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 …

Queer Theory & Queer of Color Critique Workgroup

Presented by the Summer 2010 NYU Pride in Practice Identity/Expression Education Series with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Explore power, discourse and identity in a peer study group that will focus on the intersections of race, gender, and sexualities. Gain accessible foundations in the core concepts of academia: heteronormativity, homonormativity, and …

Who Cares About Family? Patricia Hill Collins, Joan Williams, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

Monday, November 16th 6:30 PM The Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities at the CUNY Center for the Humanities Despite radical changes in family formations, domestic labor still remains raced, gendered, and otherwise devalued. This panel brings together experts from various fields to examine not only who cares about the family, but who does …

Two Decades & Counting: Critical Reflections on "Intersectionality"

December 1, Tuesday 4 to 6:30 PM SCA Gallery Space 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Bowery @ East 5th Street A roundtable discussion with: Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, UCLA Law Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU Chandan Reddy, University of Washington Karen Shimakawa, Performance Studies, NYU This forum commemorates the 20th anniversary of the enunciation …

The Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture: HORTENSE SPILLERS

November 4th, Wednesday 7:00 PM The Skylight Room (9100) The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th & 35th Streets Sponsored by the Africana Studies Concentration and co-sponsored by IRADAC, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, and the PhD Program in English Inaugurated by Hortense Spillers, the Lorde/Hemphill lecture commemorates the …

Wayward Lives and the Motion of History

A Distinguished Faculty Lecture by Saidiya Hartman Presented by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Humanities Initiative at New York University 29 October, 5:30pm Humanities Initiative 20 Cooper Square Fifth floor More Information: nd35@nyu.edu Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She received …

Martin Wong: Exploration in Race and Masculinity in Graffiti Culture

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6 to 8 PM Presented by the A/P/A Institute at NYU A/P/A Institute at NYU 41-51 East 11th Street 7th Floor Gallery between University Place and Broadway Free and open to the public. RSVP by Friday, October 30 — Online, via email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or call 212-992-9653. Panelists: Lady Pink Sharp Yasmin …