Queer studies has grown significantly in recent decades, with more scholars shedding light on the experiences and history of LGBTQ+ communities. As this field evolves, there is still a need to broaden our perspective beyond the Western context and explore a wider range of LGBTQ+ viewpoints across the world. Join us for an engaging virtual panel event as scholars and researchers from across disciplines share their work, from trans representation in the Philippines to gender norms in South Asian culture and more. This panel will offer valuable insights into the impact of colonial legacies on LGBTQ+ research, the challenges faced by those studying LGBTQ+ communities outside the West, and strategies for decolonizing queer identities and academia.
July 10, 8 AM PST, 11 AM EST, 4 PM BST
Speakers
Dr. J. Daniel Luther
J. Daniel Luther is an independent academic working in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Post-colonial, Critical Race, and Cultural Studies. They are a co-founder of 'Queer' Asia. Having left the academic precariat, they now wear multiple hats working on building nurturing spaces for young scholars in higher education at Oxford University and as a DEI consultant in the UK. Their first monograph is titled "Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only."
Dr. Mikee Inton-Campbell
Dr. Mikee Inton-Campbell is a trans academic and activist from the Philippines. She earned her Ph.D. in cultural studies at Lingnan University as a Hong Kong Ph.D. fellow. Her work centers on representations of queerness in Philippine and Asian cinema and media. She has extensive teaching experience, having taught courses on media studies, gender studies, and film studies at California State University San Marcos, the University of the Philippines Diliman, the University of Hong Kong, and De La Salle University Manila. She is also an advocate for trans rights; she serves as a board member of the Society of Trans Women of the Philippines, the longest running trans-oriented support and advocacy group in the Philippines. Her chapter on "Bodies in Transition: The Bakla as Transgender in Philippine Cinema" features in "The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities."
Dr. Adnan Hossain
Adnan Hossain is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of “Beyond emasculation: Pleasure and power in the making of hijra in Bangladesh,” co-author of “Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia” and his chapter on "Hijras in South Asia: Rethinking the dominant representations" features in “The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities.” His research interests and expertise concern gender and sexual diversity, masculinities, transgender and intersex studies, heterosexualities, race and ethnic relations, body politics, decolonization, postcolonial studies, cricket, higher education studies, reparation movement and global inequalities in knowledge production.