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REVIEW: Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded: “Things Change A Lot”

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Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded: “Things Change A Lot” New York University, 27 October 2011

The screening and panel discussion of Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded, co-sponsored by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, reflected the importance of “reloading” an analysis of popular representations of Asian women. The [...]

REVIEW: Desire for the Other: “Together and Separately”

Desire for the Other: “Together and Separately” New York University, 4 November 2011

“Desire for the Other: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis In Conversation” was the latest in a series of collaborations between the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU’s Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the journal Studies in Gender [...]

Soft Power, Diplomacy, and Gender in the Middle East

Presented by Lysistrata

November 14, Monday 3:30 to 5:30pm

Woolworth Building Room 409

RSVP: lysistrata.nyu(at)gmail.com

About the Event:

What is the soft power of the Middle East; media, soccer, facebook, or diplomacy? Have the Obama slogans failed the ‘Arab Street’? What is the role of women in shaping the new Middle East? And what [...]

Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood

Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood

Tuesday, November 1st 2011:

Co-sponsored by CLAGS, the CUNY Center for the Humanities, and the NYPL

Join Thomas Glave (English, General Literature, and Rhetoric, SUNY Binghamton) for this year’s Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture. Thomas Glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, The Torturer’s Wife, and [...]

Justice in Transition: Serving the Transgender Community in Law and Practice

Justice in Transition: Serving the Transgender Community in Law and Practice Presented by NYU OUTLaw

November 4, Friday 9 am to 5:10 pm

This all-day event will focus on the legal and social challenges that face trans people, with a special focus on the intersection of trans identity with race, class, disability, and age.

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Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism

Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism Lysistrata International Law Event

Thursday, November 3 3:30 to 5:00 pm Woolworth Building, Room 217 15 Barclay Street NYC

RSVP to lysistrata.nyu(at)gmail.com

About the event:

Jayne Huckerby will highlight findings of a groundbreaking report published by NYU’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, “A Decade Lost: Locating Gender [...]

Call for Papers: 7th International Gender and Language Association Conference

Call for Papers: 7th International Gender and Language Association Conference IGALA 7 June 20-22, 2012 São Leopoldo, Brazil

http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2011

Chamada de Trabalhos: 7th International Gender and Language Association Conference IGALA 7 20-22 de Junho de 2012 São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil

http://www.unisinos.br/eventos/igala/

Prazo para submissão de resumos: 31 de [...]

Paisley Currah talk at the CUNY Graduate Center 10/20

Seminar in Sexuality and Gender

Thursday, October 20 · 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Paisley Currah works in the intersections of political theory, gender and sexuality studies, studies in law and society, LGBT studies, and transgender studies. He has widely written on the transgender rights movement.

His current work investigates state constructions of sex for the [...]

Desire for the Other: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory in Conversation

a roundtable on the new book With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories

Read a review of this talk!

November 4, Friday 4 to 6 pm

13-19 University Place (map) Lecture room 102 (please note room change) between 8th Street and Waverly Place

Panelists include:

contributing authors Orna Guralnik and Eyal Rozmarin

Ben Kafka, Media [...]

Captive Genders at Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC

Come celebrate the release of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press) Wednesday, October 26 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center 172 Allen Street New York, NY

A night of reading, discussion, and conspiring!

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled [...]