Snap!“In effect, we live in a legal, social, and institutional world where the only relations possible are extremely few, extremely simplified, and extremely poor. There is, of course, the relation of marriage, and the relations of family, but how many other relations should exist…!”
-Michel Foucault
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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 [...]
Sexual Politics, Sexual Violence, and the Communist Left: “Complexities and Contradictions” New York University, 19 September 2011
Bettina Aptheker’s engaging talk “Sexual Politics, Sexual Violence, and the Communist Left,” organized by NYU’s Department of Teaching and Learning and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), showcased both her incredible [...]
The Feminist Wire!
Please check out, read, share, follow and contribute to The Feminist Wire, a new online journal co-founded by Hortense Spillers and Tamura Lomax.
http://www.thefeministwire.com/
The work and mission of The Feminist Wire is to provide a socio-political and cultural critique of anti-feminist opinions, practices, orientations, etc., that block or limit the [...]
Call for Papers and Panels
Activism and the Academy: A Barnard Center for Research on Women Anniversary Conference Celebrating 40 Years of Social Justice Work
September 23-24, 2011 Barnard College
Confirmed speakers: Sonia Alvarez, Lisa Duggan, Jacqueline Ebanks, Amber Hollibaugh, Ana Oliveira, Ann Pellegrini, and Ai-jen Poo.
Forty years ago, the Barnard Center for [...]
The Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender presents FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS with:
REBECCA JORDAN-YOUNG Women’s Studies, Barnard
“Sexual Logics: Dissecting Some Links Between Bodies and Desires in Current Sexual Science” with comment from Alondra Nelson, Sociology, Columbia
Monday, March 28th 4:10-6pm 754 Schermerhorn Extension (1200 Amsterdam Avenue) Columbia University
We hope to [...]
March 22nd and March 24th
Fresh from the revolution in Tahrir Square, Dr. El Saadawi will discuss the current political developments in Egypt and her life as a writer, physician, feminist, and human rights activist.
Creativity, Dissidence & Women: A Multidisciplinary Conference
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South [...]
FEMINIST AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTIONS: PERFORMING THE SELF ON STAGE AND ON THE PAGE
a book talk with Barbara Browning, Linda Schlossberg, & Alina Troyano (aka Carmelita Tropicana)
February 22, Tuesday 7 to 8:30 pm
Barbara Browning, Performance Studies, NYU author of The Correspondence Artist
Linda Schlossberg, Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University author of Life [...]
“Where is Ana Mendieta?”: A Revisitation of the Artist’s Life and Work New York University, 7 October 2010
A capacity crowd, their bodies packed against each other in the Studio at the Department of Performance Studies, came out on October 7th for a symposium on the work and legacy of the Cuban-American artist Ana [...]
Experience, Echo, Event: Theorizing Feminist Histories
For more information: http://www.stonybrook.edu/hisb/index.shtml
A Symposium featuring: Event, Excess, Abyss Tani Barlow T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Asian History Director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies Rice University “Flyers Into the Unknown”: Gender, History, and Psychoanalysis Joan W. Scott Harold F. Linder Professor, School of Social [...]
Thursday, October 14 6:30 pm James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall Barnard College 3009 Broadway (at 117th Street)
A multimedia event showcasing how contemporary feminists are resisting and creating alternatives not only to gender-based oppression but also to a collapsing economic system, the climate crisis, and more. Featuring live readings, performances, and video works [...]
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