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News Release
Sept. 26, 2006
Boise State Hosts Queer Academic
Conference Oct. 18-22
Boise State University will host its second conference looking at lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer issues. The QueerId Academic and Art
Conference, which runs Oct. 18-22, is open to the public. Free parking is
available in the lot between the Liberal Arts Building and the Special Events
Center.
The conference includes a keynote address from Leslie Feinberg, the Queer as
Film festival, a juried art show, the annual Family Studies Policy Forum,
workshops and academic presentations.
Conference co-founder Amy Herzfeld, executive director of the Idaho Human Rights
Education Center, said the goal is to provide the community with positive
representations of the queer community. “Popular media and culture has a lot of
stereotypes, and there aren’t many opportunities to see those positive and
multi-faceted representations,” she said.
Following is a partial list of events. All events are free and at the Boise
State Student Union Building unless otherwise noted. For a complete schedule,
visit www.queeridconference.com.
Oct. 12
Pre-conference event
7 p.m., Human Rights Book Club: “Stone Butch Blues” by Leslie Feinberg. A
discussion with Ginna Husting, Boise State professor of gender and sociology.
Log Cabin Literary Center, 801 S. Capitol Blvd.
Oct. 18
3-5 p.m.,“Taking Time to Feel it: Social Change in a Time of Terror.” A
workshop on violence presented by Andrea Shipley.
6 p.m., Keynote address: Feinberg is a political organizer, journalist
and author whose novel “Stone Butch Blues” won the American Library Association
Lesbian and Gay Book Award and a Lambda Award. Feinberg’s groundbreaking
non-fiction work, “Transgender Warriors” won the Firecracker Alternative Book
Award. Feinberg addresses issues of oppression and identify, including
nationalities, genders, abilities and class.
Oct. 18-Nov. 8
Juried art show: The “We are Family” exhibition in the Student Union
Gallery is a collection of family portraits, interviews, video and sound,
expanding traditional representations of the family. Opening reception is 5-7
p.m. Oct. 20
Oct. 19
Workshops
10:15 a.m. — Transformations, Human Rights and Wrongs: “Wheelchair Users,
Sex and Romance, and the Sociological Imagination,” “Visibility as Power: A
Historical Analysis of the Pride Parade in Idaho,” “The Pursuit of Happiness and
the American Dream: But you don’t qualify if you are different in any way.”
1 p.m. — Queer Theorizing: Transsexuals’ Narratives: Contested
Identities, Flourishing Communities,” “Queering Social Science Research: The
Discursive Problems of Queer Theory in the Social Science Research Model,” “Do
You Like? Do You Like a Man?”
2:30 p.m. — Mapping Bodies and Desires: “Double Exposures of the
Vulnerable Body,” “Pronouns Not of My Own Making: Language, Gender
Misrecognition and Racism in the Academy,” “Still Guy Madison,” “Punks,
Skinheads, and Dandies: Queer Mappings of Desire in Gilbert and George,
1977-1985.”
Panel
4 p.m. — “Socially Constructed Identities (and the Conservative Plot to Destroy
Them).”
Oct. 19-21
Beginning at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 — Queer as Film: Film Festival: Now in its
fourth year, the festival has partnered with the Queer Idaho conference to
examine identity and representation through film. This year’s festival includes
a juried shorts section. The festival culminates in an awards ceremony on Oct.
22. Tickets on sale at the Flying M Coffeehouse. Free parking in the Liberal
Arts parking lot. Visit
www.queerasfilmboise.org for complete details.
Oct. 20
10 a.m.-5 p.m. — “Fact or Fiction: Research on Sexual Orientation, Society and
the Family.” Boise State’s Family Studies Annual Policy Forum. The daylong
event focuses on the history of the “traditional” family, current research
addressing sexual orientation and the family, and how these issues affect the
local community. Student Union Bishop Barnwell Room. The event is free, but
participants must register. To register or for more information, call 426-1901.
Free parking in the Student Union visitor lot.
5-7 p.m. Closing reception for national juried exhibition. Featuring 25
works by 16 artists in video, photography, drawing, metals, artist books,
painting, installation and sculpture. Visual Arts Center Gallery II, Hemingway
Center. Exhibition runs Oct. 2-27.
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Contacts: Ginna Husting, (208) 426-1365,
ghusting@boisestate.edu;
Laurie Blakeslee, (208) 426-1055,
lblakesl@boisestate.edu; Amy Herzfeld, (208) 345-0304,
amy@idahohumanrights.org;
Jennie Myers, (208) 426-5606,
jmyers@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
Where you see blue, we see the largest institution of higher education in
Idaho. For the ninth time in the last 10 years, Boise State University has set
an all‑ time state record with a fall enrollment of 18,876 students. Since 1996,
Boise State’s student population has increased 25 percent.
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