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All events on this page are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is not required unless otherwise stated in the event description.
CLAGS strives to make its events accessible. ASL interpretation can be provided for any CLAGS event if requested 10 or more working days prior to the event. All events in the Graduate Center are wheelchair accessible. We ask that attendees refrain from wearing 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.
CLAGS welcomes proposals for events relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and scholarship. Seminars in the City: SICK: A Seminar on the Relationships Between Society, Sexuality, and Disease Fridays, October. 13, November. 10, and December 8, 2006; 6 – 8 pm This series of open seminars considers the social construction and social politics of diseases – how they enter our consciousness; how they enter our bodies; how they enter our culture -- in terms of gender, sexuality, and sex. Particularly, we'll look at diseases like HIV/AIDS and syphilis that have historically been closely associated with the sexual (and political) margins of society. Also, we will consider poorly understood and vaguely defined diseases like hysteria and ADD that are often portrayed in very gendered terms. And finally, we'll consider the sexual moralism and fear that surrounds discourses of health and pathology. Readings for the seminar will span a variety of disciplinary and literary sources.
Ananya Mukherjea is assistant professor of women's studies and
sociology at the City University of NewYork, College of Staten
Island. She is also a board member of CUNY's Center for Lesbian and
Gay Studies (CLAGS).
Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theatre,
7pm Friday, September 15 Sex Wars: Past, Present, and Future Pornography, "obscene" art, reproductive freedom, LGBT rights, sex education, AIDS and child sexuality -- these issues formed the battleground for the "sex wars" that convulsed the nation throughout the 1980s. Today, many of these concerns continue to shape political and cultural debates about sex, gender and citizenship -- if in unexpected manifestations. AIDS and sex trafficking are global issues that interest right-wing evangelicals as much as feminists and queers. Gay marriage is said to play a key role in national elections. But where exactly are the frontlines of this decade's "sex wars"? Who are the players? And what can activists and scholars learn from the checkered history of sex panics past?
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary republication of Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter's
Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, join the authors and other activist-scholars
for a discussion of these and other questions. This
event is co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Gender and
Sexuality at NYU
Skylight Room (9100), Graduate Center, 4 pm Rafael de la Dehesa, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the College of Staten Island, CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206, 7pm Thursday, October 19 Que(e)rying Islamophobia: Race, Sexuality and Imperialism Discourses of race, gender and sexuality have always served an important ideological function within imperialist projects and the current phase of American imperialism, characterized by the War on Terror, is no exception. Given contemporary geo-political context, this contemporary imperialist project requires the deployment of increasingly explicit forms of Islamophobia. 'Queer rights' have become the latest front in this purported battle between Civilization (liberal modernity as embodied by 'the West') and barbarism (Islam). This panel will bring together scholars and activists to discuss these and other issues pertaining to the nexus - historical as well as contemporary - between Islam, sexuality and imperialism. Panelists include: Saadia Toor, College of State Island, CUNY; Sahar Shafqat, St . Mary's College of Maryland; Ayaz Ahmed, author of "Queer and Muslim in post 9/11 New York"; and Kourosh Shemirani, co-founder of Qiam, the Queer Iranian Alliance. Graduate Center, Room 9206/7, 6-9pmThursday, October 26 Black, White & Queer: How Same-Sex Interracial Couples Negotiate Racial Difference Amy Steinbugler, Temple University: Graduate Center, Room 9207, 7pm Thursday, November 9 Cate Fosl, University of Louisville: “Fairness in the Bluegrass: Building an Intersectional LGBT Movement in the U.S. South,” and Carla Wallace, Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression: “Movement-Building in the Bible Belt: The View from the Trenches,” Moderated by Blanche Wiesen Cook, CUNY Graduate Center Room C205, Graduate Center, 7pm Friday, November 17 Kessler Lecture Honoring Adrienne Rich Proshansky Auditorium, Graduate Center, 7pm Please RSVP to reserve your space: clags@gc.cuny.edu. Tuesday, December 5 CLAGS Presents Lesson Plans: An LGBTQ Pedagogy Workshop With Dagmar Herzog, Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center
Teaching the History of Sexuality in the 20th Century, or, "What's So Sexy about Fascism? And Why Is it Important to Think About That in the Classroom?" Using the historical example of Nazi Germany, this workshop will show students how sexual politics were expressed through savage but sophisticated antisemitism, how there were pro-sex and anti-sex elements in Nazism, what cartoons and paintings and texts one can use in the classroom, how the subject forces us to think in a whole new way about how politics works--for example, via voyeurism, identifications, and aggressions--how hugely open to debate among students the subject is, and what different interpretations there can be about what it all might mean. We will also consider how many prejudices and assumptions people have to this day about the subject of sex under fascism and how to address and work with those in the classroom setting, and how understanding this one example deeply helps us to think more clearly about other historical contexts as well. Finally, we will reflect on the challenges of telling hetero and homo stories together. Co-sponsored by CLAGS and NYU’s CSGS, and presented with the generous support of the Heller-Bernard Fund. Presented in conjunction with the Gay & Lesbian/Queer IDS Concentration. 7 – 9 PM, room 9206/7 of the CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, December 15 “Rainbow’s End” CLAGS & Frameline Film Screening With the advent of same sex marriage, homosexuals have achieved near-equality in much of Europe. Everything seems rosy, so why should they keep on fighting? “Rainbow's End” is a revealing and entertaining multinational journey from the center to the borders of Europe. From parades and protests in Warsaw and Krakow to touching personal stories with social, religious and political insights, the film moves from street activism to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. A starting point for any timely and relevant discussion regarding the future of lesbian, gay, bi and transgender people within Europe and throughout the world. At the end of the rainbow, gay and lesbian existence reverberates in an intimate and moving way within a tense field of major political issues: newly established Christian and Islamic fundamentalisms, the curtailing of human rights, issues of asylum and right-wing radicalism. “Rainbow's End” suggests that there remains a great deal for the LGBT community to accomplish in the new Europe. This event is co-sponsored by Frameline Distribution. Frameline is the nation’s only nonprofit organization solely dedicated to the exhibition, distribution, promotion, and funding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender media arts. Elebash Hall, Graduate Center, 7pm \ All events on this page are free of charge and open to the public. Pre-registration is not required unless otherwise stated in the event description. All events at The Graduate Center are co-sponsored by Continuing
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All events in the Graduate Center are wheelchair accessible. Please
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