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CLAGS strives to make all of its events accessible to our members.
ASL interpretation can be provided for any CLAGS event if requested 10 or more working days prior to the event.
Additionally, our events are scent-free, and we ask that attendees refrain from wearing perfume,
cologne, hair spray, and other scented products so that everyone can participate comfortably.
If you have other accessibility needs, please contact the CLAGS office,
with a relay operator when necessary, at (212) 817-1955 or email us at
clags@gc.cuny.edu.
Seminars in the City Queering the Crip/Cripping the Queer: Introduction to Queer and Disability Studies Facilitated by Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY; Kim Christensen, Purchase College, SUNY; Simi Linton, Hunter College, CUNY; and Peter Penrose, Graduate Center, CUNY. In this monthly seminar we will be exploring the similarities, differences, intersections, and conflicts between Queer Studies and Disability Studies. We will examine both Queer and Disability activism and scholarship and discuss how those who are marginalized by not only queerness and disability, but also race, sex, gender, class, and other factors can be placed at the center of both discourse and life. Seminars will meet in a wheelchair-accessible room at the LGBT Community Center from 7-9pm the second Wednesday of each month this fall: September 10, October 8, November 12, and December 10. Registrants are asked to read Simi Linton’s Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity for the first meeting's discussions. Click here for a full schedule of readings and discussion topics. A limited number of the books discussed each week are available on loan from the CLAGS office on a first-come first-served basis. Also, Bluestockings, New York’s women’s bookstore, will stock texts used in the course and is offering them to seminar members at a 10% discount.To register for the seminar, and to notify the CLAGS office of any additional accommodations you need (ASL interpretation, large print copies, etc.), please contact us at clags@gc.cuny.edu, or by telephone, with a relay operator if necessary, at 212-817-1955. Back-to-School Party/ Changing of the Guard Join us in celebrating the many labors of Alisa Solomon, and welcoming CLAGS’s new Executive Director, Paisley Currah! This public reception is an opportunity for all CLAGS constituents and LGTBQ community members to meet our new leader, and say goodbye to our departing one.
Friday, September 12, 2003, 5-7pm In a June decision hailed as “revolutionary” by some LGTBQ activists, the Supreme Court ruled that laws criminalizing private sexual activity between same-sex adults were unconstitutional. Not only does this case speak to an individual's right to sexual intimacy, but it also challenges the state's authority to criminalize consensual sex. Needless to say, the outcome of Lawrence v. Texas will have profound implications for LGTBQ people. Join us for a discussion with legal scholars on the potential legal ramifications of what promises to be a landmark decision. Panelists include: Susan Brison, Dartmouth College; Phillip Harper, New York University; Nan Hunter, Brooklyn Law School; and Ed Stein, Cardozo School of Law.Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 7-9pm Graduate Center, Room C201-C202 Co-sponsored by Lesbian and Gay Law Association of Greater New York (LeGaL) and NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Claiming Disability:
New Work at the Intersection of LGTBQ and Disability Studies As part of CLAGS's initial year of Disability and Queerness: Centering the Outsider programming, examining the connections and disjunctions between LGTBQ Studies and the burgeoning field of Disability Studies, we will host an evening of discussions and readings around GLQ's Desiring Disability and Haworth Press's forthcoming Queer Crips. These two new texts, which are among a growing list that have addressed intersections of LGTBQ and Disability Studies, include writings on "crip theory" and queer/disabled performance artists; first-person narratives from gay men with mobility and neuromuscular disorders, deafness, blindness, and AIDS; and, among other things, transgressive social practices, and rheumatoid arthritis. These dialogues between writers and editors will be held in conjunction with a screening of "One Night Sit," a video piece about gay men with disabilities. Participants include Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego; Kenny Fries, poet, writer and disability rights activist; Carmelo Gonzalez, author of Rolling On and co-creator of "One Night Sit "; Ted Hinojosa, co-creator of "One Night Sit"; Raymond Luczak, author of Silence is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness; Robert McRuer, George Washington University; Diana Naftal, co-creator of "One Night Sit"; Ruthann Robson, CUNY Law School; and moderator Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY.Monday, September 22, 2003, 5-8pm Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theatre Co-sponsored by Haworth Press and NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Sandra Faulkner, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University Thursday, September 25, 2003, 7-9pmGraduate Center, Room 9204 Co-sponsored by Metrosource Magazine CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ Stduies
Seminars in the City Discussion will focus on selections from The Disability Rights Movement, (Fleischer and Zames), and other readings TBA. A limited number of the books discussed each week
are available on loan from the CLAGS office on a first-come first-served basis.
