CSGS Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University » Cheat on CSGS: Events on the town http://www.csgsnyu.org Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:40:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/international-day-to-end-violence-against-sex-workers/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/international-day-to-end-violence-against-sex-workers/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:15:33 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3506 On December 17, International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Marks One Year Since Bodies Discovered on Gilgo Beach

Saturday, December 17 2 to 4 pm

Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan 164 West 100th Street near Amsterdam Avenue 1, 2, or 3 train to 96th Street.

Organized by sex worker support and advocacy [...]]]> On December 17, International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Marks One Year Since Bodies Discovered on Gilgo Beach

Saturday, December 17
2 to 4 pm

Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan
164 West 100th Street near Amsterdam Avenue
1, 2, or 3 train to 96th Street.

Organized by sex worker support and advocacy groups the Red Umbrella Project and the Sex Workers Outreach Project New York. Attendees will be people currently or formerly involved in the sex trades and our friends, family, allies, and those concerned for our health and safety.

In December 2010, the bodies of four women, later identified as Amber Lynn Costello, Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes were discovered on Gilgo Beach in Long Island, after the family of missing woman Shannan Gilbert insisted on a police investigation of her disappearance. The cases remain unsolved, and since December the remains of another six people have been discovered in the area. The Suffolk County Police Department, which is responsible for the investigation, believes that it is likely that there are multiple local killers who are preying on people who sell sexual services.

On December 17, 2011 people in the sex trade and the people who love and support us will gather at Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan from 2 to 4 pm to hold a vigil for the victims of the Long Island killers and the many other people killed every year because they trade sex and are vulnerable to violence. The event will feature community activist speakers, a candle lighting, and a reading of the names of people in the sex trade who have been murdered this year.

The International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers was first organized nearly a decade ago by sex workers in San Francisco to memorialize the people murdered by serial killer Gary Ridgway. Ridgway captured the attitude that cultivates violence towards sex workers: “I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.” At the event, we create a space that challenges this assumption by demonstrating that we have a caring community.

Co-sponsors:

  • The Center for Constitutional Rights
  • HOOK
  • Latino Commission on AIDS
  • NYC Anti-Violence Project
  • Queering OWS (Occupy Wall Street)
  • Paradigm Shift
  • Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP)
  • PONY (Prostitutes of New York)
  • Positive Health Project (PHP)
  • Sex Workers Project
  • Trans Women’s Anti Violence Project
  • Washington Heights CORNER Project
  • VOCAL-NY

(If you would like to become a co-sponsor, please email swank(at)riseup(dot)net.)

For December 17th events worldwide, please visit: http://www.swopusa.org/dec17

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/international-day-to-end-violence-against-sex-workers/feed/ 0 An Evening Talk with Ron Athey and Julie Tolentino http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/an-evening-talk-with-ron-athey-and-julie-tolentino/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/an-evening-talk-with-ron-athey-and-julie-tolentino/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:13:14 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3503 Presented by the NYU Performance Studies Lecture Forum

Thursday, December 15 7 to 9 pm

The Performance Studies Studio Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, 6th Floor

Free and opent to the public, with reception to follow.

Julie Tolentino creates intimate solo movement-based installations including her time-based durational performances, sculptural endurance events and [...]]]> Presented by the NYU Performance Studies Lecture Forum

Thursday, December 15
7 to 9 pm

The Performance Studies Studio
Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway, 6th Floor

Free and opent to the public, with reception to follow.

Julie Tolentino creates intimate solo movement-based installations including her time-based durational performances, sculptural endurance events and audio soundscapes. Currently, her work centers on the body’s (inevitable) disintegration, the excesses of aging and the body’s attempt at secrecy via hidden texts, history, emotion and memory. Tolentino was a lead senior member and company tour manager in David Rousseve/REALITY Dance Theater, a co-director, choreographer, and performer with Ron Athey Company, and has collaborated extensively with many others. She was the original creator of the NY Clit Club, and appeared in Red Hot and Blue’s “Safe Sex is Hot Sex” poster and Gran Fury’s national bus campaign “Kissing Doesn’t Kill” in the early 1990s. She is the co-author of the Lesbian AIDS Project’s Women’s Safer Sex Handbook, and was a member of ACT UP New York affinity groups, House of Color Video Collective and Art Positive. She received an ART MATTERS 2010-11 grant for research/travel to the Philippines and two Yellow House Fund/Tides Foundation grants for curatorial research and programming. She is co-director with Ron Athey of the PRAXIS MOHAVE BOOTCAMP FOR PERFORMANCE ARTISTS, a bi-annual ten-day intensive workshop for international artists, and divides her time between Joshua Tree, Los Angeles, New York City.

