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Sunday, September 12
SEMINARS IN THE CITY
Introducing Queer Theory
with Ann Pelligrini, Harvard University
Monthly sessions led
by CLAGS scholars.
Meets Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Nov. 14, and Dec. 12
A Different Light Bookstore, 151 West 19th Street, NYC
3-5pm. $5 donation per session
For registration information, please call: 212- 642-2924
Wednesday, October 14
CLAGS Colloquium Series in
Lesbian and Gay Studies
The Way You Wear Your Genes:
Sex, Science, and the Politics of Biology
with Evelynn Hammonds, MIT
Room 1500, Grace Building
7-9pm
Friday, October 23
CLAGS SYMPOSIUM
Passing Performances:
History, Evidence, Identification
Symposium on the Sexual Politics of the American Theatre
with Milly Barranger, University
of North Carolina; Jill Dolan, GSUC;
Lesley Ferris, Ohio State University; LeAnn
Fields, University of Michigan Press; Doug Gordy, St. John's University; Billy Harbin,
Louisiana
State University; Kim Marra, University of
Iowa; Noreen Barnes McClain, Southern Illinois
University; Lisa Merrill, Hofstra University; Jay
Plum, GSUC; Robert Schanke, Central
College; Ginger Strand, Princeton University; Bob Vorticky, New York University;
Denise Walen, Vassar
College; Stacy Wolf, George Washington
University; Martin Duberman, Respondent
Reception to Follow
Harold Proshansky Auditorium, GSUC
1-6pm
Wednesday, November 4
CLAGS Colloquium Series in Lesbian and
Gay Studies
Queer Representations: The
Politics of Local to Global Legal Advocacy
with Suzanne Goldberg, Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund and Michael Adams, Staff Attorney at the Lesbian
and Gay Rights/HIV/AIDS Project of the ACLU
Room 202, GSUC
7-9pm
Thursday-Saturday,
November 5-7
CONFERENCE
Queer Middle Ages
Plenary speakers:
Judith Bennett, UNC-Chapel Hill; Michael
Camille, University of Chicago; Carolyn Dinshaw, UC-Berkeley; Everett K.
Rowson, University
of Pennsylvania
Thursday and Friday--Harold
Proshansky Auditorium, GSUC
Saturday--NYU Main Building, Washington Place & Washington
Square
Sponsored by the
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, GSUC, and the Center for
Research in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, NYU; Co-sponsored by The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
SUNY-Binghamton; Ph.D. Program in French, GSUC; The Medieval
Club of New York; Department of English, Queen's College; The
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship; and the Society for
the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Wednesday, December 2
CLAGS Colloquium Series in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Schooling and Sexuality: The
Pedagogical Writings of Gabriela Mistral
with Licia Fiol-Matta, Barnard College
Room 1500, Grace Building
7-9pm
Friday,
December 11
Seventh Annual David R. Kessler Lecture in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Honoring Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, GSUC
with testimonials by José
Muñoz, New York University; Cindy Patton,
Emory University; and Michelle Wallace, City
College and GSUC
Reception to Follow
Harold Proshansky Auditorium, GSUC
7-10pm
Wednesday, February 3
CLAGS Colloquium Series in
Lesbian and Gay Studies
A Queer Itinerary:
Transnational GLBT Studies, Ethnographic Destinations and Ethnic
Landscapes in the Late Twentieth Century
with Martin Manalansan, New York University, and David
Eng, Columbia University, Respondent
Room 202, GSUC
7-9pm
Saturday, February 13
SEMINARS IN THE CITY
Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Transgender
Histories, Cultures, Identities
with Martin Manalansan,
New York University
Monthly sessions led by CLAGS scholars.
Meets Feb. 13, Mar. 13, Apr. 10, and May 8
A Different Light Bookstore, 151 West 19th Street, NYC
3-5pm. $5 donation per session
For registration information, please call: 212- 642-2924
Monday, February 15
Application
Deadline for the Rockefeller Residency Fellowship Program in the Humanities and the Martin
Duberman Fellowship
Wednesday, February 17
CLAGS
Colloquium Series in Lesbian and Gay Studies
The Invention of Lifestyle: Reflection on Queer Modernity
with Eric Clarke, 1998-99 CLAGS Rockefeller Residency Fellow
Room 202, GSUC
7-9pm
Wednesday, March 3
CLAGS Colloquium Series in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Love and Work: The Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester
A slide/lecture with Julia M. Allen, Sonoma
State University
Room 1500, Grace Building
7-9pm
Thursday-Saturday, March 11-13
CONFERENCE
Crossing Borders '99: Latino/a and Latin American Lesbian and Gay
Testimony, Autobiography, and Self-Figuration
Emilio Bejel, University of Colorado-Boulder;
Cherrie Moraga, Stanford University; Norma
Mogrovejo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Sylvia Molloy, New York University;
Rubén Ríos-Ávila, Universidad de Puerto Rica; David
Román, University of Southern California; Alberto
Sandoval, Mount Holyoke College; Yvonne
Yarbro-Bejarano, Stanford University
Crossing Borders conference. Crossing
Borders ‘99: Latino/a and Latin American Lesbian and Gay
Testimony, Autobiography, and Self-Figuration will focus on
autobiographical writing, testimony, and self-figuration by Latin
American and Latino/a lesbians and gay men, inviting artists and
scholars from different geographical areas and diverse academic
fields to share and discuss their works and lived experiences.
