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Desire for the Other: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory in Conversation

a roundtable on the new book With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories

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November 4, Friday 4 to 6 pm

13-19 University Place (map) Lecture room 102 (please note room change) between 8th Street and Waverly Place

Panelists include:

contributing authors Orna Guralnik and Eyal Rozmarin

Ben Kafka, Media [...]

REVIEW: The Racial Genealogy of Excellence: “Excellence Is The Watchword”

The Racial Genealogy of Excellence: “Excellence Is The Watchword” New York University, 14 September 2011

Roderick A. Ferguson kicked off the fall CSGS calendar of events with a chapter from his provocatively titled forthcoming volume, The Reorder Of Things: On The Institutionalization of Difference. Professor Ferguson contextualized this project in relation to his previous [...]

Gender, Race & Citizenship in the Global Village: The Resurgence of Oriental-ism

Sex Crimes Against Black Girls Anthology-Call for Submissions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Sex Crimes against Black Girls: The Anthology Edited by: Shantrelle P. Lewis & Yaba A. Blay http://www.sexcrimesagainstblackgirls.com/anthology

About the Anthology:

Historically regarded as matters private to our community, those, that if put in plain sight, might inadvertently corroborate White supremacist imaginations of Black pathology, sex crimes against Black girls are the [...]

March 18: Gender, Politics and Heteronormativity in Croatia Today

New York University Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and the Network of East-West Women presents:

Gender, Politics and Heteronormativity in Croatia Today: A panel for the Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Speakers:

Vesna Kesic, Croatian feminist activist, journalist, researcher, “Activism and culture as [...]

James Baldwin’s Global Imagination: a multi-site conference event

JAMES BALDWIN’S GLOBAL IMAGINATION

a multi-site conference event

February 17 to 20, Thursday to Sunday various times

Contact baldwinconference@gmail.com for information

For conference schedule, locations and other details, click HERE (pdf format).

Staged in the context of global economic insecurity, a planet gripped by the ravages of war and climate change, ever-increasing gaps [...]

Race Does Gender: Braiding Cultural Theory & Clinical Psychoanalysis

RACE DOES GENDER: BRAIDING CULTURAL THEORY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS

a clinical case study presented by Avgi Saketopoulou with commentary by Tavia Nyong’o & Cleonie V. White

February 15, Tuesday 8 to 10 pm

Avgi Saketopoulou, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU

Discussants:

Tavia Nyong’o, Performance Studies, NYU

Cleonie V. White, William Alanson White [...]

Reading Lawrence King, Re-reading Rodney King: lecture by Gayle M. Salamon

READING LAWRENCE KING, RE-READING RODNEY KING

a lecture by Gayle M. Salamon

February 9, Wednesday 6:30 to 8 pm

Gayle M. Salamon, English, Princeton

This talk focuses on Lawrence King, the gender transgressive and gay 15-year-old who was shot to death by a classmate in his Oxnard, California middle school in 2008. Professor [...]

Race, Sexuality, and Power

How has the relationship between race and sexuality changed over time? Join three distinguished scholars as they discuss the evolution of these issues, moving from 10th-century Haiti to the 20th-century art market.

Doris Garraway (French, Northwestern University) Arlene Keizer, (English, University of California, Irvine) Jennifer Morgan (Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU)

Moderated [...]

The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism & the Racialization of Intimacy: David L. Eng

THE FEELING OF KINSHIP: QUEER LIBERALISM AND THE RACIALIZATION OF INTIMACY

A lecture by David L. Eng

This talk has been CANCELED — we will reschedule for the fall 2011 semester — we apologize for the inconvenience.

David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania

This talk is drawn from David L. Eng’s recent book [...]