April 26: The Only White Woman in the Village

The Only White Woman in the Village a lunch talk with Leena-Maija Rossi Friday, April 26 12:30 to 1:45 pm Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 709 (please note room change) Leena-Maija Rossi, Gender Studies, University of Helsinki; Visual Culture, University of Turku; and CSGS Visiting Scholar Studies on …

April 5: Homoerotic Subjectivities Against, With, and Beyond Cubanía

Homoerotic Subjectivities Against, With, and Beyond Cubanía a lunch talk with Margaret Frohlich Friday, April 5 12:30 to 1:45 pm Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 741 Margaret Frohlich, Spanish and Portuguese, Dickinson College, and CSGS Visiting Scholar Fidel Castro’s acknowledgement in 2010 of the imprisonment of homosexuals in …

February 22: Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride: Gay Marriage, Affective Labor, and the Filipina “Mail Order Bride”

Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride: Gay Marriage, Affective Labor, and the Filipina “Mail Order Bride” a lunch talk with Gina Velasco Friday, February 22 12:30 to 1:45 pm Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 741 Gina Velasco, Women’s & Gender Studies, Keene State College, and CSGS Visiting …

Cabaret of Confusion: Political Performance and the Work of Variety

a lunch talk with T.L. Cowan February 8, Wednesday 12:30 to 1:45 pm T.L. Cowan, Women’s and Gender Studies and English, University of Saskatchewan; Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University The cabaret—or, more broadly, the variety show—is arguably the most open and resilient form of live expressive culture …

Anti-trafficking and Rehabilitation Discourses: A Case Study in HIV/AIDS Intervention Strategies in India

a lunch talk with Satarupa Dasgupta January 27, Friday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Satarupa Dasgupta, Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity Fellow, New York University Articulation of sex work entails the commonly observed connection between sex work and trafficking, proposed delegitimization of sex work, and rescue and rehabilitation propositions for sex workers. I analyze …

Smearing the Pap: brown bag lunch talk

a brown bag lunch talk with Elizabeth R. Boskey December 2, Friday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Elizabeth R. Boskey, CSGS Visiting Scholar The Pap smear was one of the great public health innovations of the 20th Century. However, the way in which the test is currently used brings up important issues of sexism, paternalism, and …

Framing Responsibility: HIV and the Performativity of the Law

a brown bag lunch talk with Kane Race November 11, Friday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Kane Race, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, and CSGS Visiting Scholar How can we register the participation of a range of elements, extending beyond the human subject, in the production of HIV events and drug effects? In the …

(M)Other Seacole's Wonderful Adventures: Claiming the English Family in the Crimea

(M)OTHER SEACOLE’S WONDERFUL ADVENTURES: CLAIMING THE ENGLISH FAMILY IN THE CRIMEA a Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Elahe Haschemi Yekani April 4, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Elahe Haschemi Yekani, English and American Studies, Humboldt University Berlin Situated at the interdisciplinary intersections of literary and cultural studies combining approaches from gender studies, postcolonial and queer …

Creating Proper Men: Masculinities, Embodiment & Agency in the West Bank

CREATING PROPER MEN: MASCULINITIES, EMBODIMENT AND AGENCY IN THE WEST BANK a Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Maria Malmström March 7, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Maria Malmström, CSGS Visiting Scholar In this talk, Dr. Malmström will discuss constructions of gender, embodiment and agency among male Hamas youths in the West Bank through the prism …

Coming Out or Inviting In?: Reframing Disclosure Paradigms: lunch talk

COMING OUT OR INVITING IN?: REFRAMING DISCLOSURE PARADIGMS a Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Darnell L. Moore February 7, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Darnell L. Moore, CSGS Visiting Scholar Click here for a PDF transcript of the talk. Does “coming out of the closet” properly function as the most useful way to name one’s …