Thursday- Saturday,
October 3-5:
Crossing National and Sexual
Borders: Queer Sexualities in Latin/o America
-Homoperformances- Mirkala Crystal, Marga Gómez,
Jorge Merced, Carmelita Tropicana, Tito Vasconcelos
-Cadáveres (Homenaje a Nestor Perlongher) [Corpers: A Tribute
to Nestor Perlongher]- Las Yeguas del Apocolipsis (Francisco
Casas and Pedro Lemebel)
-Welcomes- Elena M. Martínez; Oscar Montero; Jill
Dolan, Executive Director, CLAGS
-Border Crossings: Homosexualities and Migration- Arnaldo
Cruz-Malavé (moderator); Brad Epps; Tiffany Ana López;
Frances Negrón Muntaner; Achy Obejas; Rubén Ríos Ávila;
Alberto Sandoval Sánchez
-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Identities and Politics-
Licia Fiol-Matta (moderator); Jorge Cortińas:
"Imperial Desire: The Not So New Gay Multinationalism"; Claudia
Hinojosa: "Cries and Whispers: The LesbianQuest for
Visibility in Mexico"; Luiz Mott: "Intelligentsia
Homossexual e Militância Gay no Brasil" ("Homosexual
Intelligensia and Gay Militance in Brasil"); Graciela Sánchez:
"Jota del Barrio: Challenging Myths" (on Latina lesbian
organizing at the local and national levels); Robert Vázquez-Pacheco:
"Memory and Other Fantasies: The Creation of a Fag" (on
living with HIV/AIDS)
-Sexual Categories in Latin America and in Latino/a Communities
in the United States- Jorge Salessi (moderator); Roger
Lancaster: "Bodies/Politics: Caveats and Second Thoughts
on Sexual Categories"; Norma Mongrovejo: "Un amor
que se atrevió a decir su nombre: el movimiento lésbico y sus
relaciones con el movimiento feminista y el movimiento homosexual
en América Latina" ("A Love That Dard to Speak its
Name: The Lesbian Movement and its Relations to the Feminist and
Gay Movements in Latin America"); Adriana Ortiz-Ortega:
"The Loving Bond: The Reconstruction of Motherhood from a
Lesbian Feminist Perspective"; Christopher Rodríguez:
"Meeting the Needs of Latino lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered
youth"; Helio R.S. Silva: "O espaçăo e repulsăo"
("Transvestite Space in Brazil: Attraction and
Repulsion")
-Crossing Borders: A Reading from PoeSida and Other
Texts- Juan David Acosta, Francisco X. Alarcón, Diana
Bellessi, Francisco Casas, Miguel Falquez-Certain,
Pedro Lemebel, Jaime Manrique, Nemir Matos-Cintrón,
Achy Obejas, Dolores Prida, Robert Vázquez-Pacheco,
Alfredo Villanueva-Collado
-Welcome- Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Chair in the
Humanities, New York University
-Latin American and Latina/o Arts and Literature:
Representations of Desires- Daniel Balderston
(moderator); Diana Bellessi: "La construcción de la
autora: una poeta lesbiana" ("The Construction of the
(Woman) Author: A Lesbian Poet"); Jaime Manrique:
"My Evolution as a Gay Writer"; Eliana Ortega:
"De miedos, prejuicios y silencios en el aire: Radio
Tierra" ("Of Fears, Prejudices and Silences on the Air:
Radio Tierra"); José Quiroga: "Homosexual
Letters: The Gender of Correspondence"; Yvonne
Yarbro-Bejarano: "Queering the Counter-Site: Sexuality,
Transnational Identities and Desire in Performance and Visual Art
by Latinas"
-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Activism- Daisy de
Jesús (moderator); Francisco X. Alarcón; Jane
David Acosta; Carmen Chávez; Luis López Detrés;
Marcelo Feldman; Carmen Vázquez
-Homoperformances: A Roundtable Discussion- José Esteban Muńoz
(moderator); Gonzalo Aburto; Francisco Casas; Marga
Gómez; Pedro Lemebel; Ricardo Ortiz; David
Román; Carmelita Tropicana; Tito Vasconcelos
Tuesday, October 15:
Application Deadline: Scholarly Grants-in-Aid
Friday, October 18, 4:00 p.m.
