CSGS Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University » sexuality

Dr. Ghislaine Pussait’s Homobonobo Project: a performance by Shelly Mars

Robert — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:20:08 +0000

March 1, Thursday
6 to 7:30 pm

Shelly Mars, solo performance artist

followed by a discussion led by:
Una Chaudhuri, English, New York University
Carolyn Dinshaw, English and Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University

Performance Studies Studio
721 Broadway, Room 612

For more information about the Homobonobo Project, click here.

For more information about this event, please contact the NYU Department of English at 212-998-8800.

This event is free and open to the public. Venue is wheelchair accessible.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Animal Studies Initiative; Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Joe A Callaway Series in Dramatic Literature of the Department of English; and Department of Performance Studies.

Sex, Empire, and Literature in the Anglo-American World, 1700-2020: Henry Abelove and “The Gay Science”

Robert — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:37:42 +0000

a two-day conference with Henry Abelove, Rebecca Connor, Jasper Cragwall, Douglas Crimp, Lisa Duggan, Phil Harper, Neville Hoad, Allan Isaac, Janet Jakobsen, Michael Lucey, Steven Maynard, Tavia Nyong’o, Claire Potter, Daniel Rosenberg, Michael Roth, Todd Shepard, Marc Stein, Michael Trask, and Dorothy Wang

February 16 & 17, Thursday & Friday

For more information: abelove.wordpress.com

Thursday, February 16
5 to 8 pm

Fales Library and Special Collections
70 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor

5 to 5:15 pm Welcome

5:15 to 6:45 pm Panel 1: Pedagogy

Chair: Claire Potter (Wesleyan University)

Panelists:
Steven Maynard (Queen’s University)
Tavia Nyong’o (New York University)
Michael Roth (Wesleyan University)
Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University)

7 to 8 pm Reception

8:30 Participant dinner reservation

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Friday, February 17
10 am to 6 pm

The Humanities Initiative
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

10 to 11:30 am Panel 2: Eighteenth Century

Chair: Marc Stein (York University)

Panelists:
Rebecca Connor (Hunter College)
Jasper Cragwall (Loyola University)
Daniel Rosenberg (University of Oregon)

11:30 to 1 pm lunch

1 to 2:30 Panel 3: Poetry and Literature

Chair: Allan Isaac (Rutgers University)

Panelists:
Phil Harper (New York University)
Michael Trask (University of Kentucky)
Dorothy Wang (Williams College)

2:30 to 2:45 pm Break

2:45 to 4:15 pm Panel 4: Queer Studies

Chair: Lisa Duggan (New York University)

Panelists:
Janet Jakobsen (Barnard College)
Michael Lucey (University of California, Berkeley)
Neville Hoad (University of Texas, Austin)

4:15 to 4:30 pm Break

4:30 to 5:30 pm Keynote: Douglas Crimp (University of Rochester)

5:30 to 6 pm Closing Remarks from Henry Abelove (Wesleyan University, visiting New York University, Spring 2012)

This event is free and open to the public. Venues are wheelchair accessible.

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Performance Studies, English, and Social & Cultural Analysis; the Programs in American Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies; the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Fales Library and the Humanities Initiative at NYU.

Applications for Seminar on Debates about Religion and Sexuality

djm489 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:17:15 +0000

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. For scholars, this project would be either a doctoral dissertation or a first book. For other writers, religious leaders, and public advocates, it might be a first book, though it might also be a new curriculum, series of public presentations, or media piece.

The seminar understands both “religion” and “sexuality” broadly. Though its staff will have done specialized work mostly in “Western” religious traditions and expressions of sexuality, participants’ projects may cover a wide range of religions and sexual cultures. The seminar welcomes various methods in religious studies and theology, from the most focused ethnography or local history to the grandest policy proposal or normative argument. It is also interested in projects about media communication, public policy, religious advocacy, and religious education. It especially seeks the participation of writers from outside the United States.

The seminar will be directed by Mark D. Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School. Faculty from Harvard University and other institutions or organizations will lead sessions in their areas of expertise. Large portions of the seminar’s time will be devoted to discussing participants’ writing in workshop format.

The seminar is limited to twelve participants. Harvard Divinity School will pay for their travel to Cambridge and their lodging and meals during the seminar.

Applicants to the seminar should be working on a dissertation, a first book, or a similar large-scale writing project that is centrally concerned with religion and sexuality.

Applications are due February 1, 2012. Invitations to the seminar will be issued by February 15. Details of the application and further information about the program are available online at http://www.hds.harvard.edu/rsseminar.

