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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: Queers: Revisiting Latin(o) American Sexualities Fridays, Feb. 10, March 10, April 21, and May 5, 6-8pm Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania; and Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey This series of meetings seeks to analyze the ways in which Latin(o) American sexualities get expressed outside or beyond the script of the “coming out” narrative. Topics of discussion include the following within a Latin(o) American context: “Against the Closet,” “Beyond Homonormativity,” “Bodies of Desire,” and “Non-Corporeal Sexualities, or Queer Phenomenology.” We will study texts by Reinaldo Arenas, Achy Obejas, Manuel Puig, Richard Rodríguez, Piri Thomas, Lourdes Casal, Junot Díaz, César Aira, Gloria Anzaldúa, Sonia Rivera Valdés, as well as critical works by José Quiroga, Emilio Bejel, Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Lázaro Lima, Juana María Rodríguez, among others. We will also include films clips from Frida, Fresa y chocolate, Y tu mamá también, Before Night Falls, and The Kiss of the Spider Woman. To register for the Seminar, which will meet
Fridays, Feb. 10, March 10,
April 21, and May 5, 6-8pm each night at the LGBT Community
Center each evening, 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, February 16 Tyler T. Schmidt, Ph.D. Candidate in English, CUNY Graduate Center Schmidt explores depictions of the
white pervert in a sampling of African American novels of the 1950s,
including William Demby's Beetlecreek and Ann Petry's The
Narrows, and considers how these figures comment on racialized
desire and embody the period's cultural anxieties about racial
integration and the increasingly public identity of the homosexual.
Connecting these literary representations to queer theories of race
and perversion, postwar constructions of the sexual psychopath and
the adolescent child, and critical studies of the African American
postwar novel, this talk aims to document cultural responses to the
convergence of interracial and queer desires, particularly in
African American communities at midcentury. Thursday, February 23 Sex and the Global Economy A panel discussion about new approaches to the intersection of sexuality and globalization. How does global capitalism affect non-Western sexualities? Why is economic development linked with sexual politics? When does globalization foster or prevent sexual possibilities? With examples of research from Asia and Latin America, the panel offers different models for queering globalization. Panelists: Kate Bedford, Barnard College; Svati Shah, New York University; Ara Wilson, Ohio State University & Mount Holyoke College Graduate Center, Room 9206/9207, 7-9pm Tuesday, February 28 Lesson Plans: CLAGS/CSGS Pedagogy Workshop on Teaching Gender and Sexuality Social Science and Psychoanalysis With Muriel Dimen, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Jack Drescher, Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute in New York City; Marilyn Ivy, Anthropology and East Asian Studies, Columbia University; Emily Martin, Anthropology, NYU. Lesson Plans is presented jointly by CLAGS and the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) each semester to discuss issues raised when teaching gender and sexuality in the classroom. The workshop is free and open to educators at all levels. Reservations are encouraged. To reserve space, contact CSGS at gender.sexuality@nyu.edu or 212-992-9540. New York University, 19 University Place, Room 222, 7-9pm Co-sponsored by CLAGS and CSGS, and presented with the generous support of the Heller-Bernard Fund. Thursday, March 2 CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies Finding the Lesbian in the State Margot Canaday, Princeton University Society of Fellows (2005 – 2008) Against a long history of state indifference to lesbianism, the
early cold war military stands out. Here we find a state that
did not ignore, conflate, or subsume lesbianism, but was instead
focused upon it. Actual ambiguity among military officials as
to how to identify lesbianism, however, produced a fascinating
dilemma: How can something be policed when it cannot be defined?
