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Affective Tendencies: Bodies, Pleasures, Sexualities conference

Affective Tendencies: Bodies, Pleasures, Sexualities

Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University October 7-9, 2010

Deadline for Registration: September 15, 2010

This conference addresses the question of how sexuality, pleasure and bodies constitute, at least in part, affective life. Affective tendencies, orientations, trajectories have regulated how we understand and experience bodies, pleasures, sexualities. How are [...]

Framing the Vulva: Genital Cosmetic Surgery & Genital Diversity conference in Las Vegas

THE NEW VIEW CAMPAIGN announces its THIRD Conference, to be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Sunday, September 26, 2010.

FRAMING THE VULVA: GENITAL COSMETIC SURGERY AND GENITAL DIVERSITY

While the vulva surgeons are holding a conference on the Las Vegas strip, the New View, in collaboration with the UNLV Women’s [...]

Sexed Asian Machines: On the Communicability of Multimedia

A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Jian Chen

September 20, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm

Jian Chen, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU

Prior to the multimedia convergence initiated by mass digitalization, documentary and pornographic film/video offered the experiences of communicability and interactivity now attributed to “post-cinematic” multimedia. Pornography and documentary are arguably anti-cinematic [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Sexual Nationalisms

Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Belonging in the New Europe

International Conference – 27 & 28 January 2011 – University of Amsterdam

Since 1989, and even more so after 9/11, the rise of new nationalisms has been inextricably linked to a refashioning of the politics, identities and imaginaries of gender and sexuality in [...]

Out in the Himalayas: Lesbians of Yunnan: Same Sex Relations in Minority China

Presented by the RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART in association with OUT magazine and IN THE LIFE

Wednesday night events in Gay Pride Month focusing on gay, lesbian and transgender issues in the Himalayan region.

June 9, 2010 7:00 PM

$15/$13.50 for members

$7 Student Discount w/ Valid Student Identification

Includes pre-event tour Transgender Transformation [...]

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 [...]

Memoir and Biography: Memory, Politics, Secrets & Silence

Presented by the Department of Teaching and Learning at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Blanche Wiesen Cook Distinguished Professor, John Jay College, and CUNY Graduate Center, Department of History

Bettina Aptheker Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies Department and [...]

Christianity & Sexuality Series @ Brick Presbyterian Church

Sundays at 10 AM in the Living Room

The Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York 62 E 92nd St @ Park Ave New York City

April 25 Professor Ann Pellegrini, New York University The Sex Debates: Morality, Religion and Psychology in Contemporary America

May 2 Dr. Robert Dykstra, Princeton Theological Seminary [...]

CREA’s 4th Global Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice

June 12-19, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

Applications are due on or before April 18, 2010. For Institute brochure, click here.

The Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute is an annual, week-long, residential course that focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality. It examines the links between sexuality, rights, gender, and health and their interface with socio-cultural [...]

Critical Beginnings: How Sex-Negative, Anti-Feminist Culture Sets Us Up For Violence

April 29, 2010 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Barnard College Altschul Hall, Room 202 Broadway and 116th Street

Join us for a talk with sexuality educator, activist and filmmaker, Amy Jo Goddard, MA. This lecture series takes a critical look at disempowerment through sex-negative, anti-feminist culture, and creates a call-to-action to women and men [...]