CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies
Friday, October 15

"The Impact of the Internet on the Tongzhi (LGBT) Movement in China"

Chung To, Chairperson, Chi Heng Foundation

Chung To is the founder and chairperson of Chi Heng Foundation, a charitable organization based in Hong Kong.  Founded in 1998, Chi Heng and its predecessor has been promoting equality for LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender) through political advocacy, public education, media campaigns and community building.

4-6pm, Graduate Center, Room 8301

This event is co-sponsored by The Institute for Tongzhi Studies.
 

Submission Deadline

CLAGS's Student Travel Award

November 1, 2004

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.
 

CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies
Thursday, November 4

"Exposures: American Gay Men's Autobiography and Edmund White's Work"

Tomasz Basiuk, American Studies Center, Warsaw University in Poland

Basiuk will present from his work-in-progress which compares Edmund White’s autobiographical fiction and his overt life-writing to memoirs written by gay men, including Andrew Tobias, Paul Monette, Mark Doty and Daniel Mendelsohn. The comparison concerns rhetorical strategies used to foster notions of self-identity. It is intended to question the argument that American gay men’s autobiographies are best understood as coming-out stories which are variants of the conversion narrative. These writers’ cultural work may be more adequately captured by the several connotations of the word ‘exposures’: the emotional and aesthetic risk-taking which accompanies self-exposure, the interplay between direct mimesis and manipulation of the subject that inheres in the term’s photographic meaning, and the inescapably fragmented vision of what constitutes an appropriate account of a gay life.

7-9pm, Graduate Center, Room 9207

Queer Inventions
Tuesday, November 9

The Queer Inventions series is sponsored by The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.

A conversation between critic Mary Anne Caws and avant-garde poet  Nicole Brossard.

Nicole Brossard, a leading figure of Québec post-modernist and feminist writing, has published more than thirty books of poetry, essays, and novels since 1965.  She co-founded and co-directed the literary magazine La Barre du Jour, co-directed the film Some American Feminists, and co-edited the acclaimed Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec, first published in 1991 and then in 2003.

Mary Anne Caws is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  She is the author of many volumes on art and literature as well as editor and co-translator of the Yale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry.

7-9pm, Poets House, 72 Spring Street, NYC
$7 admission, Free with CUNY ID

Sponsored by The Center for the Humanities, co-sponsored by CLAGS and Belladonna, a forum for diverse feminist experimental poetics.
 

Lesson Plans: Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching Gender and Sexuality Advocacy in the Classroom
Thursday, November 11

Join us a week after the presidential elections for a workshop on the role of instructors' beliefs and political commitments in their classrooms.

Speakers will include Gaston Alonso, Political Science, Brooklyn College; and Alisa Solomon, English and Theatre, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Please register through the CLAGS office at (212)81701955, or clags@gc.cuny.edu. Co-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU.

7:30-9:30pm, Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207

InterseXions
November 12-13

"InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads"  is a  two-day conference that will bring together visual artists, historians, critics and curators with an interest in queer arts, from a wide geographic and cultural spectrum.  According to outgoing co-chair of the Queer Caucus, Maura Reilly, (Sackler Curator of Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum), the gathering “will provide a forum for the voices and images of contemporary practitioners in all media, and will spotlight contemporary developments in art-historical research, criticism and theory, museums and galleries.” The conference will also feature performance events, artists’ talks, and an associated exhibition.

“InterseXions” is intended to foster exchange of ideas about historical and contemporary arts among scholars, artists, curators, and other arts personnel, and to encourage cross-fertilization among disciplines and between writers and artists, theory and practice. Conference chair James M. Saslow (CUNY Professor of Art History and Theatre) notes the timeliness of the event’s focus: “The artistic and historical culture of the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer communities once again finds itself at a crossroads: established paths are worn away or petering out, while new challenges and contexts have opened up, and new directions must be charted.”

For a program and schedule of panels click here [.pdf form]

Conference registration fee is $35 ($10 for students and persons of low income). 

Friday and Saturday, November 12 and 13.
at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets)
New York, NY 10016

Co-sponsored by The Queer Caucus for Art, the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center,  The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, and Steven J. Goldstein, M.D.

