{"id":109,"date":"2012-02-09T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/?p=109"},"modified":"2012-02-18T02:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T09:26:22","slug":"109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/2012\/02\/09\/109\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Guest Lecture: ‘Homonationalim in Canada’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Global Queer Research Group (GQRG) Presents<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Homonationalism in Canada<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

A special guest lecture by<\/span><\/strong>
\nDr. Suzanne Lenon<\/strong>\u00a0(Lethbridge)\u00a0&<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Omisoore Dryden\u00a0(Toronto\/OISE)<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

March 2nd,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00-12:15<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/strong>Thea\u2019s Lounge,<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Graduate Student Society Building<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In this special guest lecture, Dr. Suzanne Lenon and Omisoore Dryden will present contemporary scholarship concerning the nationalization of sexual citizenship and its problematics in the context of Canadian queer movements. The notion of \u201chomonationalism,\u201d first formulated by Jasbir Puar (2007), refers to the political processes in which queer visibility and protection of same-sex relationships are used to articulate the \u2018exceptionality\u2019 of Western modern nations, effectively placing regions and bodies of cultural Other as pre-modern, and homophobic. Such nationalistic imaginary has produced perceptions of ethnic diasporas in Canada as a threat to sexual liberalism, generating racist and exclusionary discourses against immigrants and queer people of color in local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities and a wider public sphere. In conjunction with the publication of\u00a0Queer Kaleidoscopes: Disturbing Homonationalism in Canada\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(UBC Press, 2012), Dr. Suzanne Lenon and Omisoore Dryden\u00a0\u00a0will\u00a0\u00a0present their works on the topic, as well as the significance of an anti-homonationalist approach to queer scholarship in a global context.\u00a0<\/span>Please join us for food and refreshments after the event!<\/span><\/p>\n

Please\u00a0<\/strong>RSVP
\n<\/strong><\/span>http:\/\/homonationalismincanada.eventbrite.com\/<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information please contact:
\n<\/span>Global Queer Research Group:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>globalqueer@gmail.com
\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>Or check out the GQRG\u2019s website:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/<\/wbr><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Special Thanks to the\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Critical Studies in Sexuality<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Liu Institute for Global Issues<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for Sponsoring this Event!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Global Queer Research Group (GQRG) Presents\u00a0 Homonationalism in Canada A special guest lecture by Dr. Suzanne Lenon\u00a0(Lethbridge)\u00a0& \u00a0Omisoore Dryden\u00a0(Toronto\/OISE) March 2nd, 10:00-12:15 Thea\u2019s Lounge, Graduate Student Society Building \u00a0In this special guest lecture, Dr. Suzanne Lenon and Omisoore Dryden will present contemporary scholarship concerning the nationalization of sexual citizenship and its problematics in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gqrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}