Performing (at) the Body’s Edge: “This Is Just Like Life” New York University, 15 November 2011
The fall CSGS calendar of evening events ended on an amazing note, with a conversation between Shelley Jackson and Rebecca Schneider, hosted by CSGS and NYU’s Department of Performance Studies. Jackson and Schneider, whose books include The Melancholy [...]
a conversation with Shelley Jackson and Rebecca Schneider
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November 15, Tuesday 7 to 8:30 pm
Shelley Jackson, writer and artist
Rebecca Schneider, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University
The question of the body — the body as question – is a recurring motif in the work [...]
SlutWalk NYC – Rally and March Saturday, October 1st Noon Union Square
Toronto police officer Michael Sanguinetti had no idea he would spark an international wave of protests when he told students at York University that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized.” But his words tapped into a [...]
“Where is Ana Mendieta?”: A Revisitation of the Artist’s Life and Work New York University, 7 October 2010
A capacity crowd, their bodies packed against each other in the Studio at the Department of Performance Studies, came out on October 7th for a symposium on the work and legacy of the Cuban-American artist Ana [...]
STATES OF DEVOTION: RELIGION, NEOLIBERALISM, AND THE POLITICS OF THE BODY IN THE AMERICAS
November 4 & 5, Thursday & Friday 10 am to 7 pm
For more information: http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/announcements/728-nov-4-5-states-of-devotion
For a PDF of the full program, click here.
This conference aims to promote and strengthen interdisciplinary dialogue about the changing role and place [...]
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EROTOHISTORIOGRAPHY
A lecture by Elizabeth Freeman
October 28, Thursday 7 to 8:30 pm
READ THE REVIEW! Queer Time Makes Queer Bodies: Elizabeth Freeman Historicizes Erotohistoriography
Elizabeth Freeman, English, UC Davis
Proposing the body as site of historical encounter–in and across time—Elizabeth Freeman traces a history of carnal historiographical practices that [...]
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
February 25th and 26th, 2010
Click here for full program, or visit the CUNY Center for the Humanities.
Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Keynote Speaker: Peter Brooks and J.M. [...]
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 New York University, 7 October 2009
This forum moderated by Emily Martin with Ed Cohen and Rebecca Young brought together their work in [...]