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Permutations of the Species: Towards an Anthropology of Independent Disability Film Festivals

A joint presentation by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder

April 1, Thursday
5 to 7 PM

David T. Mitchell, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University

Sharon L. Snyder, Brace Yourselves Productions

In this co-presentation, Mitchell and Snyder analyze the ideological, aesthetic, and pedagogical effects of disability film festivals. Mitchell and Snyder are particularly interested to explore the way such [...]

The Films of William E. Jones @ Anthology Film Archives

February 26-March 4 @ Anthology Film Archives

Beginning with his haunting 1991 feature debut, MASSILLON, an autobiographical account of growing up as a gay man in the American Midwest, William E. Jones has built a remarkable body of work that balances formal experimentation with astute cultural inquiry. Though his films are extremely varied – encompassing the [...]

A Symposium Honoring Judith Butler’s Contributions to the Scholarship and Practice of Gender and Sexuality Law

Friday, March 5, 2010 9:00 am

Presented by the the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law and the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School

Each year the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law devotes a day-long symposium to the significant contributions of a senior scholar to the literature of gender and/or [...]

2010 New York Fornés Festival: Maria Irene Fornés

March 25th to April 5th, 2010

Presented by INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc)  in association with NYU’s Department of English

INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will join New York University’s Department of English and its Program in Dramatic Literature to celebrate the 80th birthday of playwright, director and teacher Maria Irene Fornés. To [...]

Re-Orientale: Reading Orientalism — Gayatri Spivak & Kyoo Lee

Tuesday, March 2nd, 6:30pm

This public seminar with Gayatri Spivak sets out to explore the heart of Occidentalism from the outside in by using Edward Said’s field-defining modern classic as the starting point.

Presented by the CUNY Center for the Humanities.

Gayatri Spivak is University Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University.

Kyoo [...]

Joseph Keckler @ NYU Performance Studies Lecture Forum

TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND

7 to 8:30 PM

NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the first event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum: JOSEPH KECKLER.

He will discuss and perform his work.

Joseph Keckler is a performance artist, writer, and singer. His work explores the gap between theater and life, establishing unexpected connections between art, identity, and contemporary alienation. [...]

A Feminine Palette: Women Artists of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Presented by the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden

Friday, March 5th at 6:30 PM

Panelists Dr. Katherine Manthorne of City University of New York’s Graduate Center; Catherine Coleman Brawer, M.A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and Ph.D student Whitney Thompson, also of City University of New York’s Graduate Center, discuss the work of three [...]

Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts @ the New School

Monday, March 1st @ 6:30 p.m.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street — Room 510
New York, NY

WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) will celebrate the formation of their new organization with a reading and panel presentation at the New School in New York, NY.

Merging the creative and the critical, this event will feature [...]

Different Subjects: Aesthetics and U.S. Minority Discourse

March 23, Tuesday
6:30 to 8 PM

Kandice Chuh, English, University of Maryland

This talk brings together aesthetic theory and U.S. minority discourse. By doing so, Chuh illuminates the longstanding and intimate relationship between aesthetics and “difference,” and shows how the critical vantage of minority discourse revises trenchant understandings of, especially, aesthetic subjectivity. This new understanding serves as [...]

The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation

Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

February 25th and 26th, 2010

Click here for full program, or visit the CUNY Center for the Humanities.

Department of Comparative Literature
Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Keynote Speaker: Peter Brooks and J.M. Bernstein