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 …

Colonialism, Sex, Disease

a conversation with Sadia Abbas, Charu Gupta, & Nayan Shah; moderated by Gayatri Gopinath Register for this free online event here. This webinar marks the second session of a new webinar series, Theory and Practice: Transnational Conversations on Gender and Sexuality: a collaboration between CSGS and the Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality at Ashoka …

How to Have Sex in a Pandemic: Intimacy, Disease, & the Politics of Vulnerability

a roundtable discussion with Kenyon Farrow, Amber Musser, Juana Maria Rodriguez, & Dean Spade; moderated by Chandan Reddy CART captioning services will be provided. This panel brings together queer/feminist scholars and activists to consider how the spread of COVID-19 – like prior pandemics – has impacted and disorganized our understandings of the body, the boundaries …

Feb 15: EXPERIMENTS IN SEX

Experiments in Sex a panel discussion with Barbara Browning, Pablo Assumpção B Costa, & André Lepecki February 15, Wednesday 7 to 8:30 pm Barbara Browning, Performance Studies, New York University Pablo Assumpção B Costa, Global Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, New York University André Lepecki, Performance Studies, New York University This panel …

Sept 24: Keeping America Pure: The State, the Church, & the Migrant Body

Keeping America Pure: The State, the Church, & the Migrant Body a lecture by Lois Lorentzen September 24, Thursday 6 to 8 pm Lois Lorentzen, Theology & Religious Studies and the Center for Latino/a Studies in the Americas, University of San Francisco The U.S./Mexico border is the most militarized border in the world between two …

Oct 15: Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era a roundtable discussion with Beatriz Preciado, and José Muñoz & Avital Ronell Tuesday, October 15 6:30 to 8 pm Beatriz Preciado, History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance, University of Paris 8 José Muñoz, Performance Studies, New York University Avital Ronell, Comparative …

Framing Responsibility: HIV and the Performativity of the Law

a brown bag lunch talk with Kane Race November 11, Friday 12:30 to 1:45 pm Kane Race, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, and CSGS Visiting Scholar How can we register the participation of a range of elements, extending beyond the human subject, in the production of HIV events and drug effects? In the …

Sex Work Harm Reduction: Beyond Safer Sex

From the Harm Reduction and Mental Health Project When: April 30, 2010; 3:00-4:30 PM Where: New York University, 6 Washington Place, Room 551, NYC Presented by: Maryse Mitchell-Brody, MSW Harm reduction with people in the sex industry tends to focus on the reduction of risks of sexually transmitted infections. However, the complex set of harms …

Sex and Secularity: Michael Warner @ NYU

2010 LeBoff Scholar Michael Warner Presented by the Council for Media and Culture at NYU Thursday, April 22 6:00 to 8:00 PM including wine and cheese reception 5 Washington Place Lecture Hall #101 Lobby level Click here to RSVP. Michael Warner is the Seymour H. Knox Professor of English, Professor of American Studies and English Department …