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“Spanking and Poetry”: An Exhibition & Conference on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

February 25-26, 2010

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York City

Visit the “Spanking and Poetry” website for more info.

Historicizing Erotohistoriography: A Lecture by Elizabeth Freeman

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE FOR SOMETIME NEXT YEAR.

Elizabeth Freeman, English, UC Davis

Developmentalist accounts of psychological and bodily becoming plot the “growth” and “maturation” of both individual subjects and populations in ways that reduce what counts as a viable social formation or a livable life. Taking issue with [...]

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 [...]

Cruising Utopia: Book Talk and Cocktail Party for José E. Muñoz

February 5, Friday

THIS EVENT IS AT FULL CAPACITY.  NO MORE RSVPs WILL BE TAKEN.  WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

MC: Nao Bustamante

Panelists include:

Barbara Browning, Performance Studies, NYU

Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Gayatri Gopinath, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Ricardo L. Ortíz, American Studies, Georgetown College

Performers: Dynasty Handbag [...]

“Queer Privates” @ UC Davis: CALL FOR PAPERS

2010 Queer Studies Graduate Symposium

University of California, Davis

Date: Friday, May 14

Keynote Speaker: Mel Chen, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley

Mel Chen’s research interests include queer and feminist theory, critical linguistics, contagion and contamination, critical animal studies, and the cultural politics of race, sexuality, ability, and immigration.

While [...]

Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes: CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies

Guest Editors: Noor Al-Qasimi and Adi Kuntsman

Call for Papers

Digital media and cybercultures have long been explored as fields of identity formation, cultural contestations, and political tensions. Digital mediascapes have also been of particular interest to scholars of gender and sexuality for their potential [...]

Politically Queer: Social In(queer)y and the University: Call for Papers

The New School For Social Research Union of Political Science Students Presents

The 2010 Graduate Student Conference

Friday, April 30th 2010

This year’s Department of Politics Graduate Conference explores the application of Queer Theory within social research. Queer Theory, though firmly cemented in the humanities, has yet to have as great an impact [...]

MIX22: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival

MIX 22: November 17-22, 2009

The 2009 MIX Festival serves up queer cinema, art, and performances.

MIX22: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival pulls into the MIX Factory Tuesday, November 17th, where the train dispatcher will hold it until Sunday, November 22nd. So pull up a seat and pass the time with [...]

An oldie but a goodie

Taylor Mac — “If You See Something Say Something”

Wounds Unkissed: A Performance by YaliniDream @ NYU

November 9, Monday 7 to 9 PM

Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South Room 802

Please email crv3@nyu.edu to RSVP if you are not affiliated with NYU and/or to arrange for disability accommodations.

For more information about this event, please call the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services at [...]