Islamic Philosophy and Manners of Unfolding in Documentary Cinema A distinguished lecture by LAURA MARKS (Simon Fraser University)

Introduced by FAYE GINSBURG (NYU) Friday, October 14th, 4-6PM NYU Hagop Kevorkian Screening Room 50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street

Thursday October 6- 7pm 721 Broadway, 6th floor Room 612

Presented by NYU Cinema Studies and the Performance Studies Lecture Series

This talk examines the flickering interchange between stasis and movement in Warhol’s 1966 expanded media projects Up Tight and the Velvet Underground and the [...]]]> STROBOSCOPIC: Andy Warhol’s Up Tight and Exploding Plastic Inevitable

Thursday October 6- 7pm
721 Broadway, 6th floor
Room 612

Presented by NYU Cinema Studies and the Performance Studies Lecture Series

This talk examines the flickering interchange between stasis and movement in Warhol’s 1966 expanded media projects Up Tight and the Velvet Underground and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Critics have noted this dialectic’s importance in Warhol’s oeuvre; here, Homay King reads it as part of an ongoing struggle on Warhol’s part to restore vitality to frozen images. The mortified quality of Warhol’s silkscreens — particularly visible in the Death and Disaster series — is offset by the vital energy and morphing forms of the time-based works. Warhol’s turn to film, sound, and live performance could be said to reanimate deadlocked icons and to gesture toward forms of movement and expanded possibility. These forms are found in abundance in Danny Williams’ lighting designs for the EPI, in particular in the use of strobe lights, which complements Warhol’s use of strobe cuts in the films he produced during this era.

Homay King is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College and Director of the Program in Film Studies. She is the author of “Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier” (Duke UP, 2010). She is currently working on a book about digital media and the virtual.

FREE & open to the public.

Please note that seating is limited and available on a first-come first-serve basis.

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On April 8-9, 2011 CUNY will be hosting an International Conference on Body Image and Identity at The Graduate Center (34th St. and 5th Ave.) This two-day event will feature scholars from around the world, and one strand in French will be presented by colleagues [...]]]> International Conference on Body Image and Identity: April 8-9

On April 8-9, 2011 CUNY will be hosting an International Conference on Body Image and Identity at The Graduate Center (34th St. and 5th Ave.) This two-day event will feature scholars from around the world, and one strand in French will be presented by colleagues from the University of Paris Diderot.

One featured presenter is an artist in recovery from the Living Museum. This will be an interesting conference attended by a diverse mix of professors, students, mental health practitioners and disability advocates.

The program, registration and other information is online at:
http://www.cuny.edu/academics/programs/resources/BodyImage.html

All CUNY students can attend for FREE so if any of you are still attending a CUNY school, the registration is free and open to you.

Registration fees are very low cost to encourage a diverse group of attendees:
Through February 28 – $55
Through March 31 – $65
After March 31, on-line registration is closed. On-site registration fee is $75.

Registration will include conference breakfast, tote bags, etc. Tickets may also be purchased for a Friday evening reception at the American Folk Art Museum.

www.cuny.edu/bodyimage

February 9, Wednesday 6:30 to 8 pm

Gayle M. Salamon, English, Princeton

This talk focuses on Lawrence King, the gender transgressive and gay 15-year-old who was shot to death by a classmate in his Oxnard, California middle school in 2008. Professor [...]]]> READING LAWRENCE KING, RE-READING RODNEY KING

a lecture by Gayle M. Salamon

February 9, Wednesday
6:30 to 8 pm

Gayle M. Salamon, English, Princeton

This talk focuses on Lawrence King, the gender transgressive and gay 15-year-old who was shot to death by a classmate in his Oxnard, California middle school in 2008. Professor Salamon will discuss the ways in which aggressivity is simultaneously attributed to and directed toward queer and gender nonconforming youth, and will consider the place of race in media accounts of the murder through a revisitation of the Rodney King case.

Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
Bowery @ East 5th Street

Gayle Salamon received a Ph.D. in rhetoric from the University of California-Berkeley, where she wrote her dissertation on “Assuming a Body: Transgenderism and Rhetorics of Materiality.” She has held a research fellowship at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and has taught a broad spectrum of courses at UC-Berkeley on the topics of embodiment and gender. Her new research project at Princeton will explore the role that proprioception and chronic pain can play in shaping a bodily sense of self. Her teaching this year will include courses on themes of “passing” in modern literature, and transgender theory. Salamon holds the new LGBT Studies Fellowship, funded by an endowment from the Fund for Reunion, the bisexual, transgendered, gay and lesbian alumni association of Princeton.

Organized by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; co-sponsored by the NYU Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and by Pride in Practice, a student group of the NYU Silver School of Social Work.

This event is free and open to the public.  Venue is wheelchair accessible.  If you need sign language interpretation services or other accommodations, please let us know as soon as possible.

For more information, please call 212-992-9540 or email csgs(at)nyu.edu.

Join Cheryl Clarke, the author of four books of poetry, and of, most recently, After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement, for the second annual Lorde/Hemphill lecture. This lecture is meant to commemorate the lives of the American poets Audre Lorde (1934 -1992) and [...]]]> The Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture: Cheryl Clarke

Join Cheryl Clarke, the author of four books of poetry, and of, most recently, After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement, for the second annual Lorde/Hemphill lecture. This lecture is meant to commemorate the lives of the American poets Audre Lorde (1934 -1992) and Essex Hemphill (1957 -1995), as well as to encourage exciting scholarship and literary production within the communities to whom their poetry and prose spoke. Both Lorde and Hemphill were instrumental in the development of distinctive forms of writing among American poets, particularly people of color and members of the LGBT community. Films featuring Essex Hemphill and his poetry will be shown at Anthology Film Archives on November 9th. For more information, see http://anthologyfilmarchives.org.

Lecture sponsored by the Africana Studies Concentration and co-sponsored by IRADAC and the PhD Program in English and the Black, Gay and Lesbian Archive Project, Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Monday, November 8th, 6:00pm
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th )
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005

www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

The Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture with Lisa Lowe Thursday, 11/4, 6:30 pm James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall Barnard College 3009 Broadway (at 117th Street)

Historians characterize the early nineteenth-century arrival of Chinese “coolies” to the Americas as “the transition from slavery to free labor,” in which the [...]]]> Intimacies Deferred: Genealogies of Freedom

The Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture with Lisa Lowe
Thursday, 11/4, 6:30 pm
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Barnard College
3009 Broadway (at 117th Street)

Historians characterize the early nineteenth-century arrival of Chinese “coolies” to the Americas as “the transition from slavery to free labor,” in which the abolition of slavery and the introduction of indentured labor comprised the conditions for the emergence of liberal political reason, connecting the rise of bourgeois political economic institutions in Europe and North America to plantations in the Atlantic and the Pacific. In this lecture, Lisa Lowe, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego, will explore the 1840s-50s as a period of the ascendancy of “free trade,” the rubric under which Britain and the U.S. sought to “open” Chinese ports, observing that the “coolie” not only figured a new division of labor, but became a sign of the shift from colonial mercantilism to a new international trade in manufactured goods.

Lisa Lowe teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She studied European intellectual history at Stanford, and French literature and critical theory at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests are French, British, and U.S. literatures, and the topic of Asian migration within European and American modernities. She has published books on orientalism, immigration, and culture within globalization.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw or call (212) 854-2067.

Lucy Trainor
Program Manager
Barnard Center for Research on Women

Phone: (212) 854-2067
Fax: (212) 854-8294
http://www.barnard.edu/bcrw

For more [...]]]> This series of talks by and about major contemporary poets, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace) and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic manifesto, poetic practice, and pedagogy. Visit http://tendenciespoetics.com for commentary and sample recordings from past events, as well as news about upcoming events.

For more information: http://tendenciespoetics.com/

Monday, November 29th, 7:00pm
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat.

