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UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010: Call for Papers

Friday and Saturday, October 8-9, 2010, Royce Hall

University of California – Los Angeles

This year’s UCLA QUEER Studies Conference welcomes talks or pre-planned panels dealing with any of the following diverse topics/questions/concerns:

Queering trans-nationalism; queer & trans-nationalism
Queer Globalization: On cultural and/or economic exchanges
Queer politics and theories of migrations
Queer translations: How “to do queer studies” [...]

The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation

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

The Scholar and Feminist Conference XXXV: FEMINISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Presented by the Barnard Center for Research on Women

Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY

With keynote addresses by Majora Carter and Joni Seager

Already among the most vulnerable populations worldwide, women and other marginalized groups have been the most acutely affected by the instabilities produced by climate change. Issues such as water scarcity, [...]

“Spanking and Poetry”: An Exhibition & Conference on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

February 25-26, 2010

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City

Visit the “Spanking and Poetry” website for more info.

Politically Queer: Social In(queer)y and the University: Call for Papers

The New School For Social Research
Union of Political Science Students Presents

The 2010 Graduate Student Conference

Friday, April 30th 2010

This year’s Department of Politics Graduate Conference explores the application of Queer Theory within social research. Queer Theory, though firmly cemented in the humanities, has yet to have as great an impact in the social sciences. Twenty years [...]

Call for Papers/Demande de Communications: Canadian Women’s Studies Association/L’Association des Études Sur les Femmes (CWSA/ACEF)

DATE: May 29 to May 31, 2010

LOCATION: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

For more information, please visit the CWSA/ACEF website.

The CWSA/ACEF is now seeking proposals, in either French or English, for its annual conference, held in conjunction with the Congress of the CFHSS/FCSH. Submissions for papers and panels can be made by individuals or groups, and [...]

Before Sex: One Day Conference at Rutgers University

October 23, 2009
8:30 AM to 6 PM

Teleconference Room
4th floor of Alexander Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Until recently we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as socio-intellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. But over the past three decades, evidence and arguments have accumulated to suggest that the categories of oppositional gender [...]

Feminism/s Without Borders?: Perspectives from France & the U.S.

October 16, Friday
10:30 AM to 7:30 PM

La Maison Française
16 Washington Mews
between 8th Street and Washington Square North

A symposium co-organized with the Institute of French Studies, NYU

Made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, USA, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris

This symposium will put scholars from the U.S. and France into conversation [...]

The Praxis of Feminist Pedagogy

The Feminist Studies Group at the CUNY Graduate Center is holding the Third Feminist Pedagogy Conference on November 6, 2009.

Friday, November 6, 2009
8:30AM-6:30PM

CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Opening Remarks: 9:15 AM Skylight Room, 9th Floor
VICTORIA PITTS-TAYLOR
Sociology, Queens College and The Graduate Center

Keynote Address: 4:00 PM, Segal Theatre
MICHELLE FINE
Distinguished Professor, Psychology, The Graduate Center
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