Friday, November 11 5 pm David Konstan (New York University) will examine “Beauty and Desire, or When did Aesthetics Go Astray?”

Keynotes: Peter Brooks and David Konstan

The concept of desire has been the subject of much examination throughout centuries [...]]]> November 10, Thursday
6:30 pm
Peter Brooks (Princeton University) discusses “Desire at the End.”

Friday, November 11
5 pm
David Konstan (New York University) will examine “Beauty and Desire, or When did Aesthetics Go Astray?”

Keynotes: Peter Brooks and David Konstan

The concept of desire has been the subject of much examination throughout centuries of literature. From the ancient Greek idea of eros to psychological analysis of the subject through contemporary negotiations of love and desire, the interpretation of desire has evolved, but it has always held a central role in literature and discourse.

For full list of papers and conference details, visit: http://gcdesireconference.wordpress.com/

Co-Sponsored by The Comparative Literature Department, Writer’s Institute, and The Doctoral Student’s Council

Papers should be 15 minutes in [...]]]> Abstracts are invited for a panel investigating the portrayal of domestic violence in drama of any nationality or period. Sponsored by the academic journal Comparative Drama, this panel will be held at the 36th Comparative Drama Conference, hosted by Stevenson University in Baltimore, MD, March 29-31, 2012.

Papers should be 15 minutes in length and accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience. Scholars are invited to email a 250-word abstract to Dr. Anthony Ellis at comparative-drama(at)wmich.edu by 28 November 2011. (Please note: the journal Comparative Drama is a separate entity from the Comparative Drama Conference.)

Please include paper title, author’s name, status (faculty, graduate student, other/scholar-at-large), institutional affiliation, and postal address at top left. Also include any technical requirements for your presentation. Those whose abstracts are accepted for presentation are expected to attend the conference.  Abstracts will be printed in the conference program. ]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/10/cfp-drama-and-domestic-violence/feed/ 0 http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/10/lgbt-health-policy-and-hiv-policy-under-obama-biden/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/10/lgbt-health-policy-and-hiv-policy-under-obama-biden/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:37:27 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3333 The Obama-Biden Administration has launched an array of groundbreaking initiatives that will have a profound impact on LGBT health. These include the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the Institute of Medicine report on LGBT health, the National Prevention Strategy (as part of ACA), and technical guidance from the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator on HIV prevention with men who have sex with men in Africa and the Caribbean. How do these initiatives connect to one another, and what are their prospects for success in this time of fiscal austerity and political reaction? What other political opportunities exist to advance LGBT equality, for example through the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act?

Sean Cahill, PhD
Wagner School of Public Administration, NYU
Fenway Institute, Boston

Monday November 7
12:30 pm

NYU Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South, Room 602
NYC

Lunch provided. Presented by the LGBTQ Student Center at NYU. ]]> http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/10/lgbt-health-policy-and-hiv-policy-under-obama-biden/feed/ 0 http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/10/3284/ http://www.csgsnyu.org/2011/10/3284/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:40:55 +0000 djm489 http://www.csgsnyu.org/?p=3284 Please register at http://tinyurl.com/3tpqrsh. Please know that individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations including, but not limited to sign, language interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, [...]]]>

Please register at http://tinyurl.com/3tpqrsh. Please know that individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations including, but not limited to sign, language interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, keller@tc.edu, or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at (212) 678-3853 V/TTY, jaech(at)tc.edu.

Reception to follow The New School 66 5th Avenue, Ground Floor Kellen Auditorium

As the LGBT rights movement has grown in Africa, many governments have strengthened their laws condemning homosexuality. Certain African media, religious, and political figures have denounced homosexuality as a Western import.

How do Western organizations [...]]]> Thursday, October 6, 2011
6:00 pm

Reception to follow
The New School
66 5th Avenue, Ground Floor
Kellen Auditorium

As the LGBT rights movement has grown in Africa, many governments have strengthened their laws condemning homosexuality. Certain African media, religious, and political figures have denounced homosexuality as a Western import.

How do Western organizations engaging African LGBT issues fit into this perilous context? What are their major accomplishments and what kinds of obstacles do they encounter? How have they prevailed against hostility? What approaches hold the most potential for overcoming homophobia in Africa? Coming Out in the Developing World: Overcoming Homophobia in Africa will bring together panelists from prominent international organizations working on LGBT rights to explore this very important and pressing topic.

Moderated by Travis Ferland, MA Candidate in International Affairs, The New School.

This is the first event in the 2011-2012 Coming Out in the Developing World lecture and discussion series which is dedicated to exploring the various issues that arise for individuals coming out in developing countries. The series is coordinated by the Global Studies Program and aims to highlight the situation of LGBT individuals in developing nations by providing a forum for discussing issues related to identity, activism and coming out. Upcoming fall events will focus on the Defense of Marriage Act and binational relationships in the United States and the Palestinian lesbian and gay rights movement.

