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SUMMARY:Impossible Desires: New Directions in Queer Diaspora Studies
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nThe publication of Gayatri Gopinath’s Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press) in 2005 heralded a new moment in transnational scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The book theorized queer and feminist cultural practices in the context of South Asian diasporic migration\, and served as a precursor to subsequent scholarship in queer diaspora studies that has radically reshaped the fields of queer and feminist studies in the past two decades. \nWe mark the twentieth anniversary of Impossible Desires by showcasing the work of a new generation of queer diaspora scholars whose work spans South Asia\, the SWANA region\, South Africa\, and the Caribbean. Scholars Kareem Khubchandani\, Suzanne Persard\, Mehak Faisal Khan\, and Jordache Ellapen will reflect on their own groundbreaking work in light of Gopinath’s book; and artists Al-An deSouza\, Chitra Ganesh\, Shahzia Sikander\, and Felipe Baeza – all of whom have engaged in long-standing dialogues with Gopinath over the years—will reflect on the artist-critic relationship. The evening will conclude with a DJ set by Arshia Fatima Haq\, artist and founder of Discostan. \n6:00-7:00 p.m. Scholar Roundtable: Comparative Queer Diasporas\nMehak Faisal Khan\nJordache Ellapen\nSuzanne Persard\nKareem Khubchandani \n7:00-8:00 p.m. Artist Roundtable: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora\nChitra Ganesh\nShahzia Sikander\nFelipe Baeza\nAl-An DeSouza \n8:00-10:00 p.m. DJ Set\nArshia Fatima Haq \n  \nVenue guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. The Bowery Electric is a 21+ venue. If you are below 21 and wish to attend\, please email csgs@nyu.edu. \nAccessibility note: This venue is located down a flight of stairs and there is no elevator in the building. For questions or access needs\, please email csgs@nyu.edu. \nImage: This film still is featured on the cover of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press\, 2005). It features Vasantsena (Rekha) and Aditi (Anuradha) in Ustav (The Festival\, dir. Girish Karnad\, 1984). Photo courtesy of the National Film Archive of India.
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LOCATION:The Bowery Electric\, 327 Bowery
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Unruly Comparison: Queerness\, Hong Kong\, and the Sinophone
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nAlvin K. Wong (University of Hong Kong) joins the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality for a discussion about his new book Unruly Comparison Queerness\, Hong Kong\, and the Sinophone (Duke University Press\, 2025). \nThe book examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature\, cinema\, visual culture\, and civil society. Moving beyond Eurocentrism in queer theory and China-centrism in area studies\, Wong frames Hong Kong as a model for global comparison by theorizing a method of unruly comparison—acknowledging the incommensurability of cultural texts and queer figures across different temporal and spatial locations. Here\, unruly comparison positions Hong Kong as an undefinable time-space that troubles historicist\, colonial\, and China-centric renderings of the city as merely a site of British colonial legacy\, Chinese rule\, or global capital. Wong analyzes queer interracial desire in World War II; a cinema of gay male cosmopolitanism; queer intimacy among migrant workers; trans visuality and legality; cross-border sex work; and the queer diaspora of Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Through Wong’s readings\, Hong Kong becomes a queer region of racial\, gender\, and sexual incommensurability. By foregrounding the friction\, asymmetry\, and perverse juxtapositions of unruly comparison of Hong Kong with the Sinophone world\, Wong reframes key debates in queer theory and East Asian studies. \nA limited number of free copies will be available at the event. \nAlvin K. Wong is assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures. His research covers Hong Kong literature and cinema\, Sinophone studies\, queer theory\, and transnational feminism. His book Unruly Comparison: Queerness\, Hong Kong\, and the Sinophone is published by Duke University Press in 2025. He has also published in journals such as Journal of Lesbian Studies\, Gender\, Place & Culture\, Culture\, Theory\, and Critique\, Cultural Dynamics\, Continuum\, Diacritics\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Interventions\, and Screen. He also coedited the volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge\, 2020). Alvin is the editor of the journal Continuum and Chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms\, and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email csgs@nyu.edu.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/unruly-comparison-queerness-hong-kong-and-the-sinophone/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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