Ron Athey’s performance and body art explores stagings of crisis, sexuality, religion, ritual, and death, interrogating the intersections between punk, queer and alternative cultures as well as the practices and politics surrounding HIV/AIDS. His work often engages directly with the ideas of queer philosophers and artists like Georges Bataille, Pierre Molinier and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Athey began performing at underground clubs and galleries with Rozz Williams in 1981, and rose to international prominence during the US Culture Wars of the early 1990s, touring extensively with a large company managed by Julie Tolentino, as well a creating solo and duo works. He has been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers including Honcho and the L.A. Weekly, as well as curated performance art festivals in the U.S. and in Europe. Most recently, Athey has been a Visiting Artist in the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. He is studying towards a PhD at Greenwich University, and currently lives in London. The first ever publication devoted to the work of Ron Athey, Pleading in the Blood: The Art of Ron Athey (edited by Dominic Johnson), will be co-published by the Live Art Development Agency (UK) MIT Press (USA) in 2012.

The Performance Studies Lecture Forum is a series of evening events featuring preeminent scholars and practitioners in the fields of art and performance. The events are presented on weekday evenings in the department’s studio space, and are designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among artists, students and scholars.

For more information, please contact the Department of Performance Studies at NYU: 212-998-1620

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/an-evening-talk-with-ron-athey-and-julie-tolentino/feed/ 0 What is a Rational Response to Catastrophic Risk? http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/what-is-a-rational-response-to-catastrophic-risk/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/what-is-a-rational-response-to-catastrophic-risk/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:09:48 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3500 Presented by the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center

Evelyn Fox Keller Professor Emerita of the History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friday, December 9:30 pm The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave, Room 6112 NYC

Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of the History and Philosophy [...]]]> Presented by the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center

Evelyn Fox Keller
Professor Emerita of the History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friday, December 9:30 pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave, Room 6112
NYC

Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Emerita (Program in Science, Technology, and Society) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of several books, including A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock (1983), Reflections on Gender and Science (1985), The Century of the Gene (2000), Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors and Machines (2002), and The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture (2010). Keller’s research focuses on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science. Co-sponsored by The Sociology Doctoral Program, Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies, and Center for the Study of Women & Society

Free and open to the public.

For more information see the Women’s Studies website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/what-is-a-rational-response-to-catastrophic-risk/feed/ 0 Afro-Atlantic Empiricism and the Circulation of Bodily Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century Spanish Caribbean http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/afro-atlantic-empiricism-and-the-circulation-of-bodily-knowledge-in-the-seventeenth-century-spanish-caribbean/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/afro-atlantic-empiricism-and-the-circulation-of-bodily-knowledge-in-the-seventeenth-century-spanish-caribbean/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:07:11 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3497 A Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar presented by the CUNY Center for the Humanities

Pablo Gomez, History & Geography, Texas Christian University

Friday, December 9 2 pm

The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave, Room C203 NYC

Please join us to discuss this paper by Pablo Gomez (History & Geography, Texas Christian University) which explores the [...]]]> A Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar presented by the CUNY Center for the Humanities

Pablo Gomez, History & Geography, Texas Christian University

Friday, December 9
2 pm

The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave, Room C203
NYC

Please join us to discuss this paper by Pablo Gomez (History & Geography, Texas Christian University) which explores the routes followed by ideas and rites about the body emerging in seventeenth century black Atlantic Caribbean locales like Cartagena de Indias and Havana. Data related to the circulation of bodily knowledge in the Spanish Caribbean evinces a largely ignored process in which black ritual practitioners experimented with new materials and techne they found in the Americas and transmitted a corpus of “bodily knowledge” during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Perambulating and interconnected black health practitioners, using oral tradition, performance, and material culture, functioned as the primordial links for the diffusion of black ideas about corporeality in the Spanish Caribbean. Within their epistemological realms, these healers probed the Caribbean landscape for medical products and explored the particular socio- cultural make up of the places where they would deploy their practices. As their European counterparts, seventeenth century Spanish Caribbean ritual practitioners of African origin –– coming from Europe and Africa or born in the New World –– engaged in procedural, conceptual, material, and social practices that had the specific objective of inquiring about the human body. Through these practices Caribbean black communities entered a larger conversation about the very nature of knowledge in the early modern era.

