Lecture: Queer Celebrity

BySamita Nandy

Jack Halberstam speaks on Queer Celebrity

The Celebrity, Citizenship and Status project at the University of Portsmouth is pleased to welcome Professor Jack Halberstam to give a keynote at the Queer Celebrity Conference in Portsmouth, 6-7 June 2019. Given the wide interest in Professor Halberstam’s research and writing, this lecture has been made free and open to the public.

Jack Halberstam is a professor at Columbia University and an internationally renowned gender and queer theorist. Professor Halberstam is the author of six books including Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), and, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (U of California Press, 2017).

Date: Thursday 6 June 2019

Time: 6-7pm

Venue: University of Portsmouth, Richmond Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth PO1 3DE

Parking: Milldam car park on Burnaby Road (PO1 3RE) is available after 5 pm

For maps and directions please click here https://www.port.ac.uk/maps


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