Also, To register for the seminar, and to notify the CLAGS office of any additional accommodations you need (ASL interpretation, large print copies, etc.), please contact us at clags@gc.cuny.edu, or by telephone, with a relay operator if necessary, at 212-817-1955. Wednesday, October 8, 7-9pm. This half day interdisciplinary public program will look at the broad cultural and social impact, for good and ill, of legislation and case law that define such terms of ‘family’ and ‘disability’ in LGBTQ contexts. Like all civil rights movements, communities of sexual minorities press for laws and use the courts to advance their rights. Yet in ways that extend far beyond the narrow realm of jurisprudence into the culture and society at large, the consequences of even victories are often as unexpected and troubling as they are productive. These questions will be examined and debated by two interdisciplinary panels. The “Queer Family Law” panel, at 2:00 p.m., will focus on how, from courtrooms to sitcoms, LGBTQ family, marriage, adoption, parenting, custody have been redefined. The panelists are: Roddrick Colvin, NGLTF; Paula Ettelbrick, IGLHRC; Darren Hutchinson, Professor of Law, American University; and moderator Ann Cammett, Family Law Attorney and LGBT Outreach, the Legal Aid Society. And at 4:15 p.m., the “Legal Disabilities” panel will look at the intersections of disability and sexual orientation/gender identity as legal categories, of disability rights discourse and LGBTQ rights discourse, and, among other things, the medical model of disability and the medical model of homosexuality/transsexuality. The panelists are: Lennard J. Davis, Professor of English and Disability Studies and Development, University of Illinois at Chicago; Chai Feldblum, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Beverly Greene, Professor of Psychology, St. John's University; Dean Spade, Founder, Sylvia Rivera Law Project; and moderator David Serlin, Professor of History, Bard Early College. Friday October 10, 2003 2-7pmGraduate Center, Room 9100 (Skylight Conference Room) Co-sponsored by the Transgender Law and Policy Institute This event is made possible, in part, by a generous grant from the New York Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Toni Lester, Associate Professor and Johnson Research Chair, Babson College Thursday, October 16, 2003, 7-9pmGraduate Center, Room 9205 Co-sponsored by Metrosource Magazine All events are free and open to the public, and include panels and discussions such as “Did It Matter? Gay Community News, the LGBT Liberation Movement, and the Politics of LGBT Communities Today,” “The Queer Movement’s Historical Struggles with Diversity: Race, Class, Gender, Disability and Sex Politics 1969-2003” and “How Has the Queer Press Changed Over 30 Years?” Visit www.gaycenter.org for a full schedule of events. Thursday October 16 through Saturday October 18, 2003 The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (208 West 13th Street in New York City) Co-sponsored by CLAGS Institute of Tongzhi Studies Submission Deadline
CLAGS's Student
Travel Award Kathryn Greene, Department of Communications, Rutgers University Monday, November 3, 2003, 7-9pmGraduate Center, Room 9205 Co-sponsored by Metrosource Magazine Institute of Tongzhi Studies Homosexuality in Contemporary China Seminars in the City To register for the seminar, and to notify the CLAGS office of any additional accommodations you need (ASL interpretation, large print copies, etc.), please contact us at clags@gc.cuny.edu, or by telephone, with a relay operator if necessary, at 212-817-1955. Wednesday, November 12, 7-9pm. Lesson Plans: Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching Gender and Sexuality Teaching Judith Butler Strategies for teaching the works of Judith Butler will be discussed by Jami Weinstein, Women's Studies, Vassar College, and Robert Reid-Pharr, English, CUNY Graduate Center Thursday, November 13, 2003, 7:30-9:00pm Dean's Conference Room, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 1260. Please register for this event with the CLAGS office at clags@gc.cuny.edu or 212-817-1955. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU Submission Deadline Martin Duberman and Heller-Bernard Fellowships Saturday, November 15, 2003 All entries must be postmarked by this date or received (if being sent electronically) in the CLAGS Office, Graduate Center, Room 7115, by this time.
