The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism & the Racialization of Intimacy: David L. Eng

THE FEELING OF KINSHIP: QUEER LIBERALISM AND THE RACIALIZATION OF INTIMACY A lecture by David L. Eng This talk has been CANCELED — we will reschedule for the fall 2011 semester — we apologize for the inconvenience. David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania This talk is drawn from David L. Eng’s recent book The Feeling …

Where is Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later: An Exhibition and Symposium

WHERE IS ANA MENDIETA? ¿DÓNDE ESTA ANA MENDIETA? 25 Years Later: An Exhibition and Symposium READ THE REVIEW! “Where is Ana Mendieta?”: A Revisitation of the Artist’s Life and Work For more information, click here. Non-NYU affiliates please RSVP to PSLectures@gmail.com September 8, 2010 marks 25 years since artist Ana Mendieta’s fatal fall, naked, from …

Margarethe Von Trotta's VISION comes to the FILM FORUM October 13

OCTOBER 13-26 – TWO WEEKS ONLY MARGARETHE VON TROTTA IN PERSON OPENING WEEKEND! 209 W Houston Street (212) 727-8110 www.filmforum.org Showtimes: 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Tickets available online beginning October 6 Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine …

The Zany Science: Post-Fordist Performance, Gender, and the Problem of Fun

Eugene Lang College Gender Studies Lecture Series Culture and Media Studies and Literary Studies Present: The Zany Science: Post-Fordist Performance, Gender, and the Problem of Fun September 27, 4:30 Eugene Lang College, Wollman Hall, 5th floor 65 W. 11th Street NYC Sianne Ngai Sianne Ngai shares work from her current book project, Our Aesthetic Categories: …

Gawking, Gaping, Staring: Living in Marked Bodies: Eli Clare @ NYU

GAWKING, GAPING, STARING: LIVING IN MARKED BODIES A performance by Eli Clare October 4, Monday 7 to 9 pm READ THE REVIEW! Eli Clare, “Building Community/Resisting Shame”: Another side of living in Marked Bodies For more information: please contact the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services at 212-998-4424. Disabled people, trans people, fat people, and …

Assume Nothing by Rebecca Swan

Assume Nothing by Rebecca Swan Multi Media Performance Event Acclaimed mixed media artist Rebecca Swan from Aotearoa / New Zealand is in New York to launch Assume Nothing – a searingly beautiful book celebrating gender diversity. This work has been aptly described by Art News New Zealand as: “Touchingly intimate yet powerful no holds barred …

Barbara Hammer – MoMA Retrospective

Barbara Hammer MoMA Retrospective 9/15/10-10/13/10 MoMA CELEBRATES BARBARA HAMMER, WITH A MONTH-LONG RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PROLIFIC ARTIST’S EXTENSIVE BODY OF WORK Exhibition Includes the World Premiere of Hammer’s Newest Film, Generations, as well as Her Groundbreaking Experimental Short Films and Documentaries Barbara Hammer from September 15-October 13, 2010 at 
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters NEW …

How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20

How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel I Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street free On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider “general standards of decency and respect” in …

In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s — October 8-10 2010

In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s Fall Festival October 8th 2010 – October 10th 2010 The 1970s was a period of intense excitement, change, activism, and activity for lesbians. As lesbian feminism redefined what qualified as a “political issue” and challenged every assumption about gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and …

Queers, Gringos, and Other Deviants: New Films from Mexico

Filmmaker Greg Berger, longtime resident of Mexico and professor at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, presents cutting edge new films from Mexico in Queers, Gringos, and Other Deviants. September 14, Tuesday 6 PM NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor NYC The legalization of same-sex marriage in Mexico …