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 [...]
Spotlight: Empowerment Through Art! QPOC Artist Showcase & Roundtable
Thursday, October 6 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm Bluestockings Bookstore – 172 Allen St, New York, NY $5 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds!
How do we gain empowerment through art? How can the arts be a form of activism? In the space [...]
Call For Papers – Queering Paradigms IV
Character of the conference and contributions:
Following the success of the three international, interdisciplinary Queering Paradigms conferences held thus far on three continents, the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the Graduate Program in Social Memory at the [...]
FROM IRISH EXILE TO WELSH CELEBRITY: THE QUEER SELF-FASHIONING OF THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN
a lecture by Fiona Brideoake
Read a review of this talk!
October 5, Wednesday 7 to 8:30 pm
Fiona Brideoake, Literature, American University
Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby eloped together from Kilkenny in 1778. They settled in the [...]
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 [...]
Crying in Public, but Something Less Dramatic than That: Reflections on the Public Feelings Salon At Barnard College Barnard College, 12 April 2011
In collaboration with Barnard’s Center for Research on Women (BCRW), the Public Feelings Salon, featuring Lauren Berlant, José Muñoz, Tavia Nyong’o, and Ann Pellegrini, inaugurated BCRW’s new Salon series with a [...]
Tuesday, April 19 7 to 9 pm
The last Counterpublic Collective session of the spring season will look at pop artist Lady Gaga and hit TV show Glee through the relationship between capitalism and queer identity. Both Lady Gaga and Glee have been praised for their impact on and promotion of gay culture and [...]
PUBLIC FEELINGS SALON
a panel with Lauren Berlant, Lisa Duggan, Janet R. Jakobsen, José Muñoz, Tavia Nyong’o, and Ann Pellegrini
April 12, Tuesday 6:30 to 8:30 pm
READ THE REVIEW! Crying in Public, but Something Less Dramatic than That: Reflections on the Public Feelings Salon at Barnard College
For more information: http://www.barnard.edu/bcrw/events.htm#salon
CSGS is [...]
(M)OTHER SEACOLE’S WONDERFUL ADVENTURES: CLAIMING THE ENGLISH FAMILY IN THE CRIMEA
a Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Elahe Haschemi Yekani
April 4, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm
Elahe Haschemi Yekani, English and American Studies, Humboldt University Berlin
Situated at the interdisciplinary intersections of literary and cultural studies combining approaches from gender studies, postcolonial [...]
Revenge, the Queer and the ‘(neo-) Jacobean’
Katherine M. Graham, CSGS Visiting Scholar
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
The Great Room 19 University Place
*Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by Monday, March 7, 5 p.m. for this event through the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YGNKRP6
Katherine M. Graham is a Visiting [...]