This roundtable brings together the authors — both scholars and artists — featured in Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford 2017).  We ask how individuals, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the body does and can do.  There is great power in claiming queerness in the press of bodies touching or in the exceeding of the body best measured in sweat and exhaustion.  How does queerness exist in the realm of affect and touch, and what then might we explore about queerness through these pleasurable and complex bodily ways of knowing?

Saturday October 21, 2017: 11 am-12:30 pm, 220 Sullivant

Session Chair: Raquel Monroe, Columbia College

Angela Ahlgren, Bowling Green State University

Julian Carter, California College of the Arts

Clare Croft, University of Michigan

Thomas F. DeFrantz, SLIPPAGE

Nic Gareiss, Independent Scholar

Doran George, Independent Artist/Scholar

Gina Kohler, Independent Scholar

Cynthia Ling Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz