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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Frieda Ekotto – “The Erotic Tale of Karmen Gei: The Taboo of Female Homosexuality in Question” – September 23, 2010

In this presentation, Professor Frieda Ekotto is concerned with a new reading of sexuality, spirituality and race in the Senegalese film Karmen Gei. This reading explores the formation of sexuality and spirituality through an examination of a work which represents modern Senegalese culture and society. Professor Ekotto’s discussion aims to offer answers to the fundamental question posed by this erotic, subversive and transgressive film: Within modern Senegalese society and culture, is it possible to transcend the sexual taboo of female homosexuality?

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Denis Provencher – “Queer-Arab-French: Sexuality, Islam and Citizenship in France” – September 13, 2010

How do Maghrebi-French men negotiate and understand same-sex desire within a French urban context? Does the ethnic North African, who pursues erotic same-sex relationships in France, identify himself as “gay” or “homosexual”? Can these men explain themselves to their families, to their diasporic North African communities, and relate to their Muslim faith? In this presentation, Professor Denis Provencher explores the process by which Maghrebi-French men have begun to construct alternative same-sex identities with the recovery of North African traditions.

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Charles Batson – “Queer/ing Québec” – November 12, 2009

Through a focus on the stage-play Being at Home with Claude by René-Daniel Dubois and its filmic adaptation by Jean Beaudin, Batson proposes a reading of Québec as a Queer space.  In this Francophone province surrounded by hundreds of millions of Anglophones marked by cultural tensions even prior to calls for a “Québec libre,” notions of what constitutes minority and majority identities seem never fully fixed.  Our look at the Queer as an allegory for Québec may well reveal a Québec that participates in making, creating, and nourishing (itself as) Queerness.

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Philippe Dubois – “Why Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche” – October 8, 2009

Real men don’t eat quiche. Or do they?  When it comes to virility, attempts at measuring the potency of certain types of food or mysterious concoctions on performance often rely on unverified facts and entail a host of undesirable side-effects.   A carefully prepared quiche awakens the senses just as well as the next blue pill.  At least, that is the opinion the gastronome offered as subtle questions of masculine desire were cleverly folded within XIXth century gastronomic discourse—a take on what ‘real men’ eat that arguably continues to define our modern practices in the kitchen and in the bedroom.

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Brian Martin – “Gays in the Military: Combat Companions and Soldier Lovers in France” – September 29, 2009

Long before contemporary debates on “Gays in the Military” and the United States Army’s policy of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” soldiers looked to one another for emotional comfort, physical intimacy, and mutual support. From Charlemagne to Charles de Gaulle, the French historical record is rich in tales of military camaraderie and friendship. Published in 1892, Émile Zola’s celebrated war novel The Debacle is a monumental account of the French resistance and defeat during the War of 1870, that inscribes soldiers into a literary tradition stretching back to the warrior lovers of The Iliad and prefigures the homosexual soldiers of Cocteau, […]

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