Warszawa: Deviance Studies, Stigma, and Queer Theory – Heather Love [Queerowe (od/do)czytanie]
Surrounded by numerous pop-scientific events and social issues that tend to be treated in a superficial manner, we aim to dig a little deeper in our quest to understand. By organising seminars we strive towards a redefined, yet classical in its essence, Mentor–Student relation.
This time however, taking into consideration a queer understanding of what Socratic teaching actually stood for and why it became the principal definition of methods used in Academia, we want to move beyond its constraints and treat our guest lecturers as facilitators, who will offer hints rather than fixed answers. Thus, discussions on the chosen topics will not only be looked at through the lense of queer theories but will also be an attempt to challenge existing norms.
Every „Queer (Re/Un)Reading” seminar will be preceded by a short introduction of the chosen readings, based on their critical analysis and queer reading. This will form a basis for the following discussion.
This session would combine some classic readings in the sociological study of deviance with some canonical texts in queer studies in order to draw connections between them.
We will discuss texts:
– Erving Goffman, Stigma (excerpt)
– Esther Newton, Mother Camp (excerpt)
– Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex”
– Cathy J. Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens”
All the texts will be e-mailed to participants prior to the meeting.
Heather Love is the R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in gender and sexuality studies, twentieth-century literature and culture, affect studies, film and visual culture, and critical theory. She has also taught at Harvard University, New York University, and Princeton University. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard); she is the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”) as well as the co-editor a forthcoming issue of Representations (“Description Across Disciplines”) . She is working on projects on description, comparative social stigma, and pedagogy and mentorship in queer studies.
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