Scholar Series
The LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series highlights current scholarship and research of BU faculty around a central theme. The theme for the 23-24 academic year is Queer Resistance. Full descriptions of each talk and the link to registration are below.
23-24 LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series
Spring 2024
- The Gayl Jones School of Queer Care: Cat Lawson and Consequence in Corregidora, Featuring Ianna Hawkins Owen, Assistant Professor of English and African American & Black Diaspora Studies – Friday, February 9, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual, Register here
- Mental health inequalities among trans and nonbinary college students: Findings from the national Healthy Minds Study and the role of discriminatory and protective campus policies, Featuring Sarah Ketchen Lipson, Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Law, Policy, and Management at the School of Public Health – Friday, March 22, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual, Register here
- What Does It Take to Breach the Cisheteronormativity of the Modern Language Classroom?, Featuring Ashley R. Moore, Assistant Professor of TESOL in the Department of Language and Literacy Education – Friday, April 12, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual, Register here
Fall 2023
- Toward a Global Queer Theory: On Writing as an LGBTQIA+ Scholar of Color and Building Transnational Solidarities, Featuring Petrus Liu, Featuring Petrus Liu, Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Friday, October 20, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
- From Romer to Obergefell: The Supreme Court’s Rewriting of the Grounds for Protecting LGBTQIA+ Rights. And What’s Next After Dobbs?, Featuring James E. Fleming, The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law – Friday, November 3, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
- Voices of transgender and nonbinary adolescents from across the United States: The influence of proximal and distal contexts on social-emotional wellbeing, Featuring Melissa K. Holt, Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology and Director of Kilachand Honors College – Friday, December 1, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
Previous LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series
Spring 2023
Queer Representation & Visibility
- ‘Dyke Bars Never Last’: Gentrification, Critical Nostalgia and the Commemoration of Lost Dyke Bars, featuring Japonica Brown-Saracino, Professor and Chair of Sociology
- Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS, featuring Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law and R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, School of Law
- “If I was straight and white it would be different: they would believe me”: The experiences of gay Latino and/or Black male sexual assault survivors when disclosing being sexually assaulted, featuring Daniel Jacobson López, Assistant Professor, BU School of Social Work and Faculty Affiliate, Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health
Fall 2022
Queer Representation & Visibility
- Borderlanding Academic Researchers: A Range of Whisper Networks, featuring Laura M. Jiménez, Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education
- Visibly Hidden: Exploring Queer Masculinities in 1950s Popular Music, featuring Vincent L. Stephens, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, College of Arts & Sciences and Lecturer in the School of Music
- Transmasculinity on Television, featuring Patrice Oppliger, Assistant Professor of Communication
- Assessing and Addressing the Well-Being of LGBTQ Populations, featuring Carl Streed Jr., Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine and the Research Lead for the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center
Spring 2022
Identity & Activism
- Queer Art, the Christian Right, and the Aesthetics of Literalism featuring Anthony Petro, Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Health Humanities
- “Conscience, not Bigotry” and Other Framings in Conflicts over LGBTQ+ Rights and Religious Liberty featuring Linda C. McClain, Robert Kent Professor of Law
- The Caged Bird Sings: Welcoming Identities through Music-making featuring André De Quadros, Professor of Music, Music Education and affiliate faculty in African American Studies, African Studies Center, American & New England Studies Program, Center for Antiracist Research, Center for the Study of Asia, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Initiative on Cities, Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Latin American Studies, Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking, Prison Education Program, and The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Fall 2021
Queering Pedagogy & Education