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Desire: From Eros to Eroticism: Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

November 10, Thursday 6:30 pm Peter Brooks (Princeton University) discusses “Desire at the End.”

Friday, November 11 5 pm David Konstan (New York University) will examine “Beauty and Desire, or When did Aesthetics Go Astray?”

Keynotes: Peter Brooks and David Konstan

The concept of desire has been the subject of much examination throughout centuries [...]

Call for Submissions: Black Gay Genius: Joseph Beam and In the Life

Call for Submissions: Black Gay Genius: Joseph Beam and In the Life

On the eve of the 25th Anniversary of the seminal publication, In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, edited by Joseph Beam, we are currently seeking submissions for an anthology on the legacy of Joseph Beam and In the Life. This anthology [...]

CFP: Queering Religion, Religious Queers

Intersecting Contradiction? Queering Religion, Religious Queers Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon (eds)

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Deadline for Abstracts: 06 January, 2012

This collection will consider how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity (Stein, 2001; Yip, 2005; Taylor, 2009). It asks how these intersections [...]

CFP: Drama and Domestic Violence

Abstracts are invited for a panel investigating the portrayal of domestic violence in drama of any nationality or period. Sponsored by the academic journal Comparative Drama, this panel will be held at the 36th Comparative Drama Conference, hosted by Stevenson University in Baltimore, MD, March 29-31, 2012.

Papers should be 15 minutes in [...]

Call for Abstracts: 5th Annual Conf for New Media, Youth, and Sexual Health

Sex::Tech is the premier event for health professionals; technology experts; researchers and educators; community leaders and advocates; parents and young people to advance sexual health awareness, knowledge, and strategies. This annual gathering is hosted by ISIS Inc., a California-based nonprofit providing leadership, innovation, education, and research for technology to promote sexual health, healthy [...]

Seminars in the City: Queer Bloomsbury/Buggersbury

Presented by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Facilitated by Dr. Andrea Freud Loewenstein

Seminars will run Thursday Evenings on the following dates:

October 20th and 27th and November 3rd and 10th 7 to 9 pm

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue NYC

“How queer,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “to have so many selves.” [...]

Strategic Displacements: Narratives of Transnational Adoption and the Unending Korean War

Strategic Displacements: Narratives of Transnational Adoption and the Unending Korean War

Film Screening and Colloquium: Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies, Korean Studies Colloquium, and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU

Film Screening:

The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger followed by discussion with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

Time: Monday, Oct. 17, 6:30-8:30 pm [...]

Paisley Currah talk at the CUNY Graduate Center 10/20

Seminar in Sexuality and Gender

Thursday, October 20 · 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Paisley Currah works in the intersections of political theory, gender and sexuality studies, studies in law and society, LGBT studies, and transgender studies. He has widely written on the transgender rights movement.

His current work investigates state constructions of sex for the [...]

Queer Artists of Color Showcase & Roundtable Discussion

Spotlight: Empowerment Through Art! QPOC Artist Showcase & Roundtable

Thursday, October 6 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm Bluestockings Bookstore – 172 Allen St, New York, NY $5 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds!

How do we gain empowerment through art? How can the arts be a form of activism? In the space [...]

The Distributive Family: How and Why to Deconstruct the Market/Family Distinction

The Distributive Family: How and Why to Deconstruct the Market/Family Distinction A Gallatin Distinguished Faculty Lecture by Janet Halley

Thursday, October 6th, 2011 6:30 p.m. Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place, New York NY 10003

Open to the public

Janet Halley is Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law [...]