Queer Ethics: Libidinal Management in the Pedagogical Space in Chinese Literature
Saturday, November 13

Featured Speaker: Chi Ta-wei  紀大偉

Chi is an award-winning novelist, editor, and critic, whose works primarily feature queer subjects.  He was one of the pioneer scholars who introduced readers in Taiwan to the notion of “queer” and the emergence of queer theory.  His current research interests include Chinese gay literature, queer ethics, and queer citizenship. Chi is also known for his "queer" science fiction that parodies heterosexual normality. Queer Archipel-ago (1997) and Queer Carnival (1997), also edited by Chi, showcase Taiwan’s localized queer discourses and literary practices, and provide annotated bibliographies.

4:00 to 6:00pm
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Dean’s Conference Room
721 Broadway, 12th Floor

This event is free and open to public, followed by a light reception and open discussion on Chinese literature.

Sponsored by The The Institute for Tongzhi Studies. Co-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Women and Society and The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

For more information, visit our website: http://www.tongzhistudies.org or Email us: info@tongzhistudies.org.

Bodies and Landscapes of Control in the Neoliberal City
Tuesday, November 16

How do increasing levels and new forms of policing and surveillance of the queer landscape of the city negatively affect the communities of desire and the counter/subaltern cultures constituted in and through those spaces themselves?  In these newly gentrified spaces of hyper-surveillance and control, especially after 9/11, which bodies of race, class, gender, and/or the erotic become forbidden or obsolete?  Which new and subversive configurations of bodily experience, if any, become viable in the safety and security of this new landscape?  Panelists include: Edgar Rivera-Colon, Department of Puerto Rican and Latin American Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Melissa Ditmore, Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Women and Society and Network of Sex Work Projects; Lisa Duggan, American Studies, NYU; Manolo Guzman, Sociology, Marymount College; Jasbir Puar, Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University. 

7-9pm, Graduate Center, Room 9204/9205

Co-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center; The Department of Sociology, Marymount Manhattan College; and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU.

 

CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies
Wednesday, December 1

"'Velvet is Very Important': Madge Garland's Life in Fashion"

Lisa Cohen, Independent Scholar, and recipient of the CLAGS Fellowship, 2001-2002.

British fashion icon and expert Madge Garland is one of the women profiled in Cohen's current book-in-progress about three queer lives in the first part of the twentieth century.   In this talk, Cohen discusses Garland's work in the fashion industry (she was an early editor of British Vogue, and England's first Professor of Fashion); considers her place in the history of modernism; and explores the relationship between the exercise of taste and the practice of discretion.

7-9pm, Graduate Center, Room C197

Queer Inventions
Thursday, December 2

The Queer Inventions series is sponsored by The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.

A panel discussion with artists, poets, and writers who take apart and build anew notions about sexuality and the body.  Panelists include Kathy High, a media artist, curator, and teacher who has taught at various universities around the New York metro area for over fifteen years; D.A. Powell, the author of two books of poetry, Tea and Lunch and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University; Shelley Jackson, author of Patchwork Girl; and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, critic, poet, artist, and distinguished lecturer at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

7-9pm, Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall
$7 admission, Free with CUNY ID

Sponsored by The Center for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by CLAGS, The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU, and Poet's House.
 

For more information contact blackmasculinities@yahoo.com  

To register for the Black Masculinities conference, please call (212) 817-8215 or email continuinged@gc.cuny.edu. Provide your name, email, institutional affiliation, phone number and mailing address.

9am-6pm, Graduate Center

For Preliminary Rooms and Schedule listing visit: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/IRADAC/

This event is sponsored by the Africana Studies Group, Institute for Research in the African Diaspora and the Caribbean (IRADAC), The Continuing Education and Public Programs of The Graduate Center, CUNY; the CUNY History Program; the CUNY Masters in Liberal Arts Program.  Co-sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS). 