Our discussant for this paper will be Professor Tamara Walker (History, University of Pennsylvania).

Reading Required. Professor Gomez’s essay is available on the seminar website: http://centerforthehumanities.org/seminars/caribbean-epistemologies

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/afro-atlantic-empiricism-and-the-circulation-of-bodily-knowledge-in-the-seventeenth-century-spanish-caribbean/feed/ 0 Can Sexual Orientation Be Changed? How a Clinical Question Became a Culture Wars Issue http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/can-sexual-orientation-be-changed-how-a-clinical-question-became-a-culture-wars-issue/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/can-sexual-orientation-be-changed-how-a-clinical-question-became-a-culture-wars-issue/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:05:30 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3494 Friday, December 9 1 to 2:30 pm

Jack Drescher, M.D.

Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, New York Medical College Clinical Supervisor and Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University President, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association [...]]]> Friday, December 9
1 to 2:30 pm

Jack Drescher, M.D.

  • Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, New York Medical College
  • Clinical Supervisor and Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University
  • President, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
  • Member, DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders

Weill Cornell Medical College
1300 York Avenue – Weill Auditorium (2nd floor)
NYC

Coffee and desserts to follow in Archbold Commons

Sponsored by the LGBT Committee of the Department of Psychiatry and Medicine, Patients, Society I
Weill Cornell Medical College

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/can-sexual-orientation-be-changed-how-a-clinical-question-became-a-culture-wars-issue/feed/ 0 Call for Submissions: 21 Peaceful Genders http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/call-for-submissions-21-peaceful-genders/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/call-for-submissions-21-peaceful-genders/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:53:13 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3489 21 Peaceful Genders – No Boxes, No Bars, No Apologies

Edited by Doris J. Popovich and Jacqueline H. Boyd

Gender identity is an experience, not an assignment. If you are living this truth and can write about it, we want to hear from you. Together we can dispel myths, give hope to young people, [...]]]> 21 Peaceful Genders – No Boxes, No Bars, No Apologies

Edited by Doris J. Popovich and Jacqueline H. Boyd

Gender identity is an experience, not an assignment. If you are living this truth and can write about it, we want to hear from you. Together we can dispel myths, give hope to young people, educate peers, friends and family and provide an archive / mirror for our own complex gender expressions.

How do you live your peace while navigating the hetero-normative maze? 21 Peaceful Genders – No Boxes, No Bars, No Apologies embodies gender as a place of possibility. Help us cross-pollinate our species with hope. We welcome the edgy and artful, and treasure the peaceful resolution.

Submit original, unpublished Word or text file to www.info(at)21peacefulgenders.com.
1500 word max. Deadline 6/30/12. Paid in copies.

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/call-for-submissions-21-peaceful-genders/feed/ 0 Bridging Struggles, Transforming Resistance: Gender Violence and Prison Industrial Complex Mini-Conference http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/bridging-struggles-transforming-resistance-gender-violence-and-prison-industrial-complex-mini-conference/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/bridging-struggles-transforming-resistance-gender-violence-and-prison-industrial-complex-mini-conference/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:46:25 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3479 In 2001, INCITE! & Critical Resistance called on social justice movements to “develop strategies and analyses that address both state AND interpersonal violence, particularly violence against women.” Join us for a mini-conference in which we commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the statement and explore the new ways of thinking about safety, policing and prisons, [...]]]> In 2001, INCITE! & Critical Resistance called on social justice movements to “develop strategies and analyses that address both state AND interpersonal violence, particularly violence against women.” Join us for a mini-conference in which we commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the statement and explore the new ways of thinking about safety, policing and prisons, and organizing that this statement has inspired.

speakers include: * audre lorde project * black women’s blueprint * critical resistance * INCITE! * jahajee sisters * sauti yetu * shakti peer group * sylvia rivera law project * (list in formation)

Monday, December 5

2 to 8 pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
NYC

For more info, call: 212.817.2005 or email: ch(at)gc.cuny.edu

http://centerforthehumanities.org/

*Please RSVP if you need childcare (how many children & what ages)

Organized by POLICED, a new public seminar series at the CUNY Graduate Center, housed by the Center for the Humanities. This seminar brings together participants from a wide range of backgrounds who work on issues of policing, prison abolition, safety and connected struggles for justice. Through learning and sharing our work together, we hope to gain new insights for engaged work that addresses new/potential solidarities.

