LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series: Toward a Global Queer Theory: On Writing as an LGBTQIA+ Scholar of Color and Building Transnational Solidarities

Featuring Petrus Liu, Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

In this talk about his latest book from Duke University Press, The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus, Petrus Liu discusses the challenges of working as a queer scholar of color and some strategies for building genuine transnational dialogues and solidarities. In The Specter of Materialism, Petrus Liu analyzes the shortcomings of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. This book explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories.

LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series events are open to all members of the BU community including students and alums. Please check out the list of all BU faculty talks this academic year https://www.bu.edu/thecenter/programs-services/scholar-series/