Wednesday, February 9
The Program in Religious Studies and The Center for Religion and Media, New York University present
 

Values Talk: God, Gays, and Democracy in America Today: A Roundtable Discussion on Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Media
 

with
Elizabeth Castelli
Associate Professor of Religion, Barnard College; author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture-Making (Columbia UP, 2004), Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991) and, as a member of the Bible and Culture Collective, The Postmodern Bible (Yale UP, 1995)

Esther Kaplan
Journalist and community activist; frequent contributor to The Nation; author of With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House (New Press)

Richard Kim
Journalist for The Nation; PhD candidate in American Studies, New York University

Janet R. Jakobsen
Director, Center for Research on Women, Barnard College; co-author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (NYU Press, 2003, with Ann Pellegrini), Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics (Indiana University Press, 1998)

Moderated by Ann Pellegrini
Associate Professor, Religious Studies Program and Performance Studies Department, New York University; co-author of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (NYU Press, 2003, with Janet R. Jakobsen) and co-editor of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (Columbia University Press, 2003)

This event is free and open to the public.  King Juan Carlos I Auditorium is wheelchair accessible.  Please contact ann.neumann@nyu.edu for more information

New York University, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South
7pm-9pm

Reception to follow
 
Co-sponsored by CLAGS, The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU, and The Office of LGBT Student Services, NYU
 

Thursday, February 17th
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ Studies

"C'était du spectacle!"  An oral history of Montréal's male to female transsexual and transvestite artists, 1955-1985.  

Viviane Namaste,  Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montréal.

7pm-9 pm, Graduate Center, Room C202
 

March 1, March 22, April 5, and April 26
Seminars in the City
Representing Sexuality, Performance, and the Law

This Spring CLAGS will offer an innovative new Seminar in the City organized and moderated by CLAGS board member and Fordham Law Professor Sonia Katyal; and Outten & Golden lawyer and BABAE (www.babaehelp.org) activist Carmelyn Malalis. 

Sonia Katyal, Carmelyn Malalis, and guest speakers will lead four sessions on the interactions between sexuality, media studies, and the law. This seminar will seek to explore how current trends in media studies and popular culture can also help inform the future of legal discourse, both academically and politically. Topics will include: identity formation and its treatment in legal discourse, both nationally and internationally; gender performativity and its relationship to traditional, identity-based gay and lesbian civil rights discourse; the "queer eye" in the media with respect to intellectual property and the marketplace of expression; and the emergence of new social movements through technological change and activism.

In this seminar, we will look at the ways in which the courts--in cases involving the Pink Panther movement, the Gay Olympics, Gay Pride parades, ACT-UP and transgender self-expression--have both enabled and suppressed queer movements and expression. Using legal commentary, pop culture, and critical essays and fiction, we will come to understand the various ways the law governs queer expression, activism, and identity. Special attention will also be paid to brainstorming on the future of activism after Lawrence and the election.

Please click here for Seminar schedule.

To register for the Seminar, which will meet March 1 (Room 101), March 22 (Room 301), April 5 (Room 101), and April 26 (Room 301) from 6:00-8:00pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street,  please contact the CLAGS office at 212-817-1955.  You may also email your registration request, along with any special needs you may have, to clags@gc.cuny.edu.
 

Thursday, March 10
Lesson Plans: Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching Gender and Sexuality: "Teaching Popular Culture"

Anna McCarthy, Cinema Studies, NYU, and Jason King, Recorded Music, NYU

7pm-9pm, NYU, 19 University Place, Room 222
 

Monday, March 14
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ Studies

Toward a History of Gay Kinship in the United States: The Case of Child Adoption in the Early Twentieth Century

Ellen Herman, University of Oregon

At a time when same-sex marriage is a visible national issue and many lesbians and gay men are choosing to become parents, we still know surprisingly little about how lesbians and gay men experienced their family ties in the past. This talk will sketch out the shadowy history of adoptions by same-sex couples during the early part of the twentieth century and explore what these stories add to gay history as well as the history of adoptive kinship and family life.

