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Queer Theory & Queer of Color Critique Workgroup

Presented by the Summer 2010 NYU Pride in Practice Identity/Expression Education Series with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Explore power, discourse and identity in a peer study group that will focus on the intersections of race, gender, and sexualities.

Gain accessible foundations in the core concepts of academia: heteronormativity, homonormativity, [...]

Call for Contributions for Edited Book Volume: Black Senior Women: Race, Age, and Sexual Identity

Publishing House: Palgrave Macmillan

Editors: Bette J. Dickerson, PhD & Nicole Rousseau, PhD

Publication Date: 2011

A truly collaborative project, the first editor of this piece, Bette J. Dickerson, is an associate professor in the department of sociology at American University in Washington. Dr. Dickerson’s research specialties include: ageing and the social aspects of [...]

“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 [...]

Who Cares About Family? Patricia Hill Collins, Joan Williams, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

Monday, November 16th 6:30 PM

The Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities at the CUNY Center for the Humanities

Despite radical changes in family formations, domestic labor still remains raced, gendered, and otherwise devalued. This panel brings together experts from various fields to examine not only who cares about the family, but [...]

Two Decades & Counting: Critical Reflections on “Intersectionality”

December 1, Tuesday 4 to 6:30 PM

SCA Gallery Space 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Bowery @ East 5th Street

A roundtable discussion with:

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, UCLA Law

Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Chandan Reddy, University of Washington

Karen Shimakawa, Performance Studies, NYU

This forum commemorates the 20th anniversary of [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Berkshire Conference on Women’s History

“Generations: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space”

June 9-12, 2011

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Proposals due March 1, 2010.

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12, 2011.

2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on the History of [...]

The Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture: HORTENSE SPILLERS

November 4th, Wednesday 7:00 PM

The Skylight Room (9100) The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th & 35th Streets

Sponsored by the Africana Studies Concentration and co-sponsored by IRADAC, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, and the PhD Program in English

Inaugurated by Hortense Spillers, [...]

Wayward Lives and the Motion of History

A Distinguished Faculty Lecture by Saidiya Hartman

Presented by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Humanities Initiative at New York University

29 October, 5:30pm

Humanities Initiative 20 Cooper Square Fifth floor

More Information: nd35@nyu.edu

Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University. [...]

Martin Wong: Exploration in Race and Masculinity in Graffiti Culture

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6 to 8 PM

Presented by the A/P/A Institute at NYU

A/P/A Institute at NYU 41-51 East 11th Street 7th Floor Gallery between University Place and Broadway

Free and open to the public.

RSVP by Friday, October 30 — Online, via email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or call 212-992-9653.

Panelists:

Lady Pink [...]