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The Politics and Poetics of Refugees

An Interdisciplinary Symposium at New York University

September 23 to 25, Thursday to Saturday times to be announced

Keynote lecture by Thomas Keenan

Other participants include Eliot Borenstein, David Campbell, Ilana Feldman, Sara M. Green, Nina Ha, Zenia Kish, Jana Lipman, Louisa Schein, April Shemak, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Celina Su, and Miriam Ticktin

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Sexual Nationalisms

Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Belonging in the New Europe

International Conference – 27 & 28 January 2011 – University of Amsterdam

Since 1989, and even more so after 9/11, the rise of new nationalisms has been inextricably linked to a refashioning of the politics, identities and imaginaries of gender and sexuality in [...]

Call for Papers: NYU’s Center for the United States and the Cold War

New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War invites New York metropolitan area based scholars to submit proposals to present at the Center’s seminar series. The Cold War seminar is a venue for work in progress. The seminar is interdisciplinary and international in scope. All papers are pre-circulated.

We are [...]

The Traffic in Policy: Religion, Sexuality, and the State

A symposium co-organized by NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality with funding by The Henry Luce Foundation

April 30, Friday 10 AM to 6 PM

Keynote lecture by Roberto J. Blancarte (Center of Sociological Studies, El Colegio de México).

Other confirmed participants include: Faye [...]

Critical Trans Politics and the Shortcomings of Law Reform

A lecture by Dean Spade

April 7, Wednesday 6 to 8 PM

Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law; Founder, Sylvia Rivera Law Project

As critical trans politics continues to emerge and develop, there is an increasingly vocal demand for trans political formations to center racial and economic justice and respond to crises facing [...]

Lauren Berlant @ NYU: After the Good Life, An Impasse: Notes on the Cinema of Precarity

April 8, Thursday 7 to 8:30 PM

Lauren Berlant, English, University of Chicago

“After the Good Life” works with two films of Laurent Cantet [Ressources humaines/Human Resources (1999) and L'Emploi du Temps/Time Out (2001)] to engage the new affective languages of the contemporary economic atmosphere across Europe: languages of anxiety, contingency, and precarity that [...]

Panel on Addressing Sexism in the LGBT Community and Beyond: Strategies for Envisioning an Inclusive Movement

Hosted by the Stonewall Democrats NYC in honor of Women’s History Month

Wednesday, March 24 8pm to 9pm

LGBTQ Community Center 208 West 13th Street between 7th Avenue and Greenwich Avenue NYC

Guest Speaker:

City Councilmember Margaret Chin

Panelists:

City Councilmember Rosie Mendez

Cathy Marino-Thomas, President of Marriage Equality

Meghan Huppuch, Girls for Gender [...]

In Love With Russia: U.S. Women, Sexual Revolution, and Revolutionary Tourism, 1905-1945

Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

5:00 to 6:30PM (with reception to follow)

The Tamiment Library is located at 70 Washington Square South, New York City (between LaGuardia and Green) 10th floor

For a copy of the paper or to RSVP please contact Zuzanna Kobrzyski

A Conversation with Queer Women in Public Service: A Panel Discussion

March 25, Thursday 7 to 9 PM

RSVP to ma123@nyu.edu

Margarita Lopez, Board Member of the New York City Housing Authority

Rosie Mendez, Member of the New York City Council from the 2nd District

Ann Northrop, journalist and activist, current co-host of TV news program Gay USA

Melissa Sklarz, first openly transgender public official [...]

Bettina Aptheker @ NYU: Queering the History of the American Left: Who “Counts” as Radical?

February 4th, 5:00 – 7:00 PM 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl

Presented by the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University Spring 2009 SCA SPEAKER SERIES

Bettina Aptheker is Professor of Feminist Studies at UCLA and Spring 2010 Visiting Scholar, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

This presentation is based on [...]