7pm-9pm, Graduate Center, Room 9206
 

Monday, March 21
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGTBQ Studies: Duberman Fellow Colloquium

Colonel Roble's Intimate Joy: Transgender Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution

Gabriela Cano, Professor of History at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico

Cano's project is a cultural history of Amelio Robles (previously known as Amelia Robles), a transgendered officer in the revolutionary army led by Emiliano Zapata.  The study offers both a biography of Robles that highlights his self presentation – through  pose, gesture, and photography – and a study of his contested public image before and after his death. The work goes beyond Robles' specific life history and engages the rhetoric of gender in the public discourse of nationalism in 20th century Mexico. Cano has published extensively and is co-editing a forthcoming collection, Gender in Postrevolutionary Mexico, to be published in the United States, and a multivolume history of women in Spain and Latin America, to be published in Spain.

7pm-9pm, Graduate Center, Room 9204
 

Thursday, March 24
Queering Psychoanalysis:  The Relational Turn

Academics read Freud and Lacan to understand psychoanalysis.  But who are the practitioners reading?  This panel offers an introduction to the psychoanalytic thinking of contemporary American clinicians.  

7pm-9pm, Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207

Moderator:  Jack Drescher, MD

Panelists:

David Schwartz, PhD:  Reparative Therapy for a Pathological History, or How Psychoanalysis Might Keep You Queer, Even If You Have Inner Conflict

Ann D'Ercole, PhD: Feminist and Queer Contributions to Relational Psychoanalysis

Eric Sherman, MSW:  A Clinical Vignette:  Big Boys Don't Cry

Discussant: Catherine Silver, PhD

Participants' bios:

Ann D'Ercole, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology, Teaching Faculty and Supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, and co-editor of Uncoupling Conventions: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Lesbian and Gay Couples and Families; Jack Drescher, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy and author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man; David Schwartz, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst in private practice in Westchester and Manhattan and a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society; Eric Sherman, MSW, Faculty member and Supervisor at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center and the Contemporary Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, author of Notes from the Margins: The Gay Analyst's Subjectivity in the Treatment Setting, and in private practice in New York City and Montclair, N.J. ; Catherine Silver, PhD, Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, psychoanalyst member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, author of  books and articles around issues of gender, sexuality and culture from a cross cultural perspective.

7pm-9pm, Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207
 

Friday, March 25
CLAGS Distinguished Lecture

The Mourning of Enjoyment: Race, Sex and Citizenship in the Death Penalty State

Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, Columbia University and founding Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University.  

In this lecture, Thomas will provide a cultural analysis of U.S. death penalty law, focusing on the trial and appellate records in an Oklahoma capital case against Wanda Jean Allen, a black lesbian who was executed in January, 2001.  The lecture will also explore the productive possibilities, and the necessity, of projects that articulate the concerns and methods of critical race theory, queer theory, and psychoanalytic social theory.  

7pm, Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall 
 

Wednesday, April 13
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBT Studies

Transgender Transgressions or Transgender Transcendence?  Examining Caribbean Contexts

Rosamond S. King, English, Long Island University

7pm-9pm, Graduate Center, Room C204
 

Saturday, April 30, 2005
Queer CUNY VI
"Echoes of Truth through the Voices of Our Youth"

Join CUNY LGBT Students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends at the Sixth Annual Queer CUNY conference.  Workshops and activities include: religion and politics, sexual creativity, identities and definitions, queer majors and minors, issues for transgender students, HIV/AIDS and safe sex, homophobia and racism, collaborative queer CUNY mural, and more. 

Keynote Speaker:
Alan Van Capelle, Executive Director, Empire State Pride Agenda

Alan Van Capelle became the Executive Director of Empire State Pride Agenda and Empire State Pride Agenda Foundation in April 2003. Prior to joining the Pride Agenda, Van Capelle worked for nearly ten years for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  At 30 years old, Alan is one of the youngest LGBT leaders in the nation. A native of Commack, Long Island, he received a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1997. 

11am-10pm
NAC Building 
City College of New York, CUNY
138th Street and Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

11:00-11:45 Registration
11:45-12:00 Welcome
12:00-12:30 Icebreaker
12:45-2:00 First Workshop Session
2:15-3:15 Borough Reports
4:00-5:15 Second Workshop Session
5:30-6:15 Keynote Address
6:15-6:45 Plenary
6:45-7:00 Closing Remarks
7:00-8:00 Dinner
8:00-10:00 Dance 

For more information call SAGA at 212-650-7000, ext. 21001 or email saga@ccny.cuny.edu. 