Questions may be directed to rsseminar(at)hds.harvard.edu or to the Religion and Sexuality Seminar, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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

djm489 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:05:30 +0000

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
Member, DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders

Weill Cornell Medical College
1300 York Avenue – Weill Auditorium (2nd floor)
NYC

Coffee and desserts to follow in Archbold Commons

Sponsored by the LGBT Committee of the Department of Psychiatry and Medicine, Patients, Society I
Weill Cornell Medical College

Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities Mini-Conference

djm489 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:01:01 +0000

Incited by the case of the felony conviction of a young woman of color for sexting with her girlfriend in Oregon and participatory research on criminalization among 1,100 young people in New York City, the mini-conference focuses on the nexus of youth, technology, law enforcement, and constructions of racialized sexuality. Using a broad definition of “policing” that extends across jails, schools, subways, and cyberspace, the conference examines the tools that parents, professionals, and others use to watch over, intervene with, and attempt to “correct” youth. Panels on legal and technology issues will explore the production of knowledge about and surveillance and punishment of LGBTQ youth of color as well as parallel and overlapping processes among other queer and straight youth. Workshops conducted by cutting-edge youth community-organizing and arts projects, Growing Up Policed will also host crucial conversations with and among LGBTQ youth, their allies, and friends to share resources and ideas toward ensuring that their relationships flourish, their communities thrive, and the scope and scale of the dynamic resistances they are forging continue to broaden. The conference will be simultaneously video broadcast between Oregon and NYC with speakers on both coasts.

December 1, Thursday
2 to 8 pm
Refreshments will be served
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave., Room 6304.01
NYC
(btw 34th and 35th streets)

Speakers: Andrea Ritchie, Kate Kendell, Charisa Smith, Jessie Daniels, Gregory Donovan, Juanita Bell, Aimee Cox, Antjuanece Brown, Jolene Jenkins, Michael Hames-Garcia, Darnell Moore, Michelle Maher, Sarah Valentine, Streetwise and Safe, Black Light, Hetrick Martin Institute: Newark, The Sakia Gunn High School, SPARK

Sponsors: Public Science Project, University of Oregon Women’s Center, The Center for the Humanities CUNY-GC. CUNY-GC co-sponsors: Africana Studies, Political Science, Doctor of Public Health Program, QUNY, PhD Program in Social Welfare, Social/Personality Psychology, Sociology Student Association, Women of Color Student Group, Women’s Studies. University of Oregon co-sponsors: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns. Also: ADCO Foundation, SPARK Summit.

Sketch of the Day:

2:00 Speakers: Framing the Issues
2:45 Panel: Cyberspace, Technology, & Youth
3:45 Documentary: “The Story of Antjuanece Brown” and Cross-Coast Youth Roundtable
5:00 Panel: LGBT Youth Legal Landscape
6:30 Workshops: Youth Community Organizing and the Arts

RSVP: growinguppoliced.rsvp(at)gmail.com BRING ID, Metrocards available for youth travel
More Info: http://opencuny.org/growinguppoliced/

Excerpts from Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility

djm489 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:02:48 +0000

Excerpts from Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility

Presented by the Storytelling & Performance Series + NYU Pride Month
October 27, Thursday
7 pm
Rosenthal Pavilion
Kimmel Center 10th Floor
60 Washington Square South

This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. See you there!

Sins Invalid is a performance event celebrating the power of embodiment and the tenderness of struggle, stripping taboos off of sexuality and disability, offering instead a vision of beauty that includes all bodies and all communities.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a 2009-10 Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley;s June Jordan’s Poetry for the People and the co-founder/co-artistic director of Mangos With Chili.

Check out their website for more information: http://www.sinsinvalid.org/
Or check out the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186406978100053

Framing Responsibility: HIV and the Performativity of the Law

Robert — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:22:03 +0000

a brown bag lunch talk with Kane Race

November 11, Friday
12:30 to 1:45 pm

Kane Race, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, and CSGS Visiting Scholar

How can we register the participation of a range of elements, extending beyond the human subject, in the production of HIV events and drug effects? In the context of proposals around biomedical prevention, there is a growing awareness of the need to find ways of responding to complexity, as everywhere new combinations of treatment, behavior, drugs, norms, meanings and devices are coming into encounter with one another, or are set to come into encounter with one another, with a range of unpredictable effects. In this paper I consider the operation of various framing devices that attribute responsibility and causation with regard to HIV events. I propose that we need to sharpen our analytic focus on what these framing devices do; their performativity – that is, their full range of worldly implications and effects. My primary examples are the criminal law and the randomized control trial. I argue that these institutions operate as framing devices: they attribute responsibility for HIV events, and externalize other elements and effects in the process. Drawing on recent work in science and technology studies as well as queer theory, I set out an analytic frame that may help clarify a new role for HIV social research. Attentiveness to the performative effects of these framing devices is crucial, I suggest, if we want better to attend to the global HIV epidemic.

