Beginning our collaborations together: sharing research

Hi Folks -- the presenters tomorrow will be discussing the following essays if you want to read them yourselves. This is not a requirement. Part of the point of presentations is that we get to know about more materials than we each probably have time to read ourselves. Still, some of these materials may turn out to be very interesting to you nonetheless. You may want to look at them before hand, if you have the time and interest. Or you may discover in the presentations your additional interests and read stuff after presentations.

So, for those who might want to read them before, here are the citations. They are all available through Research Port this time around. This may not always be the case, but as much as possible we hope so. So you can take these citations and look them up yourself.

These are actually already listed on your syllabus. Not everything is listed there however.

For tomorrow:

• Boellstorff, T. (2007). When Marriage Falls, Queer Coincidences in straight Time. GLQ, 13(2-3), 227-248.
• Brandzel, A. L. (2005). Queering Citizenship? Same-Sex Marriage and the State. GLQ 11(2), 171–204.
• Card, C. (2007). Gay Divorce: Thoughts on the Legal Regulation of Marriage. Hypatia, 22(1), 24-38.

For next week:

• Johnson, K. R. (2003). Struck by Lightning? Interracial Intimacy and Racial Justice. Human Rights Quarterly, 25, 528–566
• Loutzenheiser, L. W., & MacIntosh, L. B. (2004). Citizenships, Sexualities, and Education. Theory into Practice, 43(2), 151-158.
• Mumford, K. (2005). The Miscegenation Analogy Revisited: Same-Sex Marriage as a Civil Rights Story. American Quarterly, 57(2), 523-531.

So presenters are working to tell people enough about these articles to substitute to some extent for reading them, and yet still be able to talk about them and consider reading them for themselves.

Class members should listen carefully and generously, take notes and prepare to ask questions and engage in discussion. Don't make the presenters do all the work of creating discussion. Help. Remember you will be in the same boat soon, so be the kind of collaborative group presence you hope to have for your presentation.

Everyone should be thinking ahead to how this information will help us in our class project. So prepare for class by thinking about that, going over the syllabus and looking ahead.

Best wishes, Katie