Hosted by the City College of New York Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) with support from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)  and the Diversity Projects Development Fund of CUNY

Monday, May 2
CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBT Studies

Epistemology, methodology and ethics in the investigation of Dominican sexuality

Tony De Moya
Profesor de Antropología Sociocultural de la Sexualidad Dominicana, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and Technical Assistant to the Executive Director, Consejo Presidencial del SIDA (COPRESIDA)

7pm-9pm, Graduate Center, Room C201
 

Friday and Saturday, May 6-7, 2004 
Transgender Politics, Social Change and Justice

CLAGS will host the national Transgender Politics and Policies Conference in spring 2005. This conference aims to provide a venue for strengthened networks, the creation and sharing of research and resources, and needed dialogues between grassroots activists, legal scholars, and LGBT community members.  Through two-three days of plenary sessions, breakout groups, working roundtables, film and performance art, CLAGS’s Transgender Politics and Policies Conference will create a venue for very diverse groups of activists, attorneys, and scholars to come together and learn about other experiences and perspectives of different transgender communities.

For more information, click here.

Graduate Center, Rooms and Schedule TBA
 

Friday, May 20th
Both Sides: Black Women, Black Men, HIV and the Down Low (DL), a Community Dialogue.

Everybody’s got an opinion on the DL but we will have them all in one room:

-Sharon, a black woman who married a DL man
-Keith Boykin, black gay author of Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
-Tokes Osubu, Executive Director of Gay Men of African Descent
-Jonathan Gray, Ph.D.candidate, City University of New York

Come hear folks from both sides confront this hot button issue. Admission is free. For more information please call 212-828-9393 x138

Sponsored by Life Force: Women Fighting AIDS, New York AIDS Coalition,National Association of People With AIDS, Straight Spouse Network, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Africana Studies Group, New York State Black Gay Network.

7pm-9pm, Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium 

June 23-26
Feminist Theory and Music 8
City University of New York, Graduate Center and New York University
23-26 June 2005 New York City

The eighth meeting of the biennial conference Feminist Theory and Music will take place on 23-26 June 2005 at the CUNY Graduate Center (23 & 24 June) and New York University (25 & 26 June). Farah Jasmine Griffin will present this year's keynote address, "Midsummer's Night in Harlem, 1943: A Cultural Critic Listens." The opening plenary, moderated by Suzanne G. Cusick, features Farzaneh Milani and Elizabeth Wood, and the closing plenary, moderated by Nancy Rao, features Kyra Gaunt, Nadine Hubbs,  Niloofar Mina, and Ruth Solie. Excerpts from two new documentaries, Soul on Soul: The Story of Mary Lou Williams and Packin' Up: Marion Williams and the Philadelphia Gospel Women, will be shown. The conference includes performances of works by Linda Dusman, Pauline Oliveros, William Osborne, Milica Paranosic, Ursel Schlicht, Alice Shields, Karen Tanaka, and Frances White, and two concerts of electroacoustic music, to be held at Columbia University and New York University.

Information on registering for the conference is available by visiting http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/music/ftm8/ or by calling (212) 817-8215. Please note that you do not have to pay the additional $10 registration fee listed on the registration form.  Registration is $120; $60 for students (with photocopy of valid ID), seniors, independent scholars and artists.  Registration for a single day is $30 ($15 students/seniors/independents). Please direct inquiries to ftm8.conference@nyu.edu, and please visit our website for the entire program and for updates: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/music/ftm8/

Feminist Theory and Music 8 Program Committee: Suzanne G. Cusick and Ellie M. Hisama (co-chairs), Farah Jasmine Griffin, Marion A. Guck, Tomie Hahn, Elizabeth Hoffman, Anahid Kassabian, Martha Mockus, Annie Janeiro Randall, Martin Scherzinger, and Sherrie Tucker

Feminist Theory and Music 8 is made possible by the Baisley Powell Elebash Endowment, Ph.D./D.M.A. Program in Music, and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY; the Department of Music, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University; and Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture.
 

Click here for the syllabus and information on obtaining course readings: Documenting Queer Community Histories