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Czech Mates: When Shakespeare Met Kafka: Marjorie Garber @ NYU

a lecture by Marjorie Garber

February 21, Tuesday 6 to 7:30 pm

Marjorie Garber, English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

Hemmerdinger Hall 31 Washington Place

Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Her work ranges broadly across literary studies, [...]

Sex, Empire, and Literature in the Anglo-American World, 1700-2020: Henry Abelove and “The Gay Science”

a two-day conference with Henry Abelove, Rebecca Connor, Jasper Cragwall, Douglas Crimp, Lisa Duggan, Phil Harper, Neville Hoad, Allan Isaac, Janet Jakobsen, Michael Lucey, Steven Maynard, Tavia Nyong’o, Claire Potter, Daniel Rosenberg, Michael Roth, Todd Shepard, Marc Stein, Michael Trask, and Dorothy Wang

February 16 & 17, Thursday & Friday

For more information: abelove.wordpress.com

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Call for Proposals: Radically Gay: The Life & Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay

September 27-30, 2012, New York City

In celebration of the centennial of the birth of LGBT pioneer Harry Hay, CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies at CUNY) and the Harry Hay Centennial Committee invite proposals for a broad-reaching conference exploring key facets of LGBT life and their evolution over the last six [...]

The Ethnography of Black/Queer/Diaspora: Tracing Circuits of Desire

Presented by the CUNY Graduate Center Department of Anthropology

November 11, Friday 4:15 to 6:15 pm

Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Department of Anthropology and African American Studies, Yale University

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue Room C415A @ 34th Street NYC

For more info: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology/events.html

Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories

Presented by Rutgers-Newark and Newark Community Leaders

Come learn about Queer Newark and the people and organizations that have contributed to our city’s great history!

November 12, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm Essex Room, Robeson Campus Center 350 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Newark NJ 07102

Join us on November 12, 2011 to [...]

CFP: Queering Religion, Religious Queers

Intersecting Contradiction? Queering Religion, Religious Queers Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon (eds)

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Deadline for Abstracts: 06 January, 2012

This collection will consider how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity (Stein, 2001; Yip, 2005; Taylor, 2009). It asks how these intersections [...]

Kessler Conversations: Esther Newton, Gayle Rubin and Carole Vance

Presented by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

Moderated by Rebecca Jordan-Young

Tuesday October 25 7 to 9 pm

Proshanksy Auditorium CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue NYC

American cultural anthropologists Esther Newton, Gayle Rubin and Carole Vance join together in a public conversation. The Kessler Conversations aim to bring together past [...]

Queer/Palestinian: Critical Strategies in Palestinian Queer and Women’s Filmmaking

Presented by the Center for Media, Culture and History and the Center for Religion and Media

Friday, October 21 4 to 6 pm

The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies Screening Room 50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street NYC

How does a queer/Palestinian alliance tie a struggle for gender [...]

Seminars in the City: Queer Bloomsbury/Buggersbury

Presented by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Facilitated by Dr. Andrea Freud Loewenstein

Seminars will run Thursday Evenings on the following dates:

October 20th and 27th and November 3rd and 10th 7 to 9 pm

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue NYC

“How queer,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “to have so many selves.” [...]

REVIEW: From Irish Exile to Welsh Celebrity: The Queer Self-Fashioning of the Ladies of Llangollen: “In Your Own Persons, Where You Are”

From Irish Exile to Welsh Celebrity: The Queer Self-Fashioning of the Ladies of Llangollen: “In Your Own Persons, Where You Are” New York University, 5 October 2011

NYU’s Ireland House was the perfect setting for Fiona Brideoake’s talk, sponsored by the Irish Studies Program, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and [...]