Conférence 1: DECOLONIZE QUEER - Semaine Des Arts - Bda Sciences Po

Decolonize queer, par Marie-Hélène Bourcier et et Paola Bacchetta

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La conférence d'introduction de la sixième Queer Week explorera les liens entre théories queer et théories post-coloniales.

Activiste et théoricienne queer Marie-Hélène Bourcier est maitre de conférences HDR à l’université de Lille 3. Elle est l’auteur de la trilogie des Queer Zones et de Comprendre le Féminisme (Max Milo, 2012). Elle travaille actuellement sur un ouvrage sur sexe et néolibéralisme et les discriminations à l’université. Tous ses textes sont en accès libre sur https://univ-lille3.academia.edu/marieheleneBourcier

Paola Bacchetta is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She is a Steering Committee Member of the California-wide Center for New Racial Studies. She is former Coordinator of the Gender Consortium at Berkeley, which represents all research centers and teaching units on gender across the university. She is the former Director (2006-2010) and current Advisory Board Chair of the Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley’s research center on gender, sexuality and its intersections with other relations of power. Professor Bacchetta is also an Advisory Board Member of the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements and Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, both at University of California, Berkeley. She is a faculty member in the following research centers at University of California, Berkeley: Center for Race and Gender; Center for South Asia Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality; Graduate Group in Performance Studies; and LGBT Minor.

Professor Bacchetta’s theoretical research interests are in: transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial and postcolonial theory, queer of color theory, aggregationalities (intersectionalities, assemblages, articulational theorizations, co-formations and co-productions), continental social and critical theory, and theories of spatialities. She has published on thematics such as: political and religious conflict; right-wing movements; liberation-oriented movements, insurgencies, and artistic expressions by feminist and queer of color, decolonial and postcolonial subjects and movements; and co-motion (alliances, coalitions, convergences, solidarities). Her methods of specialization are: analysis of discourse, sign-materialities, practices, events, co-formations and co-productions of power, subject formations and becomings; and ethnography and participant-observation. Her geographical areas of concentration are France, India, U.S., and more recently Italy.

Professor Bacchetta has published about forty journal articles and book chapters. She recently completed a book manuscript tentatively entitled CO-MOTION: Co-Formations, Co-Productions and the Planetary in Feminist and Queer Alliances which is now under review for publication. She is currently co-editing, with Nawo Crawford and Sabreen Al Rassace, an anthology of historical to contemporary primary texts by lesbians of color in France, including lesbian of color theories and expressive practices such as art, performance, slam and other poetic forms. Professor Bacchetta is currently working on her next sole authored book, tentatively entitled, “Movements from Silence: Transnational Decolonialities, Spaces of Freedom, and Oppositional and Non-oppositional Insurgent Enactments of Lesbians of Color in Paris.” It addresses questions of decolonizing social science epistemologies and especially social movement approaches through the critical lens of the empirics of lesbian of color collective and singular actions, organizing, theorizing and political-artistic expressions in France over the past four decades with a concentration on the recent present.
https://berkeley.academia.edu/PaolaBacchetta