1) Plenary Session:
Collaboration as Feminist Praxis Revisited
M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Friday, November 12
M. Jacqui Alexander (University of Toronto), and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University), will build on their conversation about the nature of collaborative research and curricular practices, transnational feminisms and alliances, how they see this work as central to the field of Women's and Gender Studies, and how they have come together in their work to engage in their own forms of "difficult dialogues."
2) 
Plenary Session:
Complicating the queer
Juana Maria Rodriguez and
Gayatri Gopinath
Saturday, November 13
Juana Maria Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley where she is also the Director of the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
She is the author of Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU 2003) and has published numerous articles related to her research interests in sexuality studies, queer activism in a transnational context, critical race theory, technology and media arts, and Latin@ and Caribbean studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the discursive uses of sex in queer politics and culture.
With research interests that include queer studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory, Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005), and has published articles on gender, sexuality and South Asian diasporic culture in journals such as GLQ, Social Text, Positions, and Diaspora. Her most recent publication is entitled “Archive, Affect and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions,” forthcoming in the anthology Political Emotions (eds. Ann Cvetkovich, et al, Routledge, 2010). She is currently at work on a new project on critical regionalities and comparative queer studies in the global south.