Roundtable: “Nineties Theory: (Still) Critical or Cringe?”

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

This roundtable brings together scholars from diverse academic spaces to assess post-structural and queer theory from the 1990s. Are many of the theories relevant during that time still critical/tenable/applicable in the contemporary period?

Section

• Critical & Contemporary Political Theory / Critical & Contemporary Political Theory

Chair

• Tim Seul, Waseda University

Participants

• Ramon Soto Crespo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Lisa Shaffer, South Bend Museum of Art

• Melba Velez Ortiz, Grand Valley State University

• Diane S. Rubenstein, Cornell University