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Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star screening

Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star screening

Digital Religion: Knowledge, Politics and Practice Series The Center for Religion and Media The Center for Media, Culture and History in co-sponsorship with The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies & NYU Abu Dhabi present

a screening with filmmaker

HAVANA MARKING SILENCING THE SONG: AN [...]

CSGS Visiting Scholar: Sylvie Tissot

CSGS Visiting Scholar: fall 2011 Sylvie Tissot

Sylvie Tissot is a Professor of Sociology and Political Science at University of Paris 8. Her main field is urban sociology, with a more recent interest for the study of gender and sexuality. After completing her PhD on underprivileged areas in France (banlieues), she conducted fieldwork in [...]

REVIEW: I am, I am following, I am after the animal: “Derrida’s Queer Cats”

I am, I am following, I am after the animal: “Derrida’s Queer Cats,” a Lecture by Carla Freccero New York University, 10 November 2010

On the heels of Elizabeth Freeman’s lecture about erotohistoriography, Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, explored another historiographic practice predicated on [...]

December 17th: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

7th Annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

For the full program, visit: http://wp.me/p10PnF-2x

When: Friday, December 17, 2010 at 7:30PM – 9:30PM

Where: Metropolitan Community Church of New York, Sanctuary (2nd floor), 446 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018 btw 9th & 10th Aves. Map: http://bit.ly/dUenDt

Who: Current and former sex [...]

Christianity and the Global Politics of Sexuality

On Thursday, October 21, the Barnard Center for Research on Women will present:

Christianity and the Global Politics of Sexuality – A panel discussion with Elizabeth Castelli, Eng-Beng Lim, Ju Hui Judy Han, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, and Jordan Alexander Stein

Thursday, 10/21, 7 pm Diana Center Event Oval Barnard College 3009 Broadway (at 117th Street)

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Inside the Revolution: Power, Sex, and Technique in Freud’s “Wild” Analysis

Inside the Revolution: Power, Sex, and Technique in Freud’s “Wild” Analysis Scientific Meeting

Thursday, October 21 8:00 pm

Muriel Dimen, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis The American Institute for Psychoanalysis The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center

329 East 62nd Street

At once profound and full of holes, “Wild” Analysis simultaneously declares a revolution [...]

The Politics of GLBT Rights in Israel (and beyond): Between Queer Politics and Homonationalism

The Politics of GLBT Rights in Israel (and beyond): Between Queer Politics and Homonationalism Presented by the Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality Law

Monday, October 18 4:20 pm Columbia Case Lounge (Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street, 7th floor) Aeyal Gross Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law

Commentator: Katherine Franke, Columbia Law [...]

What do Middle-Aged Hasidic Women Want? Self-Help Cassettes and Everyday Ethics

What do Middle-Aged Hasidic Women Want? Self-Help Cassettes and Everyday Ethics

Thursday, October 14, 2010 5 – 6:30 PM 1 Washington Place Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts

NYU Gallatin School Ayala Fader Anthropology/Fordham University

For more information: http://crm.as.nyu.edu/page/home

Co-Sponsors: Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Center for Religion and Media

Extended deadline for application: Visiting Scholars to GEXcel themes 7 & 8

Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars are still open for competition in GEXcel themes 7 & 8: “Teaching Normcritical Sex – Getting Rid of Violence. TRANSdisciplinary, TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment, Emotions and Ethics, with a particular focus on the subtheme “Gendered Violence”. EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 3 May 2010.

BACKGROUND [...]

Saving Women’s Studies at UNLV: Please help

A message from Lynn Comella, an alum of UMass, who is currently in the Women’s Studies department at UNLV:

April 11, 2010

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

As many of you are aware, Nevada has been hit especially hard by the economic downturn. Revenue from gaming and tourism – the two biggest sources of state [...]