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Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self

In the fall of 2015, Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander published Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self, a book-length multimodal exploration of technologies, subjectivities, and affects. Winner of the 2016 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, Techne delves into the multiple layerings of text, image, and technology as sites from which to perform, write, and read queered subjectivity in the digital age.  Now, in this mini-symposium, Rhodes and Alexander offer a multi-mediated and embodied enactment of parts of Techne that combine auto-ethnography and theory to perform the interplay between digital and traditional writing technologies and the author/ed self.

The event is divided into four discrete sections, so come for what you can; you may attend both the lunch and the reception:

10:30 am: Welcome and opening remarks by Jonathan Alexander, professor of English and gender & sexuality studies.

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: “Rhizomes: Composing from Dissociation” - Multimedia presentation by Jacqueline Rhodes, professor of English, CSU San Bernardino. “Rhizomes” is a provocative investigation of the longterm implications of both literal and figurative violence on crafting lesbian subjectivity.

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Informal lunch discussion about queer/ed writing. Please RSVP to Iveta Cruse at icruse@uci.edu if you wish to attend lunch.

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.: “Genealogies: Writing Queered Family” - Multimedia presentation by Jonathan Alexander, professor of English and gender & sexuality studies, UC Irvine. “Genealogies” explores alternative family relations as a way to compose sustainable queer identification.

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Concluding reception featuring video footage from Techne. Please RSVP to Iveta Cruse at icruse@uci.edu if you wish to attend the reception.

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator and the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies.