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Unhitched: Love, Marriage, & Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China

Robert — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:57:28 +0000

NYU Press invites you to a panel discussion and party celebrating the release of a new book by Judith Stacey

Thursday, March 31

Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
4th floor lounge, 20 Cooper Square, NYC

Author-Meets-Critics Panel Discussion, 5-6:30

Katha Pollitt, The Nation Michael Warner, Yale University

Harvey Molotch, NYU

Reception, 6:30

RSVP: Betsy Steve, betsy.steve(at)nyu.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of Sociology

All in the Family? An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kinship and Community

Robert — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:10:06 +0000

March 25th to 26th, 2010

Center for the Humanities
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street
NYC

For a full schedule and venues, please download the Program (PDF).

Have alternative forms of collectivity eclipsed the normative family? What are the problems and promises of new family formations? What is the business of families? How have technologies altered notions of reproduction, and in what ways is natality tied to forms of non/human association? Can househusbands be unhappy? What is responsible parenting? How does death reunite or reform kinship, personally or politically?

Join us for this provocative symposia with renowned scholars from a variety of fields: Carlos Ball (Law, Rutgers School of Law), Herman Bennett (History, the Graduate Center, CUNY), Kimiko Hahn (Creative Writing, Queens College), Lynne Huffer (Women’s Studies, Emory), Kathleen Gerson (Sociology, NYU), Cindi Katz (Environmental Psychology and Geography, the Graduate Center, CUNY), Nancy K. Miller (English, the Graduate Center, CUNY), Jennifer Morgan (Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU), Kelly Oliver (Philosophy, Vanderbilt), Gabriele Schwab (Comparative Literature, UC Irvine), and many others.

Organized by the 2010-2011 Resident Mellon Fellows, Alyson M. Cole, Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens College and the Graduate Center, and Kyoo Lee, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College. Co-sponsored by philoSOPHIA: A Feminist Society and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Who Cares About Family? Patricia Hill Collins, Joan Williams, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

Robert — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:03:58 +0000

Monday, November 16th
6:30 PM

The Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities at the CUNY Center for the Humanities

Despite radical changes in family formations, domestic labor still remains raced, gendered, and otherwise devalued. This panel brings together experts from various fields to examine not only who cares about the family, but who does not, who should, and why.

Our distinguished speakers will include Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland), author of Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment; Joan Williams (University of California at Hastings), author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It; and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Brown), author of The Force of Domesticity. Alyson Cole, Resident Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities and author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror, will moderate the conversation.

Rooms 9206-07
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005

http://www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

What’s Sex Got to Do with Family?

Robert — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:08:21 +0000

with Lisa Duggan, Elizabeth Grosz, Gayle Salamon

The Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities

Sex is both at the core and the edge of the family life. In an era when the conceptual and political transformation of the family is most palpable on a global scale, often generating impassioned debates among those wedded or even indifferent to “the family values,” this panel seeks to explore family formations through their deepest open secrets: sex, sexuality and sexual practices.

Panelists include:

Lisa Duggan, (NYU) author of The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy;

Elizabeth Grosz, (Rutgers) author of Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism;

Gayle Salamon, (Princeton) whose forthcoming book is titled Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality.

Kyoo Lee, Resident Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, will moderate the conversation.

Monday, October 5th, 6:30 pm

The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
Rooms C201-203

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat.

For more information, please call 212-817-2005 or visit www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org