Linda Camarasana, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Graduate Center, CUNY PLEASE NOTE: THIS COLLOQUIUM HAS BEEN POSTPONEDTuesday, November 25, 2003, 7-9pm Graduate Center, Room 9205 Co-sponsored by QUNY and Metrosource Magazine Institute of Tongzhi Studies The Formation of Tongzhi Through the Use of Internet in China Columbia University Seminar on Disability
Studies David R. Kessler Lecture in Lesbian and Gay Studies Queering the Crip/Cripping the Queer: Introduction to Queer and Disability Studies Facilitated by Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY; Kim Christensen, Purchase College, SUNY; and Peter Penrose, Graduate Center, CUNY. Readings TBA. A limited number of the books discussed each week are available on loan from the CLAGS office on a first-come first-served basis. Also, Bluestockings, New York’s women’s bookstore, will stock texts used in the course and is offering them to seminar members at a 10% discount. To register for the seminar, and to notify the CLAGS office of any additional accommodations you need (ASL interpretation, large print copies, etc.), please contact us at clags@gc.cuny.edu, or by telephone, with a relay operator if necessary, at 212-817-1955. Wednesday, December 10, 7-9pm. Seminars in the City In the spring of 2004, CLAGS will offer an exciting new Seminar in the City that we have been developing in collaboration with the Audre Lorde Project. The Histories of Activism Seminar will examine LGTBQ histories, current trends, the politics of the movement, and intersections (and perhaps divisions) within broader LGTBQ movements and struggles for racial, social, and economic justice. The meetings will be facilitated by CLAGS's own Jasbir Puar and Sonia Katyal, and ALP's Rosamond S. King, through a series of weekly readings, lectures, interactive sessions, panel discussions, and handouts, and will also benefit from a number of guest speakers-both local and out of town-who have been directly involved in organizing LGTBQ communities of color. Specific goals for Histories of Activism
include: Developing an understanding of the broad historical and
cultural forces of the last 50 years that shaped - and in turn, were
shaped by - the organizing formations we have today; Building a
critical mass of New York-area people who are committed to and
understand the context of LGTBQ organizing by people of color;
Exploring the recent history of LGTBQ activism and organizing in the
US, post-1950, by people of color and their allies; Examining
specific efforts within 1) mono-racial and multi-racial LGTBQ
communities of color to develop analysis of commonalities and
differences among different racial and ethnic communities; and 2)
single-gender and multi-gender efforts; Tracing the development of
some LGTBQ informal networks, organizations, and communities for
people of color in the past four decades, and examining the
relationship of these formations to queer liberation, AIDS activism
and racial justice struggles; Developing an understanding of
coalition-building efforts within LGTBQ people of color communities
(and with other communities), and identifying key challenges and
successes. CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ
Studies Jordan Schildcrout, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 7-9pm CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ
Studies Linda Camarasana, PhD Candidate in English, Graduate Center, CUNY Thursday, February 19, 2004, 7-9pm Beyond Shame: Putting (Radical) Sex Back into Homosexuality Was the "extreme" sex of gay men in the 1970s art or irresponsibility? Has AIDS shame caused an intergenerational rift among gay men? This roundtable discussion will examine how the "oversexed" 70s might be reclaimed. Speakers include Jeffrey Escoffier, Director of Health Media and Marketing for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Amber Hollibaugh, Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE); Patrick Moore, founding director of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, and author of Beyond Shame; Ann Pellegrini, Religious Studies and Performance Studies, New York University; and moderator Carolyn Dinshaw, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University. Thursday, February 26, 2004, 7-9pm Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Gender and Sexuality at NYU. The Graduate Center Distinguished
Lecturer Series Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley. Thursday, February 26, 2004, 6-8pm Sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Women and Society, co-sponsored by CLAGS and the Center for the
Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ
Studies Ruth Vanita, Professor of Liberal Studies & Women's Studies at the University of Montana, and ACLS-SSRC-NEH fellow for 2003-04 Monday, March 1, 2004, 7-9pm CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ
