April 5: Homoerotic Subjectivities Against, With, and Beyond Cubanía

Homoerotic Subjectivities Against, With, and Beyond Cubanía a lunch talk with Margaret Frohlich Friday, April 5 12:30 to 1:45 pm Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 741 Margaret Frohlich, Spanish and Portuguese, Dickinson College, and CSGS Visiting Scholar Fidel Castro’s acknowledgement in 2010 of the imprisonment of homosexuals in …

Unhitched: Love, Marriage, & Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China

NYU Press invites you to a panel discussion and party celebrating the release of a new book by Judith Stacey Thursday, March 31 Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 4th floor lounge, 20 Cooper Square, NYC Author-Meets-Critics Panel Discussion, 5-6:30 Katha Pollitt, The Nation Michael Warner, Yale University Harvey Molotch, NYU Reception, 6:30 RSVP: Betsy …

Gender, Jobs and Freedom: The March on Washington and the Birth of Black Feminism: March 11

The American History Workshop @ NYU presents… William P. Jones University of Wisconsin “Gender, Jobs and Freedom: The March on Washington and the Birth of Black Feminism” Friday, March 11th at 10 a.m. NYU King Juan Carlos I, Room 428 53 Washington Square South NYC Lunch will be served! **The paper is pre-circulated—email khary.polk(at)gmail.com to …

Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference, and the Emirati Post-Oil Generation

Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference, and the Emirati Post-Oil Generation Dr Al-Qasimi will be presenting her research on the complex dissemination and policing of queer internet presences in the UAE. Her research project, focused on queerness, governmentality and the post-oil generation in the UAE, is emblematic of the kind of cutting-edge scholarship that is now emerging …

Revenge, the Queer and the '(neo-) Jacobean': lunch talk @ NYU

Revenge, the Queer and the ‘(neo-) Jacobean’ Katherine M. Graham, CSGS Visiting Scholar Wednesday, March 9, 2011 11:30 am to 1:30 pm The Great Room 19 University Place *Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by Monday, March 7, 5 p.m. for this event through the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YGNKRP6 Katherine M. Graham is a Visiting Scholar …

Egyptian activist and author Dr. Nawal El Saadawi @ NYU March 22 & 24

March 22nd and March 24th Fresh from the revolution in Tahrir Square, Dr. El Saadawi will discuss the current political developments in Egypt and her life as a writer, physician, feminist, and human rights activist. Creativity, Dissidence & Women: A Multidisciplinary Conference Tuesday, March 22, 2011 6:00-9:00 p.m. Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South Eisner/Lubin …

Sexualized Spaces in Public Places: Women, Islam and an Ethics of the Erotic

Sexualized Spaces in Public Places: Women, Islam and an Ethics of the Erotic presented by the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia University Shaireen Rasheed Long Island University, and Senior Fellow, Columbia Law School, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law Monday, November 15 4:20 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. Columbia Law School Case Lounge, …

2011 IASSCS Conference

We are very pleased to announce the eighth biennial meeting of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), co-organized by the Social Anthropology Department of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. The 2011 Conference theme focuses on the multiple ways that equality and inequality are articulated through sexuality. This year we …

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: …