Snap!“The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.”
-Angela Davis
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Performing (at) the Body’s Edge: “This Is Just Like Life” New York University, 15 November 2011
The fall CSGS calendar of evening events ended on an amazing note, with a conversation between Shelley Jackson and Rebecca Schneider, hosted by CSGS and NYU’s Department of Performance Studies. Jackson and Schneider, whose books include The Melancholy [...]
a conversation with Shelley Jackson and Rebecca Schneider
Read a review of this talk!
November 15, Tuesday 7 to 8:30 pm
Shelley Jackson, writer and artist
Rebecca Schneider, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University
The question of the body — the body as question – is a recurring motif in the work [...]
New Majorities II: A Cross-Country Duet on the State of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Academy New York University, 29 April 2011
New Majorities II had a double task: First, the day-long forum continued an initiative launched at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW), and co-conceived by CSW director Kathleen [...]
April 29, Friday 7 to 8:30 pm: Gender and Sexuality: a Musical Revue!
The day’s conversation will be followed by an early evening performance party — with music and queer burlesque highlights! — to celebrate the 11th anniversary of CSGS. Producer Viva DeConcini is rounding up a bevy of special guest stars, so put [...]
THE REALITY SHOWS
a conversation with Karen Finley
April 6, Wednesday 6:30 to 8 pm
READ THE REVIEW! Reclaiming Hysteria in The Reality Shows: A Conversation with Karen Finley and Ann Pellegrini
Karen Finley, Art and Public Policy, NYU
Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies & Religious Studies, NYU
The Reality Shows collects a decade’s [...]
FEMINIST AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTIONS: PERFORMING THE SELF ON STAGE AND ON THE PAGE
a book talk with Barbara Browning, Linda Schlossberg, & Alina Troyano (aka Carmelita Tropicana)
February 22, Tuesday 7 to 8:30 pm
Barbara Browning, Performance Studies, NYU author of The Correspondence Artist
Linda Schlossberg, Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University author of Life [...]
Living Out Loud: Men of color creating HIV awareness through their stories, art, & activism
Presented by NYU’s Office of LGBT Student Services Storytelling and Performance Series/Multiple Identity Speaker Series
November 29, Monday 6 to 8 pm
Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center 50 West 4th Street
To see the Facebook Invite: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171571102869379
Join NYU’s [...]
QUEER RICAN PERFORMANCE
an evening with Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora
November 15, Monday 6 to 8 pm
NYU Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South Room 802
Presented by the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services’ Storytelling and Performance Series
For more information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157347347637869
Join Puerto Rican performers Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez [...]
Queer Rican Performance:An evening With Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora
Monday, November 15 6 to 8 pm
NYU Kimmel Center, Room 802 60 Washington Square South
For more information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157347347637869
Join Puerto Rican performers Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora as they celebrate Trans Awareness Week and Latino Heritage Month at NYU!
Dancer [...]
Presented by the CUNY Center for the Humanities; co-sponsored by the Poetics Group
Tuesday, October 5 6:30pm
For more information: http://www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/
In anticipation of the centenary celebrations of Bishop’s birth in 1911 and in connection with the upcoming publication of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence (forthcoming in 2011 by [...]
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