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UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010: Call for Papers

Friday and Saturday, October 8-9, 2010, Royce Hall

University of California – Los Angeles

This year’s UCLA QUEER Studies Conference welcomes talks or pre-planned panels dealing with any of the following diverse topics/questions/concerns:

Queering trans-nationalism; queer & trans-nationalism
Queer Globalization: On cultural and/or economic exchanges
Queer politics and theories of migrations
Queer translations: How “to do queer studies” [...]

“Spanking and Poetry”: An Exhibition & Conference on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

February 25-26, 2010

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City

Visit the “Spanking and Poetry” website for more info.

Spaces of Exception: Violence, Technology and the Transgressive Gendered Body in the Indian Call Center Industry

Radha Hegde
Media, Culture and Communication
NYU Steinhardt School of Education

Dec 2, 2009
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Institute for Public Knowledge
20 Cooper Square
5th Floor Main Conference Room

With India being drawn into global marketplace as the high-tech solution center for business problems and operations, new types of labor demands and work environments  have surfaced. The growing influence [...]

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 human [...]

Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impact of Small Arms and Light Weapons

Thursday, November 12, 2009
1:15pm to 2:30pm

Conference Room 7
UN Headquarters
New York, New York

For more information, visit the ONY-UNU website.

United Nations University/Office at the United Nations is holding a Book Launch to discuss issues raised in Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Every day, small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill and [...]

The Woman with Worn-out Shoes: Gender and Homelessness in the Great Depression

A lecture by ELAINE ABELSON
Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies, Eugene Lang College; Senior Lecturer in History Studies, NSSR

November 11, Wednesday
4 to 6 PM

Presented by The New School Gender Studies Program Fall 2009 Lecture Series

80 Fifth Avenue at 14th St., Room 802

This event is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.

Wayward Lives and the Motion of History

A Distinguished Faculty Lecture by Saidiya Hartman

Presented by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Humanities Initiative at New York University

29 October, 5:30pm

Humanities Initiative
20 Cooper Square
Fifth floor

More Information: nd35@nyu.edu

Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She received her PhD. from Yale University (1992) and [...]

Martin Wong: Exploration in Race and Masculinity in Graffiti Culture

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
6 to 8 PM

Presented by the A/P/A Institute at NYU

A/P/A Institute at NYU
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor Gallery
between University Place and Broadway

Free and open to the public.

RSVP by Friday, October 30 — Online, via email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or call 212-992-9653.

Panelists:

Lady Pink
Sharp
Yasmin Ramirez

Moderated by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé

Artist Martin Wong was a major collector of [...]

Downtown Now: Jibz Cameron & K8 Hardy @ NYU

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 7-8:30PM

NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the first event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum

Jibz Cameron is a musician and performance artist, known for her one-woman performance persona Dynasty Handbag. She is currently a visiting lecturer in Performance Studies.

K8 Hardy is a video and performance artist and is one of [...]

Before Sex: One Day Conference at Rutgers University

October 23, 2009
8:30 AM to 6 PM

Teleconference Room
4th floor of Alexander Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Until recently we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as socio-intellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. But over the past three decades, evidence and arguments have accumulated to suggest that the categories of oppositional gender [...]