a talk by Cathy J. Cohen THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. Cathy J. Cohen, Political Science, University of Chicago On May 9, 2012 President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage. It was the first time a sitting president in the United States had made such a declaration. His …
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Tuesday, April 19 7 to 9 pm The last Counterpublic Collective session of the spring season will look at pop artist Lady Gaga and hit TV show Glee through the relationship between capitalism and queer identity. Both Lady Gaga and Glee have been praised for their impact on and promotion of gay culture and politics: …
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JAMES BALDWIN’S GLOBAL IMAGINATION a multi-site conference event February 17 to 20, Thursday to Sunday various times Contact baldwinconference@gmail.com for information For conference schedule, locations and other details, click HERE (pdf format). Staged in the context of global economic insecurity, a planet gripped by the ravages of war and climate change, ever-increasing gaps in wealth, …
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STATES OF DEVOTION: RELIGION, NEOLIBERALISM, AND THE POLITICS OF THE BODY IN THE AMERICAS November 4 & 5, Thursday & Friday 10 am to 7 pm For more information: http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/announcements/728-nov-4-5-states-of-devotion For a PDF of the full program, click here. This conference aims to promote and strengthen interdisciplinary dialogue about the changing role and place of …
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 …
How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel I Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street free On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider “general standards of decency and respect” in …
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An Interdisciplinary Symposium at New York University September 23 to 25, Thursday to Saturday Keynote lecture by Thomas Keenan Other participants include Eliot Borenstein, David Campbell, Ilana Feldman, Sara M. Green, Nina Ha, Zenia Kish, Jana Lipman, Louisa Schein, April Shemak, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Celina Su, and Miriam Ticktin For more information, click HERE. This …
A symposium co-organized by NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality with funding by The Henry Luce Foundation April 30, Friday 10 AM to 6 PM Keynote lecture by Roberto J. Blancarte (Center of Sociological Studies, El Colegio de México). Other confirmed participants include: Faye Ginsburg …
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A lecture by Dean Spade April 7, Wednesday 6 to 8 PM Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law; Founder, Sylvia Rivera Law Project As critical trans politics continues to emerge and develop, there is an increasingly vocal demand for trans political formations to center racial and economic justice and respond to crises facing trans …
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April 8, Thursday 7 to 8:30 PM Lauren Berlant, English, University of Chicago “After the Good Life” works with two films of Laurent Cantet [Ressources humaines/Human Resources (1999) and L’Emploi du Temps/Time Out (2001)] to engage the new affective languages of the contemporary economic atmosphere across Europe: languages of anxiety, contingency, and precarity that take …
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