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Starting June 2: Seminar in the City: Queer Migrations
CALENDAR 1996-97
 

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.

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