212-817-2005

NeuroCulture Lecture Series Elizabeth Wilson, Women’s Studies, Emory University October 15, 2010 4:00 – 6:00 pm Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue (34th Street) Room 9204/9205

Elizabeth Wilson, Professor of Women’s Studies [...]]]> The Future of Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Presented by the CUNY Center for the Study of Women and Society and Women’s Studies Certificate Program

NeuroCulture Lecture Series
Elizabeth Wilson, Women’s Studies, Emory University
October 15, 2010
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (34th Street)
Room 9204/9205

Elizabeth Wilson, Professor of Women’s Studies at Emory University, is author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition, Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, and Affect and Artificial Intelligence. Jonathan Metzl, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, will serve as discussant.

Co-Sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in Psychology and Center for the Humanities

Free and open to the public.

For more information: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/details_landing.asp?EventId=28659

Saba Mahmood Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, the University of California, Berkeley Joan Scott Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study Linda Gordon Professor of History, New York University

Part of the The Demands of Tolerance lecture series of [...]]]> Wednesday, October 6
6:30 to 8 pm
19 Washington Square North, Events Space

Saba Mahmood Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, the University of California, Berkeley
Joan Scott Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Linda Gordon Professor of History, New York University

Part of the The Demands of Tolerance lecture series of NYU Abu Dhabi

Tolerance is a demanding social project, as the strident, often violent claims of intolerance make clear. This year-long lecture series probes the complexities and modalities of tolerance, not solely as a matter of individual virtue but as a social and political challenge. The lectures explore the limits and demands of tolerance when under pressure by fervently held religious, sexual, social, and political beliefs. Following the 2009-10 series on the Cosmopolitan Idea, this program continues our investigation of core values of NYUAD, which is forging an unusually diverse community based on intercultural understanding and respect.

To attend, please RVSP to 19wsn.rsvp(at)nyu.edu

For more information: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/news.events/nyc.Tolerance.Conflict.2010-11.html

David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania

This talk is drawn from David L. Eng’s recent book [...]]]> THE FEELING OF KINSHIP:
QUEER LIBERALISM AND THE RACIALIZATION OF INTIMACY

A lecture by David L. Eng

This talk has been CANCELED — we will reschedule for the fall 2011 semester — we apologize for the inconvenience.

David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania

This talk is drawn from David L. Eng’s recent book The Feeling of Kinship. In that project, Eng investigates the emergence of “queer liberalism,” the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our “colorblind” age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark legal decision overturning Texas’s antisodomy statute, Eng reveals how the ghosts of miscegenation haunt both Lawrence and the advent of queer liberalism.

Eng develops the concept of “queer diasporas” as a critical response to queer liberalism. A methodology drawing attention to new forms of family and kinship, accounts of subjects and subjectivities, and relations of affect and desire, the concept differs from the traditional notions of diaspora, theories of the nation-state, and principles of neoliberal capitalism upon which queer liberalism thrives. Eng analyzes films, documentaries, and literature by Asian and Asian American artists including Wong Kar-wai, Monique Truong, Deann Borshay Liem, and Rea Tajiri, as well as a psychoanalytic case history of a transnational adoptee from Korea. In so doing, he demonstrates how queer Asian migrant labor, transnational adoption from Asia, and the political and psychic legacies of Japanese internment underwrite narratives of racial forgetting and queer freedom in the present. A focus on queer diasporas also highlights the need for a poststructuralist account of family and kinship, one offering psychic alternatives to Oedipal paradigms.

David L. Eng is Professor in the Department of English, the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America and co-editor of Loss: The Politics of Mourning, Q&A: Queer in Asian America, and a special issue of Social Text, “What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now?”

Organized by CSGS; co-sponsored by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute and the Department of Performance Studies.

This event is free and open to the public.  Venue is wheelchair accessible but please call in advance to gain access.  If you need sign language interpretation services or other accommodations, please let us know as soon as possible at 212-992-9540.