@couch, a high floor, apartment, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sites Queer takes place on February 7, 8, and 9, 2019. There are 40 presenters from all over the world. Their innovative research in the fields of architecture, spatial theory, urbanism, queer theory, history, gender studies, performance, and media studies have been curated into eleven panels, four keynotes, and one workshop spreading throughout the three-day event, each allotting time for conversations and questions afterwards. Attendees and presenters are encouraged to live Tweet and Instagram using the #sitesqueer tag. Spaces are limited: attendees must register via Eventbrite (click here to register).
Day 1: Morning
TECHNOLOGIES
8:30 AM—Inscription and Coffee
9:00 AM—Welcoming
9:15 AM—KEYNOTE
The New Economy of Desire: Homosexual Subjectivities in the Era of No-Strings-Attached Relationships, Richard Miskolci, PhD
10:15 AM—Coffee Break
10:30 AM—PANEL ONE: ‘Transgressions’
Coloniality, Rape Culture, and Technology: From Sexual Explicitness to Invisibility in Resistance Art, Chloé S. Georas, JD
Non-consensual Sexual Conduct on Queer Dating Apps: Examining Tensions Experienced by Men Who Have Sex With Men, Christopher Dietzel
11:30 AM—KEYNOTE
A Kindr Grindr? Moderating Race(ism) in Techno-Spaces of Desire, Sharif Mowlabocus, PhD
12:30 PM—Lunch Break
Day 1: Afternoon
TECHNOLOGIES
1:30 PM—PANEL TWO: ‘Desire’
Digital Dogma: Relating the Manifestations of Religion Online to the Practices and Experiences of Arab MSM, Khaled Alsaleh
BLINDR: Gay Desire Under Surveillance Capitalism, Stephen Lawson
Erotic Topographies: Scholarly and Artistic Approaches to Autoethnography of Place, Juan Antonio Trujillo, PhD
2:30 PM—PANEL THREE: ‘Agency’
Cybertransfeminism, Self-Defense, and Collective Digital Care, EspicyNipples
Twisting the Path and the Interstice, Itzayana Gutiérrez
Queer Architectures, Digital Futures, and the Bad Romance of Transparency, Jasmine Rault, PhD
3:30 PM—Coffee Break
3:45 PM—PANEL FOUR: ‘The Cabaret Commons’
Trans-Feminist and Queer Audiences 4evah: X-Reception, Digital Archives of Live Performance, and Networked Intimate Publics, T.L. Cowan, PhD
In Conversation, Jasmine Rault, Islandia, Stephen Lawson, and Itzayana Gutiérrez
4:45 PM—Lecture
San Juan Queer: Mobile Apps, Urban Spaces, and LGBTQ Identities, Regner Ramos, PhD
5:30PM—Closing Conversations
7:30 PM—Exhibition Opening
Los Sites: Spatial Speculations in Queer San Juan, Regner Ramos, PhD
Day Two: Morning
TECHNOLOGIES
9:00 AM—Inscription and Coffee
9:15 AM—KEYNOTE
Addressing Subjectivities, Rebecca Ross, PhD
10:15 AM—Coffee Break
10:30 AM—PANEL FIVE: ‘Locality’
Museo Q: Re-activating Spaces in Bogota, Michael Andrés Forero-Parra
Metaphysical Territories and Their Transition from Magical to Digital Archives, Islandia (Carina Emilia Guzmán)
Queering The Map, Lucas LaRochelle
12:30 PM—Lunch Break
Day Two: Afternoon
SPACES
1:30 PM—KEYNOTE
Queer Infrastructure, Ben Campkin, PhD
2:30 PM—PANEL SIX: ‘Permission’
Reproducing Spaces of Exclusion: SESTA-FOSTA and the Regulation of Queer POC Bodies, Jody Liu
Challenges in the Representation of the Deviations of the LGBTTQIP+ Pride Parade in San Juan, Manuel Clavell-Carrasquillo, JD + Herminio Rodríguez, MFA
3:30 PM—Coffee Break
3:45 PM—PANEL SEVEN: ‘Placemaking’
Queerness and Matrix-Sites: Las Nietas de Nonó’s Patio Taller, Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya, MD/PhD
Transgression and Institutionalization:Illegal Sex as a Foundation of Place, Hugues Lefebvre Morasse
Queer Practices of Placemaking: Exploring How LGBTQI+ Urban Activists Make Place in London, Claire Tunnacliffe
4:45 PM—PANEL EIGHT: ‘Diversity’
Negotiating Gender Diverse Worlds Built on Binary Expectations, Laura Marshall
Transbelonging: Re-orienting Displacement in the Navigation of Urban Spaces, Ged Ribas Goody
5:45 PM—Closing Conversation
Day 3: Morning
OTHERNESS
9:00 AM—Inscription and Coffee
9:15 AM—PANEL NINE: ‘Nou Mache Ansanm: Debates, Proposals, and Performances for Queer Haiti in Caribbean Context’
Danced Pedagogies for Queer Haitian Survival, Dasha A. Chapman, PhD
Witnessing Queer Flights: Josué Azor’s Photo-Documentary of Lougawou Images in the Contemporary Era of Anti- Homosexual Unrest in Haiti, Mario LaMothe, PhD
10:00 AM—PANEL TEN: ‘Representations’
Transformismo: A Spatial, Cultural, and Racial Intervention in Chicago’s Queer and Latinx Communities, Liliana Macias
The Identity Continuum: Constructing Male Homosexualities in Trafficking in Broken Hearts by Puerto Rican Dramatist Edwin Sánchez, Ari Alannah Hernández
Queer Mythologies: The Account of the Antiquities of the Indians by Fray Ramón Pané and the Taíno Oscillatory Relation with Identity and Gender, Marla Pagán-Mattos, PhD
Five Points Towards a Queer Architecture, Andrew Holder
11:15 AM—Coffee Break
11:30 AM—PANEL ELEVEN: ‘Orientations’
Indigenous Queer Sights: Sensualities from Land to Body of Spirit, Jason Baerg and Léuli Eshraghi
Same Country, Different World: Making the Case for the “Intranational” Sexile, Erika Abad, PhD
Afrekete as Archive: Toward Diasporic Black Femme Erotic Subjectivity, Ashley Coleman-Taylor, PhD
Queering the Here and the Now, Lilliana Ramos-Collado, PhD
12:45 PM—Lunch Break
Day Three: Afternoon
1:45 PM—WORKSHOP
Prototyping for Emergent Queer Spaces: Building Queer Futurities Through Affirmative Autoethnography, Lucas LaRochelle + nènè myriam konaté (Due to limited spaces, we kindly request prior registration)
5:45 PM—Closing Conversation