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
41-51 East 11th Street, 7th Floor, Room 741
between University Place and Broadway
wheelchair access at 85-87 University Place, between 11th and 12th Streets

This event is free and open to the public. Bring your lunch, we’ll provide beverages and dessert!

For more information, please call 212-992-9540 or email csgs(at)nyu.edu.

Organized by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Paisley Currah talk at the CUNY Graduate Center 10/20

djm489 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:16:05 +0000

Seminar in Sexuality and Gender

Thursday, October 20 · 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Paisley Currah works in the intersections of political theory, gender and sexuality studies, studies in law and society, LGBT studies, and transgender studies. He has widely written on the transgender rights movement.

His current work investigates state constructions of sex for the purposes of recognition and national projects that use gender as a distributive mechanism.

Paisley Currah received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University and a B.A. (Hon.) in Political Studies from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada.

Refreshments will be served.

365 5th Avenue @ 34th Street
Sociology Department, Room 6112

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society and the PhD Program in Sociology — at CUNY.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information see the Women’s Studies Website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies

Barnard Event – Sex is Not a Mechanism

djm489 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:41:38 +0000

“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 “sex-specific” medicine and reviews questions that could revolutionize the field.

Since the women’s health movement blossomed in the 1970s, there has been an ever-increasing trend toward examining all aspects of human health for evidence of sex differences. But some of the movement’s major achievements—such as a federal mandate to collect and analyze data by sex in all health research—may paradoxically turn out to be obstacles for understanding health differences between and within sex/gender groups. Building on her earlier work in Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences and using examples from both physical and mental health research, this year’s Silver Science Lecture by Rebecca Jordan-Young will review some basic questions about measurement in “sex-specific” medicine that could revolutionize the field and yield research and clinical practice that is actually far more specific and scientific than the current approach. What kind of variable is “sex,” and can it be measured separately from “gender”? When we have information on specific biological mechanisms underlying health differences, what does the variable “sex” add to our analyses?

Rebecca Jordan-Young received her A.B. in political science and women’s studies from Bryn Mawr College and her Doctorate in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University. A specialist in study design and measurement, she conducted epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS, urban health, and drug use before joining the Barnard faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department in 2004. She has been a Health Disparities Research Scholar supported by the NIH.

Sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit http://barnard.edu/events/sex-not-mechanism-making-sex-specific-medicine-more-scientific .

Session Proposals: Second Annual MOMENTUM Conference

djm489 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:15:01 +0000

March 30 to April 1, 2012 in Washington, DC.

The phenomenal growth of online communication has given rise to an amazing amount of sharing, learning and experimenting with different expressions of sexuality, relationships and feminism. MOMENTUM provides a safe place to listen, discuss and learn about sexualities and gender without the fear of reprisal or shaming. It is a space for acceptance and appreciation of diversity, including for those in the LGBTQ, sex-work, BDSM and non-monogamous communities.

During MOMENTUM we will discuss ways to bridge the baffling dichotomies our culture creates around sexuality. While on one hand we have unprecedented sexual freedom, on the other we continue to police sexuality with a frightening vigor. Abortion laws, restrictions on gay marriage, abstinence programs, medicalization of sex, fear of pornography and prosecutions for teenage sexting are examples of one side of the spectrum. The discomfort that strives to make us keep our sexuality hidden conflicts with the use of sex — especially the female body — to sell everything from food to cars to “performance enhancing” products.

Geared toward anyone interested in intelligent conversations about the influence of new media on sexuality, MOMENTUM was the conference to attend in 2011. A smashing success with nearly 50 presenters, among them Megan Andelloux, Jenny Block, Susie Bright, Dr. Lynn Comella, Twanna A. Hines, Dr. Carol Queen, Tristan Taormino, Dr. Shira Tarrant, and Jamye Waxman, 34 sessions covering a wide range of viewpoints on sexuality, and 250+ attendees, MOMENTUM’s jam-packed program had something of interest to everyone. This year’s confirmed speakers include Dr. Charlie Glickman, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Dr. Logan Levkoff and we anticipate 400+ attendees.

As in 2011, each participant will leave the conference with new perspectives, new connections, and a plan to carry the MOMENTUM forward into 2012 and beyond.

Who can present at MOMENTUM?

We urge anyone with a passionate interest in the ways new media has changed the landscape of sexuality, relationships and feminism, whether an individual, therapist, sexuality educator, media maven, professor, blogger or activist, to have your voice heard at MOMENTUM.

Speakers should prepare for sessions that run an hour and ten minutes including 20 to 30 minutes of open discussion. Panels will consist of no more than four speakers and one moderator. Take a look at our 2011 Session details page for more information.

Have an idea for a session but not 100% sure or looking for others to participate in it? We suggest you post in our Forums.

Fill out the linked form and we’ll contact you with more details.

Applications accepted through 12:01 am Eastern time, October 1st.