Brother to Brother, Sister to Sister a series celebrating the works of LGBT artists Tuesday & Wednesday, March 11 & 12 IAAA (Institute of African American Affairs) at New York University continues the year-long series on lectures, poetry readings, and film screenings with key figures, as well as emerging stars, of the LGBT intelligentsia. At […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
April 11-13: Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies
Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies a conference with keynotes by Fred Moten and Sianne Ngai Friday through Sunday, April 11-13 To live labor is to negotiate the extended processes of reproducing ourselves and others. To live labor is to engage the material conditions that traverse personhood and thinghood. To live labor is to attend […]
April 10: Perverse Ambitions, Deviant Careers: A Queer History of the Modern American Workplace
Perverse Ambitions, Deviant Careers: A Queer History of the Modern American Workplace a lecture by Margot Canaday Thursday, April 10 6:30 to 8 pm Margot Canaday, History, Princeton University While historians of sexuality have explored working class cultures, an assumption that workplaces were “straight spaces” in which queer people passed has limited inquiry into the […]
April 1: Hopefully Devoted, or the Feminist Lyre
Hopefully Devoted, or the Feminist Lyre a lecture by P.A. Skantze Tuesday, April 1 6:30 to 8 pm P.A. Skantze, Performance Practices, University of Roehampton, and CSGS Global Visiting Scholar This lecture, born of P.A. Skantze’s project The Flaneur at Her Devotions, makes use of a new methodology Skantze has been experimenting with: lyric theory, […]
March 6: The AIDS Generation
The AIDS Generation a panel discussion with Eric Bartley, Jack Drescher, & Perry N. Halkitis Thursday, March 6 7:30 to 9:30 pm Eric Bartley, AIDS activist and Housing Works, Inc. Board of Directors member Jack Drescher, psychiatrist & psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City Perry N. Halkitis, Applied Psychology, Public Health & Medicine […]