Gertrude Stein’s Posthumous
Porn
with Wayne Koestenbaum, Yale University
Co-sponsored with the Ph.D.
Program in English
Proshansky Auditorium,
GSUC
Wednesday, November 6, 7:30-9:30
p.m.
Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian-America
with David Eng, Columbia University
Room 207B, GSUC
Thursday, November 14, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
John Patten Memorial Lecture
with Kath Weston, Arizona State; José Muńoz, NYU; Gwen
Turner, writer/filmmaker; Thomas Allen Harris, UC San
Diego; Stanley Siegel, MSW, moderator
Co-sponsored with the Ackerman Institute for the Family
129 East 79th Street,
New York City
Wednesday, December 4,
7:30-9:30 p.m.:
Not Surviving Reading
with Peggy Phelan, New York University
Thursday, December 5, 7:30 p.m.
with Tim Miller in Fruit Cocktail
Opening Night Gala to Benefit CLAGS
Friday, December 6, 7:00-9:00
p.m.:
Fifth Annual David R. Kessler Lecture
A Butch Career: A Memoir
honoring Esther Newton, Purchase
College, SUNY
Introducers: William Leap, American Univerisity; Judith
Hablerstam, UC San Diego; Joan Jett-Blakk, San Francisco
Friday-Monday, December 27-30
Modern Language Assocation Convention, Washington, DC
Cocktail Party
Friday- Sunday, January 3-5
American History Association Convention, New York City
Cocktail Party
Co-sponsored with the Lesbian and Gay Caucus
Wednesday, January 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
"Changing of the Guard" Party
Benefit honoring founding Executive Director Martin Duberman
and welcoming new Executive Director Jill Dolan
2 Horatio Street, Apt. #7J, New York
City
Wednesday, February 5, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Right Bodies, Wrong Bodies, Border Bodies: The
Transsexual Politics of Migration
with Judith Halberstam,
UC San Diego
Wednesday, February 12, 1997
Queer Horror and the Performance of Everyday Life
with Lynda Hart,
University of Pennsylvania
Saturday, February 15, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
College Art Association
Cocktail Party
Co-sponsored with the Gay and Lesbian Caucus
VOID (16 Mercer Street, New York
City)
Saturday, February 15:
Postmark Deadline: Rockefeller
Residency Fellowship in the Humanities
Wednesday, March 5, 7:30-9:30 p.m.:
Velveteen Realness: Transsexual Autobiography, Transgender
Politics
with Ben Singer, Rutgers University
Saturday, March 8, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Queer Pedagogy Conference
-Welcome and Introductory Remarks from Jill Dolan, CLAGS
Executive Director and Harriet Malinowitz, CLAGS Board
Member and Conference Organizer
-Roundtable: What is a Transformative
Curriculum? Discussants: Martin Duberman, lehman College and
GSUC; Berenice Fisher, New York University; Karla Jay,
Pace University; Harriet Malinowitz, Long Island University; Alberto
Sandoval, Mount Holyoke College; Kendall Thomas, Columbia
University Law School; Moderator: Ann Pelligrini, Barnard
College
-Coming Out in the Classroom, Moderator: Stacy
Wolf, George Washington University; Starting a Gay and Lesbian
Studies Program, Moderator: Martin Duberman, Lehman College
and GSUC; Developing Courses in Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies,
Moderator: Ann Pellegrini, Barnard College; Queering the
Core, Moderator: Jay Plum, GSUC; Resources and Materials
Development, Moderator: Sherri Barnes, Long Island University
-Roundtable: Theory and Activism
Inside/Outside the Academy, Discussants: Cheryl Clarke,
Rutgers University; Tamara Jones, Yale University; Peggy
Phelan, New York University; Ben Singer, Rutgers
University; Alisa Solomon, Baruch College and GSUC; Stacy
Wolf, George Washington University; Moderator: Jill Dolan,
GSUC
Saturday, March 15:
Postmark Deadline: The Ken Dawson Award
Wednesday, April 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Sanct Sanctoria: Home, Homelessness, Gay Men, and Privacy
