Downtown Now: Jibz Cameron & K8 Hardy @ NYU

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 7-8:30PM NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the first event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum Jibz Cameron is a musician and performance artist, known for her one-woman performance persona Dynasty Handbag. She is currently a visiting lecturer in Performance Studies. K8 Hardy is a video and performance artist and is …

The Facisization of Everyday Life in Sri Lanka

November 9, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM Mangalika de Silva, Visiting Scholar, CSGS Based on prior activism as director of the NGO “Women for Peace” and on current ethnographic research on the minoritization of women and Muslims, this talk explores genealogies of formal and informal state terror.  Counterinsurgency nationalism in Sri Lanka is theorized as …

Dorothea Lange: The Gendered Story of a Visual Intellectual

Linda Gordon 21 October, Wednesday 7 PM Presented by the Leon Levy Center for Biography @ CUNY Join us for the launch event for the highly anticipated biography of a complex figure in the American cultural and political landscape. Widely regarded as the most influential American female photographer of the twentieth century, Dorothea Lange is …

Before Sex: One Day Conference at Rutgers University

October 23, 2009 8:30 AM to 6 PM Teleconference Room 4th floor of Alexander Library 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Until recently we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as socio-intellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. But over the past three decades, evidence and arguments have accumulated to suggest …

Our Family film screening

Directed by K. P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro October 20, Tuesday 7 to 9 PM CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9204-05 between 34th and 35th Streets 2007, 56 min., India Tamil with English Subtitles Set in Tamilnadu, India, Our Family weaves together excerpts from Nirvanam, a solo theatrical performance by Pritham K. Chakravarthy, …

Feminism/s Without Borders?: Perspectives from France & the U.S.

October 16, Friday 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews between 8th Street and Washington Square North A symposium co-organized with the Institute of French Studies, NYU Made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, USA, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris This symposium will put scholars …

Homosexuality and Fascism

Judith Jack Halberstam October 19 6 –8 pm NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor In Sasha Baron Cohen’s most recent camp spoof, Brüno, the very gay and very swish Austrian fashionista compares himself several times to Hitler and jokes that he is “the second most misunderstood Austrian in history.” …

Teaching, Not Bowing: Queer Pedagogy in an Age of Assimilation

October 14, Wednesday 7 to 9 PM LGBTQ Studies Pedagogy Workshop presented by CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) and co-sponsored by CSGS. Matthew Brim, English, College of Staten Island, CUNY This workshop will explore the responsibilities of the queer studies teacher in hyperassimilationist gay and straight culture. How might queer classrooms be …

Teaching Sex-De/Constructing Bodies, Categories & Norms: Feminist Sex Shops in the U.S. & Sweden

October 12, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM Nina Lykke, Gender Studies, Linköping University, and director of the Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel) 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 709 between University Place and Broadway This presentation draws from Nina Lykke’s ongoing research on alternative sex education in the U.S. and Sweden. These “alternative” sites and media …

Reframing Globalisation and Internationalism: Feminism in India and the Question of Asia

Mary E. John, Director, Center for Women in Developing Societies, New Delhi ISERP’s project on “Gender and the Global Locations of Liberalism,” and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University, invite you to a talk and discussion with Mary E. John is Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Women in Developing Societies, …