Thursday, November 5, 2009
A roundtable presented by the South Asia Association
Co-sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian International and Public Affairs Association; and the South Asia Institute.
A panel disussion with Myna Mukherjee, Vivek Divan, Dr. Viraj Patel and Prashant Iyengar on the recent ruling on Indian Penal Code 377 that decriminalized homosexuality.
Moderated by Aseem Chhabra. Supported [...]
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 [...]
Judith Jack Halberstam
October 19
6 –8 pm
NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
In Sasha Baron Cohen’s most recent camp spoof, Brüno, the very gay and very swish Austrian fashionista compares himself several times to Hitler and jokes that he is “the second most misunderstood Austrian in history.” The intersection of Nazi and [...]