assistant Director
Center for Feminist Research
University of Southern California
Mark Taper Hall of Humanities, 422
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4352
voice: (213) 740-1739
fax: (213) 740-6168
E-mail: cfr@usc.edu – raquelgu@college.usc.edu