Studies John D'Emilio, Director of the Gender & Women’s Studies Program and Professor of History and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 7-9pm Institute of Tongzhi Studies Monday, March 8, 2004, 6:30 - 8:30pm Black Feminisms Conference Black Feminisms is an all-day conference organized by The Africana Studies Group of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).What is black feminism? What is its significance, and relevance, for the new millennium? These questions and more will be considered at this conference, which is free and open to the public. Keynote speaker Ann Ducille, Chair, African American Studies/Director, Center for African American Studies, Wesleyan University, and author of The Coupling Convention and Skin Trade. Additional participants include Meena Alexander, Tuzyline Allen, Shelly Eversley, Jane Marcus, Leith Mullings, Barbara Omolade, Michele Wallace, Barbara Webb, and more. Friday, March 12, 2004, 8:30am-6:30pm CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ
Studies: Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco, Associate Researcher and Political Science Coordinator, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencas Sociales (FLASCO - Dominican Republic). Polanco will offer a critical perspective on the development of the LGBT community rights movement in the Dominican Republic. The presentation will highlight current advances and challenges in the recognition of human and citizenship rights to sexual minorities from a sociopolitical and legal perspective. Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 7pm-9pm This CLAGS Colloquium is co-sponsored by the
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NYU), Mano a Mano,
QUISGLEYA, Gay and Lesbian Dominican Empowerment Organization (GALDE)
and Las Buenas Amigas Feminist Theories, Feminist Teaching This interdisciplinary roundtable of theorists from CUNY, NYU and other organizations will discuss feminist theories, histories and current practices. Rabab Abdulhadi, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU Carolyn Dinshaw, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU; Keith Vincent, East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, NYU; Jyotsna Uppal, History, Queens College/CUNY; Anthony O’Brien, English, Queens College/CUNY; Patricia T. Clough, Center for the Study of Women and Society, The Graduate Center/CUNY Friday, March 26, 2004, 1-4pm Lesson Plans: Pedagogy Workshop on
Teaching Gender and Sexuality Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Gender and Sexuality at NYU and presented with the generous support
of Joan R. Heller. Institute of Tongzhi Studies Wan Yan Hai Director, Beijing
AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education Monday April 12, 2004 Sponsored by the Institute for Tongzhi
Studies, co-sponsored by CLAGS and the Center of the Study of Women
and Society, CUNY Graduate Center Disability and Queerness: Centering the
Outsider The New Pre-Natal Genetic (PNG)
Testing Technologies available for detection of "disorders" are
constantly being reconfigured, enhanced and refined. Combined with
existing Reproductive Technologies (IVF, IUI, Egg Donation etc.),
PNG tests are marketed to certain reproductive age women with deeply
entrenched social and moral imperatives attached. This panel of
scholars, researchers and activists explore the terrain of new
reproductive possibilities and their implications for the
reproduction of healthy babies. Samuel R. Delany reading from his new
novel, This Short Day of Frost and Sun Monday, April 19, 2004, 6:30pm QUNY Social and Certificate
Presentation Ceremony Please come and join us for refreshments,
mingling, and an official presentation of the IDS certificates by
Alisa Solomon, the Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies IDS Coordinator. CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ
Studies: Duberman Fellow Colloq Ben Singer, Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University, and 2002-2003 Martin Duberman Fellow Monday, April 26, 2004, 7-9pm Institute of Tongzhi Studies Queer CUNY V LaGuardia Community College is hosting on
May 1 The City University of New York's Queer Conference. The
all-day event is free and open to the public. The conference will
feature keynote speaker Commissioner Verna Eggleston of the
New York City Human Resources Administration. Commissioner
Eggleston's agency administers HIV/AIDS, homelessness, and domestic
violence prevention programs as well as public assistance, Medicaid,
food stamps and other social services. Saturday, May 1, 2004 Clubbing on Campus: Safe Zone and Club
Building QUNY Cinco de Mayo Social and Election QUNY will be hosting a social and election
for a new student CLAGS Board member/Co-coordinator of QUNY. Please
come and help us celebrate Cinco de Mayo and exercise your right to
choose a new representative of QUNY to CLAGS. CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ
Studies Santiago Solis, Doctoral student in
Learning Dis/abilities (LD) at Teachers College, Columbia
University. Institute of Tongzhi Studies All events at The Graduate Center are co-sponsored by Continuing
Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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