with Phillip Brian Harper,
New York University
Thursday-Saturday, April 3-5
Forms of Desire: The Seventh
Annual Queer Graduate Studies Conference
-Fiction and poetry reading featuring Wayne Koestenbaum and
Sarah Schulman
-Roundtable Discussion "Inside/Outside
the Academy: The Politics of Knowledge in Queer Communities,"
featuring Jeffrey Escoffier, Paula Ettelbrick, Joo-Hyun Kang,
Carmen Vazquez and Maxine Wolfe
-Keynote Address from Jill Dolan
-Performance and Reception featuring
Carmelita Tropicana
-Slide Presentation from Loren Cameron
-Keynote Address from Leslie Feinberg
-HOMO·SONIC Queer Music at CBGB Gallery
Thursday, May 1
Postmark Deadline: The Constance Jordan Award
Saturday-Sunday, May 3-4:
Relatively
Speaking: A Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Families
-Plenary: Paula Ettelbrick, Empire State Pride Agenda; Elias
Ferejajé-Jones, Starr King College/Graduate Theological
Union, Berkeley; Leslie Feinberg, Author, Stone Butch
Blues; Evan Wolfson, Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund
-Family/Movements/Politics- Historical
Insights: John D’Emilio, Lisa Duggan, Barbara Smith, Yvonne
Zylan; Organizing Around Youth Issues: Cianna Stewart, Rea
Carey, Bridget Hughes, Kevin Jennigs; Gender Identity and the
Politics of the Family: Tamara Jones, Paisely Currah, Catherine
Schmidt, Joe Gerteis, Lisa Mulholland; Facing Reality: Legal
Change and LGBT Relationships: Ruthann Robson, Fernando Chang-Muy,
David Chambers, Martine Rothblatt, Ellen Andersen;
-Parenthood- It’s Not So (ap)Parent:
Redefining Parenthood: Charlotte Petterson, Katherine Arnup,
Julia Andino, John Miller; The Lesbian Baby Boom: Maureen
Sullivan, Rachel Epstein, Lonna Malmsheimer, Nancy Polikoff; Parent
Pending: Strategies for Creating Families: Ann Pellegrini, Julien
Murphy, Terry Boggis, Drucilla Cornell; "All Our Kin":
Katherine Allen, Alice Hom, Henry Rubin, Gil Herdt, Sharon Lahner;
LBGT Youth: Lynn Walker, George Ayala, Ricardo Brachio, Andy
Speildenner; LBGT Youth II-Kids Themselves: Terry
Boggis
-Relationships: Relationship Economics: Lee
Badget; Mixed Doubles: Constructing Intimacies: Lawrence Kurdek,
Jeffrey Ringer, Liz Randolph, Juan Battle, Micheel Hunter;
It’s Not Just Their Problem: Domestic Violence inLBGT Familites: Claire
Renzetti, Chris Drum, Vanessa Ferro; Family Challenges for
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: Stresses and Support: Arnold
Grossman, Anthony D’Augelli, The Hetrick-Martin Institute;
Creating SAGE (Senior Action in A Gay Community): A Family for
Lesbian and Gay Seniors:
Mary Ann
Jones, Suzanne Newman, Richard Bannin, SAGE
-Cultural Issues: Beyond the "Brady
Bunch:" Pop Culture and LGBT Families: Josh Gamson, Ajuan
Mance, Kenneth Kidd; Oh I’m Queer Lord: Spirituality in
Generations of Diversity: Renee McCoy, Rebecca Alpert, Zach Jones;
Arab/Near Eastern Family Experiences: Mohammed Bamyeh;
Tainted Blood: SM, Punk Rock, and "Mutilation" in the
Construction of Community: Ben Singer, Leslie Mah, Christopher
Lee; Who Do We Call Family? Families of Choice Through the
Lenses of Race, Class and Gender: Laura Markowitz, Suzanne
Iasenza, Darrell Wheeler; Rites of Passage: Celebrating
Commitment:
Gretchen Stiers, Ellen
Lewin, Suzanna Walters, EJ Graff
Wednesday, May 7, 7:30-9:30 p.m.:
Portraits of Little Girls: Lesbian Representation and Cinema
with Patricia White, Swarthmore College
Tuesday, May 15, 1997
Postmark Deadline: CUNY Student Paper Awards
All events at The Graduate Center are
co-sponsored by Continuing Education & Public Programs, The
Graduate Center, CUNY.
All events in the Graduate Center are wheelchair accessible. Please
contact the security office at the Graduate Center at 212-817-7777
for further details.
Please call the CLAGS office at (212)
817-1955 for addition information or arrangements.