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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 [...]

Call for Papers: ‘Fat Materialities: From Substance to Experience’

Edited by Christopher E. Forth, Alison Leitch, and Samantha Murray

In today’s world, where warnings of the ‘obesity epidemic’ are regular front-page news, it is impossible to escape the ways in which ‘fat’ is culturally constructed as a ‘problem’ – even a crisis. Too much of this substance is regularly cited as unhealthy and [...]

Session Proposals: Second Annual MOMENTUM Conference

March 30 to April 1, 2012 in Washington, DC.

The phenomenal growth of online communication has given rise to an amazing amount of sharing, learning and experimenting with different expressions of sexuality, relationships and feminism. MOMENTUM provides a safe place to listen, discuss and learn about sexualities and gender without the fear of reprisal [...]

masculinity, complex: Two-Day Symposium

MASCULINITY, COMPLEX

a two-day symposium with Jessica Benjamin, Justin Vivian Bond, Judith Butler, Anne Cheng, Nancy Chodorow, Ken Corbett, Muriel Dimen, Jan Gaboury, Katie Gentile, Virginia Goldner, Francisco Gonzalez, Adrienne Harris, Ben Kafka, Tony Kushner, Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Joe Rollins, Eyal Rozmarin, Avgi Saketopoulou, Gayle Salamon, Dean Spade, Warren Spielberg, Brett Stoudt

October 21 and [...]

Post a Call For Papers: 3R: Response, Re/Action, and Revolt

The Culture Club: Cultural Studies Scholar’s Organization at Bowling Green State University is pleased to announce the seventh annual Battleground States Conference. Battleground States is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at bringing together scholars, artists, and activists to present their work in an intellectually stimulating environment. The title for this year ‘s conference is 3R: [...]

The First Biennial of Issues in Critical Investigation(ICI): The African Diaspora at Vanderbilt University

ICI: African Diaspora 2011 Fall Symposium. Go to: www.vanderbilt.edu/ICI. Read & Register for symposium on “Symposium” page. Hotel: Embassy Suites Hotel (which is listed on the registration page).

Please join us for the first biennial of Issues in Critical Investigation(ICI): The African Diaspora at Vanderbilt University, 29 September-1 October 2011.

For the past decade, [...]

Rutgers University Presents: “Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories”

Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories

Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:00am-5:00pm Essex Room, 231/232 Paul Robeson Campus Center Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers-Newark has partnered with community leaders to present “Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories,” a free, full-day, oral history conference examining gay life in Newark. On November 12, 2011, three generations of gay, lesbian, bisexual, [...]

“A Diva’s War: Marlene Dietrich’s military glamour” Talk by Prof. Bronfen

Please join the NYU Department of German for

A Diva’s War: Marlene Dietrich’s military glamour Elisabeth Bronfen (U. Zurich) September 15th at 6:30pm Great Room, 1st floor of 19 University Place

REVIEW: New Majorities II: A Cross-Country Duet on the State of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Academy

New Majorities II: A Cross-Country Duet on the State of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Academy New York University, 29 April 2011

New Majorities II had a double task: First, the day-long forum continued an initiative launched at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW), and co-conceived by CSW director Kathleen [...]

New Majorities II: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies

The NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) have undertaken a joint project to address the challenges currently facing the fields of gender and sexuality studies, women’s studies, LGBT studies, ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies.

April 29, Friday

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