Snap!“Our bodies are also occupied territories. Perhaps the ultimate goal of performance, especially if you are a woman, gay or a person ‘of color,’ is to decolonize our bodies and make these decolonizing mechanisms apparent to our audience in the hope that they will get inspired to do the same with their own.”
-Guillermo Gómez-Peña
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Queer Cuba
the second in the series Globally Queer? – a panel discussion with Jafari Allen, José Muñoz, & José Quiroga
Thursday, February 7 6 to 8 pm
Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
Jafari Allen, Anthropology and African American Studies, Yale University “A Black/Queer Cuban: Here & There”
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a two-day conference with Henry Abelove, Rebecca Connor, Jasper Cragwall, Douglas Crimp, Lisa Duggan, Phil Harper, Neville Hoad, Allan Isaac, Janet Jakobsen, Michael Lucey, Steven Maynard, Tavia Nyong’o, Claire Potter, Daniel Rosenberg, Michael Roth, Todd Shepard, Marc Stein, Michael Trask, and Dorothy Wang
February 16 & 17, Thursday & Friday
For more information: abelove.wordpress.com
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From Irish Exile to Welsh Celebrity: The Queer Self-Fashioning of the Ladies of Llangollen: “In Your Own Persons, Where You Are” New York University, 5 October 2011
NYU’s Ireland House was the perfect setting for Fiona Brideoake’s talk, sponsored by the Irish Studies Program, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and [...]
Reparations and the Human: “Justice or Love” New York University, 28 September 2011
David Eng’s lecture—co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, and the Department of East Asian Studies—was a long time coming, having been originally scheduled for last fall, in celebration of his most recently [...]
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 Racial Genealogy of Excellence: “Excellence Is The Watchword” New York University, 14 September 2011
Roderick A. Ferguson kicked off the fall CSGS calendar of events with a chapter from his provocatively titled forthcoming volume, The Reorder Of Things: On The Institutionalization of Difference. Professor Ferguson contextualized this project in relation to his previous [...]
FROM IRISH EXILE TO WELSH CELEBRITY: THE QUEER SELF-FASHIONING OF THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN
a lecture by Fiona Brideoake
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October 5, Wednesday 7 to 8:30 pm
Fiona Brideoake, Literature, American University
Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby eloped together from Kilkenny in 1778. They settled in the [...]
REPARATIONS AND THE HUMAN
a lecture by David L. Eng
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September 28, Wednesday 6:30 to 8 pm
David L. Eng, English, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
This presentation explores the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation. Reparation is a key term in [...]
The American History Workshop @ NYU presents…
William P. Jones University of Wisconsin
“Gender, Jobs and Freedom: The March on Washington and the Birth of Black Feminism”
Friday, March 11th at 10 a.m.
NYU King Juan Carlos I, Room 428 53 Washington Square South NYC
Lunch will be served!
**The paper is pre-circulated—email khary.polk(at)gmail.com [...]
SEX IN AN EPIDEMIC
A screening and discussion with filmmaker Jean Carlomusto
a documentary by Jean Carlomusto 70 minutes, color, USA, 2010
December 8, Wednesday 6:30 to 8:30 pm
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This pioneering documentary explores the personal, political and structural challenges that have continually hampered the best efforts of HIV educators [...]
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