Queer Forms

a book talk & conversation with Ramzi Fawaz & Weiyu Dang November 17 2022, 6 to 7:30 pm ET 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Non-NYU guests: RSVP required for in-person attendance. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. (Current NYU students, faculty, and staff do not need to RSVP to attend in person.) TO ATTEND VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM WEBINAR, PLEASE …

Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, & the State in Lebanon

a book talk & conversation with Maya Mikdashi & Maysam Taher October 20 2022, 6 to 7:30 pm 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Registration not required for in-person attendance. In-person attendance is limited to current NYU students, staff, and faculty who are compliant with NYU’s COVID-19 vaccination policy. Per current NYU policy, masks can no longer …

Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag & Trans Performance

Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag & Trans Performance from Hemispheric Institute on Vimeo. Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag & Trans Performance a book talk & conversation with Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes & Arnaldo Cruz Malavé — with drag performances by Vena Cava and Warhola Pop! October 6 2022, Thursday, 6 to 8 …

8 Lives Vigil

March 16, 2022, Wednesday from 11 am to 1 pm RSVP here. We are nearing the one-year anniversary of the tragic spa shootings that occurred in the Atlanta area in March 2021. Red Canary Song, in collaboration with Asian American Feminist Collective and NYU’s Intersectional Feminist/Queer Collective, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and …

Queer/Feminist/Indigenous Approaches to Climate Crisis: from the Caribbean to the Pacific

 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 20, 2020. PLESE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES! a conversation with Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua & Angelique V. Nixon, moderated by Dean Itsuji Saranillio   This panel places in conversation scholar/activists situated in the Caribbean and the Pacific to highlight the interrconnections between these two regions through a queer, feminist, and …

Talking with Pêdra Costa

Pêdra Costa (1978) is a Brazilian-German Performance Artist and Visual & Urban Anthropologist based in Berlin and working with queer artists internationally. Through the complexity and fragmented epistemologies from queer communities, their work has built bridges between Performance Art, music, visual art and text, having the body as the main medium. Embodying knowledge almost destroyed …

November 15: UNRULY VISIONS: THE AESTHETIC PRACTICES OF QUEER DIASPORA

a book launch & roundtable with Licia Fiol-Matta, Gayatri Gopinath, Lisa Lowe, Ritty Lukose, Manijeh Moradian, & Tavia Nyong’o November 15, Thursday, 6 to 8 pm PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION:  Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, 1st floor Licia Fiol-Matta, Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Literatures, New York University Gayatri Gopinath, Social & …

October 23: QUEER TROUBLE IN CARIBBEAN ART & ACTIVISM

a conversation with Rosamond S. King & Angelique V. Nixon October 23, Tuesday, 6 to 8 pm CSGS, 285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor Rosamond S. King, English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Angelique V. Nixon, Institute for Gender & Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad Two award winning artist-scholars …