Vague targets require vague tools. As a result of the cold war
military's focus on women, its anti-homosexual apparatus stretched
to include not only sex and gender traits, but emotional ties and
tenuous associations. Tuesday, March 21 CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies The Rise of Transgender-Inclusive Laws: Are Communities Really Creating Trans-Friendly Workplaces? Rod Colvin, John Jay College, CUNY Since 1975 - when Minneapolis became the first city in the country to prohibit discrimination on gender identity of expression - the number of states and local jurisdictions providing protection of transgender individuals has steadily increased. As a result of court rulings, executive orders, statutes and ordinances, 27% of the U.S. population is now covered by transgender-inclusive antidiscrimination employment policy (NGLTF, 2005). Unlike efforts that prohibit employment discrimination based on
other factors, creating a transgender-inclusive workplace requires
organizational changes that include personal, policy, legal, and
medical issues unique to transgender people. As the number of
states and municipalities providing antidiscrimination coverage
continues to increase, it is important to assess how well these
policies are being implemented to create actual
transgender-inclusive work environments. Tuesday, March 28 Film Screening: Enough Man Documentary meets explicit sexuality in Luke Woodward's groundbreaking debut video about body image, relationships, sex and sexuality from the perspective of nine female-to-male (FTM) transmen and their partners. Featuring health educators, college students, sex workers, activists and artists, Enough Man navigates the terrain between objectivity and personal identity, allowing viewers into some of the most personal and rarely discussed areas of transgender life. 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. Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theatre, 7pm Saturday, April 1st Queer CUNY Seventh Annual Conference Exploring and Challenging Our Identities Interactive discussions, workshops, panels, and performances on issues of Academia, Organizing, and Community with CUNY undergraduate & graduate faculty, students, administrators and alumni. Free and open to all. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION Brooklyn College, 12pm - 7pm Student Center 2900 Bedford Avenue 2 train to Flatbush Avenue; Q train to Avenue H To register, or for more information, contact, bclgbta@yahoo.com Thursday, April 6 CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies Digital Signals, Queer Antenna: Television Today Amy Villarejo, Cornell University Graduate Center, Room 9207, 7-9pm Friday, April 28 Film Screening: Gay Sex in the 70s The glory days of gay life in the 70s are often represented simply by Sylvester's anthem "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)," but the era was much more complex than a pop song could ever convey. Director Joseph Lovett, who produced the first in-depth AIDS coverage for national television as a producer with ABC's "20/20," goes back to the people who were a part of a cultural revolution in the making to tell the story. Lovett will attend the screening and answer questions afterwards. Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theatre, 8-9:30pm
Wednesday, May 3 Graduate Center, Skylight Room (9100), 7-9pm Friday, May 12 CLAGS at 15 15 Years of Fostering LGBTQ Studies In honor of its 15th anniversary, CLAGS will bring together key figures in its development—including CLAGS's founder, Executive Directors past and present, and other influential figures—to discuss some of the organization's most important and controversial moments, including: leadership directions; the academy and activism; gender struggles; going global; and race and queer culture. Participants include Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Fordham University; CLAGS founder Martin Duberman; David Eng, Rutgers University; Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race / English Department, Columbia University; former Executive Director Alisa Solomon, Columbia University; Dean Spade, Sylvia Rivera Law Project; Kendall Thomas, Columbia University. Please join us for an afternoon of dialogue, debate, and a CLAGS history slide show. A reception will follow. Graduate Center, Skylight Room (9100), 4-9pm Wednesday, May 17 CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies Queer Regionalism Gayatri Gopinath, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at University of California, Davis Graduate Center, Room 9207, 7-9pm CO-SPONSORED EVENTS Wednesday, February 22 Queer Spirits: A Community Discussion on Alcohol and the LGBT Community Community Forum Please join us for this open forum to discuss the role that alcohol plays in queer lives. We'll explore the historic role that bars have played as an incubating environment for the gay rights movement, the disproportionate problems that queer people have with alcohol, discuss treatment modalities that are affirming for members of our community, and look towards a vision of recovery that is inclusive and transformational. LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St., 7-8:30pm Monday, May 22 Breaking the Barrier: Advocating for LGBT Rights in the Arab World Please join IGLHRC and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice for an evening with Rauda Morcos in conversation with IGLHRC Executive Director Paula Ettelbrick and Astraea Executive Director Katherine Acey.
Graduate Center, Rooms C201/202, 7-8:30pm
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
Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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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.