Room A510
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
If asked about queer work in International Relations (IR), most IR scholars would almost certainly answer that queer studies is a non-issue for the sub-discipline — a topic beyond the scope and understanding of international politics. Yet queer work tackles problems that IR scholars themselves believe are central to their discipline: questions about political economies, the geopolitics of war and terror, and the national manifestations of sexual, racial, and gendered hierarchies, not to mention their implications for empire, globalization, neoliberalism, sovereignty, and terrorism. And since the introduction of queer work in the 1980s, IR scholars have used queer concepts like “performativity” or “crossing” in relation to important issues like sovereignty and security without acknowledging either their queer sources or their queer function.
This agenda-setting book asks how “sexuality” and “queer” are constituted as domains of international political practice and mobilized by policymakers, activists, and academics to bear on questions of state and nation formation, war and peace, and international political economy.
Author Cynthia Weber, Professor of International Relations, Sussex University, UK will be joined by discussants: L.H.M. Ling, Professor, Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, The New School; Meghana Nayak,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Pace University; Cyril Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Government and Politics, Wagner College and; Sara Shroff, Ph.D. Candidate at the Milano School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, The New School.
Sponsored by the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy; Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs, Milano; Global Studies; Eugene Lang College; and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Executive Dean’s Office, Schools of Public Engagement; and New School for Social Research.