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“Our bodies are also occupied territories. Perhaps the ultimate goal of performance, especially if you are a woman, gay or a person ‘of color,’ is to decolonize our bodies and make these decolonizing mechanisms apparent to our audience in the hope that they will get inspired to do the same with their own.” -Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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UCLA Center for the Study of Women — Thinking Gender 2012

UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN announces:

THINKING GENDER 2012 22nd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference Call for papers

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, gender and/or sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels on any topic pertaining [...]

UCLA Center for the Study of Women – Thinking Gender 2012

UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN announces: THINKING GENDER 2012 22nd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference Call for papers

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, gender and/or sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels on any topic pertaining [...]

IRWAG Research Friday with Maya Mikdashi on “Sex and Sectarianism”

The Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University presents Research Friday with Maya Mikdashi “Sex and Sectarianism: Disarticulating Madhhab/Sect and Sex/Gender”

Friday, October 7, 11am-12:30pm 754 Schermerhorn Extension, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, Columbia University Response from Kendall Thomas (Law, Columbia)

Lunch will be served!

Please join us for the first IRWAG Research [...]

Visiting Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies Program, Brooklyn College

Associate/Full Professor of Women’s Studies (Visiting Endowed Chair), Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

The Women’s Studies Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, invites applications for a Visiting Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at the Associate or Full Professor rank (Job ID# 4645) beginning in Fall [...]

Call for Papers: “Gender, Sexuality, and Poverty”

2012 Women’s Studies Conference: Sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Consortium Saturday, March 31, 2012 8:30 am to 4:00 pm Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA

The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC), comprised of Dickinson, Franklin and Marshall, and Gettysburg Colleges, sponsors an annual conference on women’s studies. The theme of the 2012 conference, held at Gettysburg College [...]

Call for Papers Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue: Enchantment

Call for Papers Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue: Enchantment Special Editors: Ann Burlein & Jackie Orr

This issue of WSQ attempts to intervene in the present moment by conjuring the power and seductions of enchantment. How to find and create places of allure when things seem impossible, when the world seems impassable, when survival [...]

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 [...]

Activism and the Academy: A Barnard Center for Research on Women Anniversary Conference

Call for Papers and Panels

Activism and the Academy: A Barnard Center for Research on Women Anniversary Conference Celebrating 40 Years of Social Justice Work

September 23-24, 2011 Barnard College

Confirmed speakers: Sonia Alvarez, Lisa Duggan, Jacqueline Ebanks, Amber Hollibaugh, Ana Oliveira, Ann Pellegrini, and Ai-jen Poo.

Forty years ago, the Barnard Center for [...]

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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Thursday, March 24, 2011 -Seminar in Gender and Sexuality- Jonathan Metzl

PLEASE JOIN US; FREE VEGETARIAN LUNCH PROVIDED

Women’s Studies Certificate Program and Center for the Study of Women and Society

Seminar in Gender and Sexuality: JONATHAN METZL Psychiatry and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan

Thursday, March 24th, 2011 12:00-2:00 pm Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)

JONATHAN METZL, Psychiatry and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, co-editor [...]