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/bridging-struggles-transforming-resistance-gender-violence-and-prison-industrial-complex-mini-conference/feed/ 0 Beyond Belief? Religious Conservatives and Sex Education in the Czech Republic http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/beyond-belief-religious-conservatives-and-sex-education-in-the-czech-republic/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/beyond-belief-religious-conservatives-and-sex-education-in-the-czech-republic/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:43:57 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3476 Presented by the New York University Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Network of East-West Women

Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Friday, December 2 4:30 to 6 pm

Katerina Liskova, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Program, Masaryk University

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies New York University 285 Mercer Street, 7th [...]]]> Presented by the New York University Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Network of East-West Women

Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Friday, December 2
4:30 to 6 pm

Katerina Liskova, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Program, Masaryk University

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
New York University
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
(between Waverly and Washington Place)

For more information, follow us at http://gendertransformationeurope.wordpress.com/.

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/beyond-belief-religious-conservatives-and-sex-education-in-the-czech-republic/feed/ 0 Revanchist Masculinity and the Framing of Identity: How Pimps View Women, Domination, and Themselves http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/revanchist-masculinity-and-the-framing-of-identity-how-pimps-view-women-domination-and-themselves/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/revanchist-masculinity-and-the-framing-of-identity-how-pimps-view-women-domination-and-themselves/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:42:03 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3473 The Crime, Law and Deviance Workshop of the NYU Sociology Department and the Institute for Law and Society

Friday, December 2

2 to 4 pm 295 Lafayette Street 4th Floor Conference Room

To discuss a draft paper by Max Besbris, a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department. The title of his paper is Revanchist [...]]]> The Crime, Law and Deviance Workshop of the NYU Sociology Department and the Institute for Law and Society

Friday, December 2

2 to 4 pm
295 Lafayette Street
4th Floor Conference Room

To discuss a draft paper by Max Besbris, a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department. The title of his paper is Revanchist Masculinity and the Framing of Identity: How Pimps View Women, Domination, and Themselves.

The paper is not attached because of the restrictions the Lyris system imposes on the size of files that can be sent out to the list. Anyone wanting a copy may request one by e-mailing me at dg4(at)nyu.edu.

Light refreshments will be served at the workshop.
– David Greenberg

]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/revanchist-masculinity-and-the-framing-of-identity-how-pimps-view-women-domination-and-themselves/feed/ 0 Visions Coinciding: An Elizabeth Bishop Centennial Conference http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/visions-coinciding-an-elizabeth-bishop-centennial-conference/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/12/visions-coinciding-an-elizabeth-bishop-centennial-conference/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:39:33 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3470 Thursday and Friday, December 1 and 2

Co-organized by the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Poetry Society of America, with the support of the NYU Humanities Initiative.

Free and open to the public

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place

Thursday, 12/1

6-6:45 pm: Seeing Elizabeth Bishop, [...]]]> Thursday and Friday, December 1 and 2

Co-organized by the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Poetry Society of America, with the support of the NYU Humanities Initiative.

Free and open to the public

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
1 Washington Place

Thursday, 12/1

6-6:45 pm: Seeing Elizabeth Bishop, by Eric Karpeles

7-8:30 pm: Bishop in Brazil Screening & Discussion, by Helena Blaker, Brett Millier, Barbara Page, and Lloyd Schwartz, with Alice Quinn

Friday, 12/2

1-2:30 pm: Elizabeth Bishop and Modern Art, by William Benton and Peggy Samuels, with Lisa Goldfarb

3-4:30 pm: Editors’ Roundtable, by Joelle Biele, Saskia Hamilton, Lloyd Schwartz and Thomas Travisono, with Jonathan Galassi

5-6pm: Gallatin Poet/Poetry Teacher and Student Poetry Reading, by Emily Fragos, Scott Hightower, and students Jacqueline Allen, Emma Behnke, Stephanie Rodas and Luke Vargas

6:30-8 pm: Celebratory Poetry Reading, by Frank Bidart, John L. Koethe, Yusek Komunyakaa, Maureen McLane, Mark Strand and Jean Valentine

RSVP & questions: WP Coordinator Molly Kleiman, mollykleiman(at)nyu.edu

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