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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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