Race Does Gender: Braiding Cultural Theory & Clinical Psychoanalysis

RACE DOES GENDER: BRAIDING CULTURAL THEORY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS a clinical case study presented by Avgi Saketopoulou with commentary by Tavia Nyong’o & Cleonie V. White February 15, Tuesday 8 to 10 pm Avgi Saketopoulou, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU Discussants: Tavia Nyong’o, Performance Studies, NYU Cleonie V. White, William Alanson White Institute …

Reading Lawrence King, Re-reading Rodney King: lecture by Gayle M. Salamon

READING LAWRENCE KING, RE-READING RODNEY KING a lecture by Gayle M. Salamon February 9, Wednesday 6:30 to 8 pm Gayle M. Salamon, English, Princeton This talk focuses on Lawrence King, the gender transgressive and gay 15-year-old who was shot to death by a classmate in his Oxnard, California middle school in 2008. Professor Salamon will …

Queer Rican Performance: an evening with Ignacio Rivera & Awilda Rodriguez Lora

QUEER RICAN PERFORMANCE an evening with Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora November 15, Monday 6 to 8 pm NYU Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South Room 802 Presented by the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services’ Storytelling and Performance Series For more information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157347347637869 Join Puerto Rican performers Ignacio Rivera and Awilda Rodriguez Lora …

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 …

The Politics of B-Girling and Battling: Lunch Talk @ NYU

THE POLITICS OF B-GIRLING AND BATTLING A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Imani K. Johnson October 18, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Imani Kai Johnson, Department of Performance Studies, NYU In a dance culture like breaking, how does movement shape gender politics and the cultural meaning of b-girling? 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 741 between …

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: …

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 …

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 …

The Politics of Gender in French Cinema

Wednesday, April 14 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (Conference in English) Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of French, the Institute of French Studies, the Department of Cinema Studies, and the CNRS/NYU International Research Center. New Wave Cinema created a new image of woman which is inseparable from modernity and auteur cinema. However, this image is …