In recent years, some of the most urgent and highly charged public and political debates in the Anglophone Caribbean have centered on sexual citizenship. The acute homophobia of the dancehall has dominated national and international attention and crafted a region of intolerance and hate crimes. This talk opens up the terms on which Caribbean subjects can participate in global debates about sexuality by shifting discussions away from contesting homophobia towards contesting heteronormativity.

Professor Picciotto pre-circulated her essay to facilitate discussion on the relationship between Protestantism, experimental science, the public sphere, and intellectual labor itself.

Randall Halle is the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He studied at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the University of Freiburg, the University of Utrecht, and the Free University in Berlin. He received his PhD from Madison in 1995. Halle works primarily on film, visual culture, and social philosophy. He is currently pursuing two different projects tentatively entitled Interzone Europe: Social Philosophy and the Transnational Imagination as well as Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference. Halle has received numerous grants.

Part of the conference The Idea of France

Colloquium on French Global : A New Approach to Literary History (2010) (esp. introduction and articles by Profs. Suleiman and McDonald) The suggested reading for the colloquium discussion for Suleiman/McDonald’s French Global the introduction and the articles by the editors and by Lawrence Kritzman.
Introduced by Giuseppina Mecchia (University of Pittsburgh).

Part of the conference The Idea of France

Colloquium on his book, Can Islam be French?: Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State (2010).
The suggested reading for the colloquium discussion on Bowen’s Can Islam be French? is chaps. 1-3, and 9.

Introduced by Neil Doshi (University of Pittsburgh)

Over 75 papers will be delivered on topics from all fields (literature, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, art, music, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, etc.) that treat the question of the idea of France or Frenchness in any time period from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.

For a full version of the conference schedule, please visit the Web site.

A talk by influential senior scholar Valerie Traub of the University of Michigan entitled "Shakespeare's Sex" on Wednesday, November 16 at 3:00 in CL 332. Traub is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of *The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England*. Other books include *Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama* (1992) and two co-edited collections: *Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects* (1996) and *Gay Shame* (2009).