Culture Shock is two weeks of events aimed at exploring our cultural myths, particularly those surrounding immigrant, refugee, and racialised communities. Through panel discussions, film screenings, workshops, and a keynote speaker, we'll explore the dynamic nature of culture and challenge liberal discourses around multiculturalism.
Culture Shock is a collaborative effort by the McGill Anti-Racist Coalition (MARC), Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG McGill), and Student Society of McGill University (SSMU).
For childcare or translation please call QPIRG (514-398-7432) 48 hours in advance.
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Wednesday November 5, 6.30pm
Leacock Building, Room 232, 855 Sherbrooke St, McGill University
Professor Puar will examine the connections between sexuality, race, gender, nation and class in relation to the construction of terrorist bodies and the logisitics of war machines
Professor Puar is Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Puar's research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies; queer theory; South Asian cultural studies; and tourism studies. Professor Puar is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007) as well as numerous articles that appear in Gender, Place, and Culture, Social Text, Radical History Review, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, GLQ, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She has also edited a special issue of GLQ titled, "Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization" and co-edited a volume of Society and Space titled "Sexuality and Space".
Sponsored by: Queer McGill, QPIRG McGill, 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, QPIRG Concordia