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Applications for Seminar on Debates about Religion and Sexuality

From June 5 to 14, 2012, Harvard Divinity School will host the Seminar on Debates about Religion and Sexuality. This seminar is for scholars, other writers, religious leaders, and public advocates who are working on a first large project in which they hope to change the terms of current debates around religions and sexuality. [...]

Can Sexual Orientation Be Changed? How a Clinical Question Became a Culture Wars Issue

Friday, December 9 1 to 2:30 pm

Jack Drescher, M.D.

Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, New York Medical College Clinical Supervisor and Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University President, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association [...]

The DSK Scandal: Transatlantic Reflections on Sex, Law, and Politics

Thursday & Friday, December 1 & 2

Cardozo School of Law (55 Fifth Avenue) Institute of French Studies, New York University, at La Maison Française of NYU (16 Washington Mews)

With the co-sponsorship of IRIS (CNRS/EHESS) & Faculty of Law, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, and the support of UMI Transitions (CNRS/NYU)

Co-organized by Éric [...]

Barnard Event – Sex is Not a Mechanism

“Sex” is Not a Mechanism: Making “Sex-Specific Medicine” More Scientific

The Roslyn S. Silver ’27 Science lecture with Rebecca Jordan-Young Tuesday, October 11 6:30 PM James Room Barnard Hall, 4th Floor

Barnard College 116th Street and Broadway NYC

Join Rebecca Jordan-Young, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard, as she explores [...]

CFP: Youth, Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Debates

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Youth, Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Debates Wednesday 25 January 2012 09:00-18:00 East Midlands Conference Centre University of Nottingham, UK

Organisers:

Dr. Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, University of Nottingham, UK http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/stafflookup/andrew.yip

Dr. Sarah-Jane Page, Durham University, UK http://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/staff/profile/?id=9274

Aim:

This conference aims to bring together scholars in the social sciences [...]

CCASD Keywords: MOVEMENTS

CCASD Keywords: Interdisciplinary Roundtable Conversations: Movements Wednesday, September 21st, 5-7pm 754 Schermerhorn Ext., Columbia University

Featured participants:

Lila Abu-Lughod Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor, Department of Anthropology and Institute for Research on Women and Gender Columbia University Director, Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference

Janet Jakobsen Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women’s, Gender, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

New Majorities II: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies

The NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) have undertaken a joint project to address the challenges currently facing the fields of gender and sexuality studies, women’s studies, LGBT studies, ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies.

April 29, Friday

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