Prof. Jeremy Chow – Not a Monolith: Queerness, Race, & Asian Americanness
Am Donnerstag, den 21.07.2022, hält Prof. Jeremy Chow von der Bucknell University (USA) einen Gastvortrag über das Zusammenspiel von „queerness, race, and Asian Americanness“. Dazu präsentiert Prof. Chow eine Reihe von Fallstudien, mit deren Hilfe er die Herausforderungen intersektionaler Identitäten und ihrer Repräsentation in der amerikanischen Kultur und auf der globalen Bühne aufzeigt.
Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2022, 18:00 bis 19:30 Uhr
Direct access: https://uni-bamberg.zoom.us/j/66452206463Meeting-ID: 664 5220 6463 (kein Passwort)
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Christine Gerhardt
Prof. Jeremy Chow (Bucknell University): „Not a Monolith: Queerness, Race, & Asian Americanness“
Thursday, July 21st, 2022, 18:00-19:30 p.m., online lecture (the Zoom call will open at 17:45)
Zoom-Call ID: 664 5220 6463
As intersectionality becomes a sticking point for scholarly inquiry, it behooves us to evaluate how intersectional thinking can inform and sometimes efface particular identity markers. This talk—which centers open discussion and debate among all participants—considers the uphill battle of thinking the intersections among queerness, race, and Asian Americanness. By considering several case studies—discriminatory slogans that circulate on queer social media, increasing Asian American hate crimes in light of COVID-19, poetry by Chen Chen, and the celebritydom of George Takei—we will explore the fraught tensions among intersectional identities and how they are received within an American cultural context that invariably bleeds globally.
Jeremy Chow is an assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University, which occupies the ancestral and unceded territories of the Susquehannock peoples. His research explores the relationships among literary studies, theories of queerness, and the environmental humanities. His first book, The Queerness of Water: Violent Entanglements in Troubled Ecologies, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press.
