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From the Harm Reduction and Mental Health Project
When: April 30, 2010; 3:00-4:30 PM
Where: New York University, 6 Washington Place, Room 551, NYC
Presented by: Maryse Mitchell-Brody, MSW
Harm reduction with people in the sex industry tends to focus on the reduction of risks of sexually transmitted infections. However, the complex set of [...]
2010 LeBoff Scholar Michael Warner
Presented by the Council for Media and Culture at NYU
Thursday, April 22 6:00 to 8:00 PM
including wine and cheese reception
5 Washington Place Lecture Hall #101 Lobby level
Click here to RSVP.
Michael Warner is the Seymour H. Knox Professor of English, Professor of American Studies and English [...]
Friday and Saturday, October 8-9, 2010, Royce Hall
University of California – Los Angeles
This year’s UCLA QUEER Studies Conference welcomes talks or pre-planned panels dealing with any of the following diverse topics/questions/concerns:
Queering trans-nationalism; queer & trans-nationalism Queer Globalization: On cultural and/or economic exchanges Queer politics and theories of migrations Queer translations: How [...]
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 [...]
October 23, 2009 8:30 AM to 6 PM
Teleconference Room 4th floor of Alexander Library 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Until recently we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as socio-intellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. But over the past three decades, evidence and arguments have accumulated [...]
October 12, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Nina Lykke, Gender Studies, Linköping University, and director of the Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel)
41-51 East 11th Street, Room 709 between University Place and Broadway
This presentation draws from Nina Lykke’s ongoing research on alternative sex education in the U.S. and Sweden. These “alternative” sites [...]
with Lisa Duggan, Elizabeth Grosz, Gayle Salamon
The Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities
Sex is both at the core and the edge of the family life. In an era when the conceptual and political transformation of the family is most palpable on a global scale, often generating impassioned debates among those [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2009 Claire Potter
Arguably, it was Ronald Reagan shaking his head in the middle of a presidential debate with Jimmy Carter as he chuckled ruefully, “There you go again,” that created an emotional turning point in the 1980 campaign. It’s what we remember, anyway, that and the explosive, derisive response from [...]
Effort to oust profs By Greg Bluestein | Associated Press | Story updated at 11:38 pm on 2/6/2009
ATLANTA – Upset House Republicans are mounting a campaign to purge Georgia’s higher education system of professors with an expertise in racy sexuality topics as the state grapples with a $2.2 billion shortfall.
State Rep. Charlice [...]
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