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Where is Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later: An Exhibition and Symposium

WHERE IS ANA MENDIETA? ¿DÓNDE ESTA ANA MENDIETA?

25 Years Later: An Exhibition and Symposium

READ THE REVIEW! “Where is Ana Mendieta?”: A Revisitation of the Artist’s Life and Work

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Non-NYU affiliates please RSVP to PSLectures@gmail.com

September 8, 2010 marks 25 years since artist Ana Mendieta’s fatal fall, [...]

In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s — October 8-10 2010

In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s

Fall Festival October 8th 2010 – October 10th 2010

The 1970s was a period of intense excitement, change, activism, and activity for lesbians. As lesbian feminism redefined what qualified as a “political issue” and challenged every assumption about gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, [...]

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead conference

Women & Power 2010: Our Time to Lead

September 24–26, 2010

Join hundreds of women for a weekend of celebration and conversation guaranteed to wake up your inner leader and leave you brimming with renewed purpose. Omega’s annual Women & Power conference is one of the most celebrated women’s gatherings in the world, unique [...]

Call for Papers: 2010 Women & Society Conference

Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2010 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates [...]

Barbara Hammer: Performance/Reading/Signing

Presented by Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)

Wednesday, March 17 at 7pm

5 Washington Place, Room 101 (NYC)

Free Admission (but limited seating)

For more information, please call CLAGS at 212-817-1955 or visit them online.

HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and [...]

Bettina Aptheker @ NYU: Queering the History of the American Left: Who “Counts” as Radical?

February 4th, 5:00 – 7:00 PM 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl

Presented by the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University Spring 2009 SCA SPEAKER SERIES

Bettina Aptheker is Professor of Feminist Studies at UCLA and Spring 2010 Visiting Scholar, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

This presentation is based on [...]

“Queer Privates” @ UC Davis: CALL FOR PAPERS

2010 Queer Studies Graduate Symposium

University of California, Davis

Date: Friday, May 14

Keynote Speaker: Mel Chen, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley

Mel Chen’s research interests include queer and feminist theory, critical linguistics, contagion and contamination, critical animal studies, and the cultural politics of race, sexuality, ability, and immigration.

While [...]

Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes: CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies

Guest Editors: Noor Al-Qasimi and Adi Kuntsman

Call for Papers

Digital media and cybercultures have long been explored as fields of identity formation, cultural contestations, and political tensions. Digital mediascapes have also been of particular interest to scholars of gender and sexuality for their potential [...]

Call for Writers: Gender Across Borders

Gender Across Borders, a global feminist blog, is planning a series to run mid-December on Women, Art and War. The site is currently soliciting writers to contribute articles relating to this topic. If you enjoy writing and have a passion for the visual or performing arts as well as women’s studies, international politics or [...]

Between Psychoanalysis & Affect: A Public Feelings Project

A roundtable discussion with contributors.

November 19, Thursday 7:30 PM

NYU 721 Broadway Riese Student Lounge

Featuring: José Esteban Muñoz, Ann Pellegrini, Lisa Duggan, Patricia Clough, John Andrews, and Janet Jakobsen.

Presented by Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory and the NYU Department of Performance [...]