Jasbir K. Puar is a professor at The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.

Puar is the author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Duke University Press, 2017) which has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press, 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, and is available in French and Spanish, re-issued as an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (2017), and forthcoming in Greek and Portuguese. Puar is currently completing her third book, titled Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts.

Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly, mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Puar’s edited volumes include “Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization” (GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies); and co-edited volumes on “Sexuality and Space” (Society and Space); “Interspecies” (Social Text); and “Viral” (Women’s Studies Quarterly).

Puar is also co-author of exhibitions for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019) and the Sharjah Art Biennial (2023). She is the recipient of the 2019 Kessler Award from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY, which recognizes lifetime achievement in and impact on queer research and organizing.

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This event is supported by the Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminar Program and cosponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Humanities Institute.