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From Irish Exile to Welsh Celebrity: The Queer Self-Fashioning of the Ladies of Llangollen: Fiona Brideoake

FROM IRISH EXILE TO WELSH CELEBRITY: THE QUEER SELF-FASHIONING OF THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN

a lecture by Fiona Brideoake

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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 [...]

Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS In the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences 2012-2014

The School of Arts and Sciences invites applicants for four two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Fellows will teach one course per term. Eligibility is limited to applicants who will have received their Ph.D. within two years [...]

Call for Papers: LGBTQ Focus Group of Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

CALL FOR PAPERS LGBTQ Focus Group Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference August 2-5, 2012, Hyatt Regency (Capitol Hill), Washington, DC

Submission Deadlines:

Individual Papers or Presentations: October 15 (send to conference planner Nick Salvato, ngs9[at]cornell.edu)

Complete Sessions: November 1 (submit online directly to ATHE at www.athe.org)

The LGBTQ Focus Group of [...]

REVIEW: New Majorities II: A Cross-Country Duet on the State of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Academy

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 [...]

Gender and Sexuality: a Musical Revue!

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 [...]

GIFTS OF MOBILITY: Disability Exceptionalism, Queerness & Rehabilitation in the Emergent Social Order

Gifts of Mobility: Disability Exceptionalism, Queerness & Rehabilitation in the Emergent Global Order

JULIE PASSANANTE ELMAN New York University Dept of Social & Cultural Analysis

ROBERT MCRUER George Washington University Dept of English

April 22, 2011 4:00-6:00PM NYU Dept of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor NY, NY 10003

In 2009, [...]

Transforming Japan – How Feminism and Diversity are Making a Difference

Steinhardt’s Commission on Gender, Race, Social Justice presents:

Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow’s book talk on her new edited volume, Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity are Making a Difference

Wednesday, March 30th | 12:00-1:30pm Kimball Hall, Third Floor Conference Room | 246 Greene Street

Light lunch will be served. Please RSVP to commission.grsj(at)nyu.edu by March 20th.

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Gender and Sexuality Law Queer Theory Workshop w/Joseph Fischel on Transcendent Homosexuals and Dangerous Sex Offenders: Sexual Harm and Freedom in the Judicial Imaginary

The Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality Law and Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender cordially invite you to:

Queer Theory Workshop: Queer Morphologies Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 4:20 p.m., Case Lounge (Amsterdam Avenue and 116th Street, 7th floor)

Transcendent Homosexuals and Dangerous Sex Offenders: Sexual Harm and Freedom in [...]

Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference, and the Emirati Post-Oil Generation

Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference, and the Emirati Post-Oil Generation

Dr Al-Qasimi will be presenting her research on the complex dissemination and policing of queer internet presences in the UAE. Her research project, focused on queerness, governmentality and the post-oil generation in the UAE, is emblematic of the kind of cutting-edge scholarship that is now [...]

Revenge, the Queer and the ‘(neo-) Jacobean’: lunch talk @ NYU

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 [...]