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“Spanking and Poetry”: An Exhibition & Conference on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

February 25-26, 2010

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City

Visit the “Spanking and Poetry” website for more info.

Historicizing Erotohistoriography: A Lecture by Elizabeth Freeman

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE FOR SOMETIME NEXT YEAR.

Elizabeth Freeman, English, UC Davis

Developmentalist accounts of psychological and bodily becoming plot the “growth” and “maturation” of both individual subjects and populations in ways that reduce what counts as a viable social formation or a livable life. Taking issue with the straightjacket 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 the theme “queer privates” certainly invites [...]

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 Women and the 100th anniversary of [...]

RECAP: Teaching Sex – De/Constructing Bodies, Categories and Norms

“Teaching Sex – De/Constructing Bodies, Categories and Norms: Feminist Sex Shops in the U.S. and Sweden”
Nina Lykke, Gender Studies, Linköping University, and director of the Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel)
@ the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
October 12, 2009

Dr. Lykke’s packed presentation was a great kickoff to the Brown Bag Lunch [...]

Before Sex: One Day Conference at Rutgers University

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 to suggest that the categories of oppositional gender [...]

RECAP: Biopolitics of the ‘Modern Body’: Contemporary Dilemmas

Emily Martin, Ed Cohen and Rebecca Young

“Biopolitics of the ‘Modern Body’: Contemporary Dilemmas”
Ed Cohen, Rutgers University
Emily Martin, New York University
Rebecca Young, Barnard College
@ the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
October 7, 2009

This forum moderated by Emily Martin with Ed Cohen and Rebecca Young brought together their work in [...]

Teaching Sex-De/Constructing Bodies, Categories & Norms: Feminist Sex Shops in the U.S. & Sweden

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 and media for sex education include feminist [...]

Gender, Sexuality, and Social Transformation in South Korea

Colloquium and Photo Exhibition at NYU

Organizers:
Sealing Cheng, Assistant Prof., Women’s Studies, Wellesley:  sealing.cheng@gmail.com
Henry Em, Associate Prof., NYU East Asian Studies:  henryem@gmail.com

The aim of the photo exhibition, colloquium, and methods workshop is to analyze and intervene in the debate over sex work/prostitution in South Korea.

Rather than simply confirm victimhood, or affirm dominant beliefs, attitudes, and values [...]

What’s Sex Got to Do with Family?

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 wedded or even indifferent [...]