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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 [...]
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 [...]
March 1, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM
Amber Musser, Gender Politics, Draper Program, NYU
Imagine that you were in love with the Golden Gate Bridge? What would this mean to you? What kind of relationship would develop? This talk is an exploration of objectum sexuals–people who form meaningful and erotic relationships with objects. By examining this phenomenon, we [...]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE FOR SOMETIME NEXT YEAR.
Elizabeth Freeman, English, UC Davis
Developmentalist accounts of psychological and bodily becoming plot the “growth” and “maturation” of both individual subjects and populations in ways that reduce what counts as a viable social formation or a livable life. Taking issue with the straightjacket of [...]
A new reading group for NYU graduate students is being formed under the sponsorship of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. The Gender and Sexuality Working Group (GSWG) is a reading and working group for graduate students from all schools and disciplines of NYU, at any stage of their program, whose research [...]
February 8, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM
Katie Brewer Ball, Doctoral Candidate, Performance Studies, NYU
The “more speculative genres,” as Junot Diaz calls them, such as science fiction and fantasy continue to enthusiastically capture the attention and interest of the American public. What precisely, is the draw that such stories hold for mass consumers, and more specifically why [...]
February 5, Friday
THIS EVENT IS AT FULL CAPACITY. NO MORE RSVPs WILL BE TAKEN. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
MC: Nao Bustamante
Panelists include:
Barbara Browning, Performance Studies, NYU
Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
Gayatri Gopinath, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
Ricardo L. Ortíz, American Studies, Georgetown College
Performers: Dynasty Handbag (Jibz Cameron) and Kalup Linzy
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department [...]
Rebecca Colesworthy, Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought, NYU
December 7, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 PM
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
41-51 East 11th Street, Room 709
between University Place and Broadway
wheelchair access at 85-87 University Place between 11th & 12th Streets
This talk proposes a connection between the “modernist turn” in Anglo-American literature and the “return” [...]
December 1, Tuesday
4 to 6:30 PM
SCA Gallery Space
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
Bowery @ East 5th Street
A roundtable discussion with:
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, UCLA Law
Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Karen Shimakawa, Performance Studies, NYU
This forum commemorates the 20th anniversary of the enunciation and analysis of “intersectionality” by legal theorist Kimberlé W. Crenshaw [...]
November 20, Friday
4 to 6 PM
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
For more information, please visit: http://sca.as.nyu.edu/object/stocktonmorton_sca_fall09
Panel members:
Event and panel host: Lisa Duggan (SCA, NYU)
The Queer Child: Or Growing Sideways in the 20th Century
Kathryn Bond Stockton
With comment by: Prof. Jose Muñoz (Performance Studies, NYU)
(Series Q, Duke University Press) Children are thoroughly, [...]
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