![]() ![]() To pay tribute to this queer Buckeye who studied at, taught at, and invested in OSU, we are taking our points of departure for panel themes from Steward's life and work. In 1995, Steward's estate donated funds to the OSU English department to further research in LGBTQ scholarship, but these funds have only recently been rediscovered. As something of a gay Casanova (and a scrupulous archivist of his sexual encounters), Steward also "linked in," as he might say, with such movie stars as Rudolf Valentino and Rock Hudson. Toklas, Thornton Wilder, Andre Gide, Thomas Mann, Alfred Kinsey, Albert Camus, Christopher Isherwood, George Platt Lynes, and Paul Cadmus. ![]() As a literary studies academic, writer, and visual and tattoo artist, Steward lived a highly varied life, coming into contact, and in some cases formed long-lasting friendships, with such figures as Gertrude Stein, Alice B. The inspiration for this expansiveness and reevaluation is Samuel Steward, an OSU alum of the 1930s and the subject of Justin Spring's critically acclaimed biography Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade (2010). We envision the conference as an opportunity both to take stock of inter/disciplinary trends as well as provoke new ideas and frameworks for future work. The title is meant as an expansive call to consider a host of issues evoked by queer places (local/global, urban/rural, North/South, East/West, public/private, mobility/immobility), queer practices (sexual cultures, expressive cultures, political activism, academic work), and queer lives (biography, hagiography, psychology, sexology, history, development). 12, 2011 Confirmed speakers Joseph Boone, Tim Dean, Kale Fajardo, Roderick Ferguson, Brian Glavey, Scott Herring, Eithne Lubheid, Victor Mendoza, Deborah Miranda, Jose Esteban Munoz, Hoang Tan Nguyen, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Nayan Shah, Justin Spring, Susan Stryker, Shane Vogel *** We invite proposals for the inaugural queer studies conference at The Ohio State University. CALL FOR PAPERS THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLUMBUS, OH MAY 18-19, 2012 Deadline for proposals: Aug.
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