Working on Chiang and Wong’s (2016) call to ‘queer the transnational
turn’ through a consideration of regionalism in the examination of queer
modernities in Asia, five panelists assembled for a discussion of
queer global Asias. We seek to interrogate the concept of regionalism in
the study of bodies and desires across Asia and its traffic around the
world.
Forum panelists include
Howard Chiang (History, University of California, Davis),
Việt Lê (Visual Studies, California College of the Arts),
Gayatri Reddy (Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago), and
Shilpa Menon and
Themal Ellawala (graduate students, University of Illinois Chicago). Moderator:
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza (PhD candidate in Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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