The conference is made
possible through a generous bequest from the Michael C.P. Ryan Fund,
which also contributed to the 1997 Crossing Borders
conference.
Narratives of self-figuration
have figured prominently in the development of gay and lesbian
identities in the United States. These stories —
"histories" and "herstories" —
characteristically include topical chapters, for instance, on a
tortured (often lonely) adolescence, strained family relationships,
the need for role models, and the invariably liberating experience
of coming out. The notion of a newly-defined gay and lesbian family
and community has played a significant role in this empowering
narrative of progress. On the other hand, contemporary works by gay
men and lesbians, powerfully cutting across traditional disciplines,
are showing the complex local inflections of what is often perceived
as monolithic, hegemonic — and at times reductive and exclusive
— notions of gay identity and community. Such works take a
critical look at the familiar narratives of the liberationist
tradition. For example, at CLAGS, the theoretical and ideological
implications of the economic, political, and cultural tensions that
attend the intersection of global and local conditions for lesbians
and gays have been fruitfully discussed at various colloquia. Most
recently, such tensions were central topics of discussion at the Queer
Globalization/Local Homosexualities conference in April.
Crossing Borders ‘99 will
consider the tension between narratives of the liberationist
tradition and their subsequent critiques across the disciplines. The
conference will focus on the way that texts and performances of
self-figuration by Latino/a queers reflect, inflect, misread,
translate, or reject the traditions of self-representation
associated with the development of contemporary queer identities in
the United States. Crossing Borders hopes to offer a space
where diverse texts of Latina/o queer self-figuration may convene,
if only to leave their mark before the certainty of future
questionings and reconfigurations.
Oscar Montero
CLAGS Board Member
and Conference Co-Chair
Conference funded by The
Michael C.P.Ryan Estate
Wednesday, April 7
CLAGS Colloquium Series in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Family Ties: Exploring the Histories of African American
Lesbians and Gay Men Within Black Communities
with Barbara Smith, 1988-99 CLAGS Rockefeller
Residency Fellow
Room 202, GSUC
7-9pm
Thursday-Saturday, April 22-24
CONFERENCE
Local Politics and Global Change: Academics and Activists Thinking
about a Queer Future
Conference Schedule
FRIDAY, APRIL 23
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Queer Publics: Transforming Policy, Scholarship, and Politics
Moderator: Cathy Cohen, Yale University
Leslie Cagan, Ad Hoc Committee for an Open Process
Jorge Cortinas, playwright
Ruthie Gilmore, University of California, Berkeley
Robin Kelley, New York University
Reception to follow
SATURDAY, APRIL 24
9:00-11:00 a.m.
Queer Politics and the Racial/Gendered State
Moderator: Joo-Hyun Kang, Audre Lorde Project
Jacqui Alexander, University of Connecticut
Ricardo Bracho, playwright
Jeffrey Edwards, Roosevelt University
Barbara Smith, writer, activist, CLAGS 1998-99 Rockefeller Fellow
11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Luncheon Roundtable 1: Migration/Immigration
Organizers:
Licia Fiol-Matta, Barnard College
Chandan Reddy, Columbia University
Luncheon Roundtable 2: Violence and Policing
Organizers:
Jose Munoz, New York University
Alan Yang, Columbia University
(Luncheon Roundtable Fee; $7)
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
The Future of Human Rights
Moderator: Ali Miller, Columbia University
Sunila Abeysekera, Human Rights Documentation Center, Sri Lanka
Gail Pheterson, International Committee for ProstitutesU Rights
Scott Long, International Gay and Lesbian Rights Commission
Carole Vance, Columbia University
4:00-6:00 p.m.
The Capitalization of Politics
Moderator: Alisa Solomon, GSUC, CUNY, and The
Village Voice
Amber Hollibaugh, health and human rights activist
Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University
Jose Quiroga, George Washington University
Graciela Sanchez, Esperanza Center
Saturday Evening Performance
8:00 p.m.
Meow Mix
MC: Carmelita Tropicana, National
Songbird of Cuba
Brian Freeman, playwright, performer, co-founder of Pomo Afro Homos
A sneak preview from the new show, Salad of the Bad Cafe with Stacey
Makishi, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver
$10 at door, first come, first served
Sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) of The
Graduate School and University Center, CUNY; Cosponsored by the NYU Faculty Working Group on Queer Studies
Other Sponsors: Africana Studies and the Institute of
African-American Affairs, The Albert Schweitzer Chair in the
Humanities, American Studies Program, Asian/Pacific/American Studies
Program and Institute, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, The
Humanities Council, and Office of the Deans of the Faculty of Arts
and Science and Office of the Dean, Tisch School of the Arts, New
York University.
This conference is made
possible through the generous support of the Rockefeller Residency
Fellowships Program in the Humanities.
GSUC and NYU
Sponsored by a generous grant
from the Rockefeller Foundation
Co-sponsored by CLAGS and NYU Faculty Working Group on Queer
Studies
Tuesday, June 1
Application Deadline for Undergraduate and Graduate 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.
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