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Affective Tendencies: Bodies, Pleasures, Sexualities conference

Affective Tendencies: Bodies, Pleasures, Sexualities

Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University October 7-9, 2010

Deadline for Registration: September 15, 2010

This conference addresses the question of how sexuality, pleasure and bodies constitute, at least in part, affective life. Affective tendencies, orientations, trajectories have regulated how we understand and experience bodies, pleasures, sexualities. How are [...]

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead conference

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead

September 24–26, 2010

Join hundreds of women for a weekend of celebration and conversation guaranteed to wake up your inner leader and leave you brimming with renewed purpose. Omega’s annual Women & Power conference is one of the most celebrated women’s gatherings in the world, unique [...]

Framing the Vulva: Genital Cosmetic Surgery & Genital Diversity conference in Las Vegas

THE NEW VIEW CAMPAIGN announces its THIRD Conference, to be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Sunday, September 26, 2010.

FRAMING THE VULVA: GENITAL COSMETIC SURGERY AND GENITAL DIVERSITY

While the vulva surgeons are holding a conference on the Las Vegas strip, the New View, in collaboration with the UNLV Women’s [...]

The Politics and Poetics of Refugees

An Interdisciplinary Symposium at New York University

September 23 to 25, Thursday to Saturday times to be announced

Keynote lecture by Thomas Keenan

Other participants include Eliot Borenstein, David Campbell, Ilana Feldman, Sara M. Green, Nina Ha, Zenia Kish, Jana Lipman, Louisa Schein, April Shemak, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Celina Su, and Miriam Ticktin

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Sexed Asian Machines: On the Communicability of Multimedia

A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Jian Chen

September 20, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm

Jian Chen, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU

Prior to the multimedia convergence initiated by mass digitalization, documentary and pornographic film/video offered the experiences of communicability and interactivity now attributed to “post-cinematic” multimedia. Pornography and documentary are arguably anti-cinematic [...]

Ah Kua Show: A Singapore Transsexual’s Journey to Womanhood

The Ah Kua Show, a stage adapation of Leona Lo’s autobiography, From Leonard to Leona, A Singapore Transsexual’s Journey to Womanhood, was first staged in Singapore in August 2009. This year, the play will open at the New York International Fringe Festival at 4.30 pm on Saturday, 21 Aug [...]

Working Sex: Power, Practice, and Politics: 4th Desiree Alliance Conference

July 25-30, 2010 Las Vegas, NV

www.desireealliance.org/conference.htm

Conference to Unify and Educate in the areas of:

Academics & Policy Activism Arts, Entertainment & Media Business Development Harm Reduction Outreach!

REGISTRATION CLOSES ON JULY 15th!!

Just when you thought the Desiree Alliance Conference couldn’t get better… we secured a LIMITED number of hotel rooms at [...]

Out in the Himalayas: Lesbians of Yunnan: Same Sex Relations in Minority China

Presented by the RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART in association with OUT magazine and IN THE LIFE

Wednesday night events in Gay Pride Month focusing on gay, lesbian and transgender issues in the Himalayan region.

June 9, 2010 7:00 PM

$15/$13.50 for members

$7 Student Discount w/ Valid Student Identification

Includes pre-event tour Transgender Transformation [...]

Queer Theory & Queer of Color Critique Workgroup

Presented by the Summer 2010 NYU Pride in Practice Identity/Expression Education Series with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Explore power, discourse and identity in a peer study group that will focus on the intersections of race, gender, and sexualities.

Gain accessible foundations in the core concepts of academia: heteronormativity, homonormativity, [...]

Strategic Imperatives for Ending Violence against Women: Linkages to Education, Economic Security, and Health

ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE

REGISTER NOW Online at http://www.unifem-usnc.org/conference

When: June 11 and 12, 2010

Where: Hunter College, West Wing, East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City

What: A conference to build collaborations to understand the intersections between violence against women and key social investments: the economy, health and education. Convening leaders [...]