Presented by Project Africa and Global Studies at The New School for Public Engagement

RSVP and invite friends through our Facebook event page – http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=153616658058874

For more information about Project Africa, please visit http://www.projectafrica.info

Queer Theory Workshop: Queer Morphologies Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 4:20 p.m., Case Lounge (Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street, 7th floor)

Transcendent Homosexuals and Dangerous Sex Offenders: Sexual Harm and Freedom in [...]]]> The Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality Law and Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender cordially invite you to:

Queer Theory Workshop: Queer Morphologies
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 4:20 p.m., Case Lounge
(Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street, 7th floor)

Transcendent Homosexuals and Dangerous Sex Offenders: Sexual Harm and Freedom in the Judicial Imaginary
Joseph Fischel
Political Science, University of Chicago
Commentator: Beck Young, Women’s Studies, Barnard

Please read the paper in advance: Hard copies of the paper will be available outside Room 600.2 (west wing corridor) of Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School. The paper is also available for download here: http://www.law.columbia.edu/null/download?&exclusive=filemgr.download&file_id=542100.

For more information, please visit: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/gendersexuality/colloquium

The Queer Theory Workshop at Columbia Law School together with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender will run a workshop/lecture series in the spring of 2011 reflecting on the current state of Queer Theory. Queer Theory emerged as a way of thinking about the social and cultural condition that cut diagonally across Feminist, Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies, which quickly proliferated into a series of theoretically and disciplinarily inflected approaches. This lecture series asks what conceptual, topical, and rhetorical forms have emerged over the last decade–and why these? What is the history of present *queer* approaches to social, political and cultural life, and what might be their legacies? We are particularly interested in reflections on Queer Theory’s contemporary focus on affect, friendship, intimacy, and kinship and the rhetorical forms these seem to demand or solicit, particularly in light of the prominence of marriage debates in the West, the emergence of Islamaphobia in the North, and portraits of sexual colonialism in the South.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Katherine Franke and Suzanne Goldberg
Co-Directors
Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality Law

Save the Dates:

March 29
Why Are the Drag Queens Laughing
David Halperin
English, University of Michigan

April 12
Queer Theory, Queer Children, and Kid Orientalism: The Sexual Child in a Racialized World
Kathryn Stockton
English, University of Utah
Center for Gender & Sexuality Law

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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

Gender, Politics and Heteronormativity in Croatia Today: A panel for the Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Speakers:

Vesna Kesic, Croatian feminist activist, journalist, researcher, “Activism and culture as [...]]]> New York University Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Network of East-West Women presents:

Gender, Politics and Heteronormativity in Croatia Today: A panel for the Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Speakers:

Vesna Kesic, Croatian feminist activist, journalist, researcher, “Activism and culture as spaces of resistance, provocation and integration”

Gordan Bosanac, The Centre for Peace Studies and The Center for LGBT Equality, “Queer Croatia – rights, politics and culture”

Zvonimir Dobrović, Director and producer of Queer Zagreb and Perforations Festival, “Decentralizing queer art”

March 18, Friday 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
New York University
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
(between Waverly and Washington Place)

For more information, follow us at
http://gendertransformationeurope.wordpress.com/.

TRANS: GENDER IN FREE FALL

Trans genders may be uncommon, but gender variance itself is not rare. Indeed, whatever conditions create gender as an either/or binary, also create its many complications and multipliers. By understanding the psychic action of trans, the exception, we can uncover [...]]]> SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 8:00 PM

TRANS: GENDER IN FREE FALL

Trans genders may be uncommon, but gender variance itself is not rare. Indeed, whatever conditions create gender as an either/or binary, also create its many complications and multipliers. By understanding the psychic action of trans, the exception, we can uncover the workings of binary gender, the rule.

To experience gender as permanently unsettled, to deploy gender categories as consciously provisional, to know as fact that gender is socially constructed, and to live it as personally assembled, this is something new under the sun.

Virginia Goldner, Ph.D. is the Founding Editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is on the faculty of the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and was, for two terms, on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the co-Editor of two books, Gender in Psychoanalytic Space with Muriel Dimen (Other Press; 2002), and Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims, with Mary Gail Frawley O’Dea (Routledge; 2007). She has received awards for her Distinguished Contributions to psychoanalysis by Division 39 of the APA (2007), and to family therapy by the American Family Therapy Academy (1996). She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and is completing work on a collection of her major papers. Dr. Goldner is in private practice in New York City.

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Scientific Meetings Committee:
Giselle Galdi, PhD, Chair; Riva Tait, PhD, Vice-Chair;
Diane Friedman, PhD; Arthur Lynch, DSW & Kenneth Winarick, PhD