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All events on this page are open to the public. With the exception of major conferences as noted, all CLAGS events are free of charge. 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.
Thursday, February 4 CLAGS LGBTQ Colloquium Series In 2004, the Workers Party administration of President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva launched “Brazil without Homophobia,” a program calling for the adoption of public policies to combat homophobia across federal ministries. This presentation examines the agenda implemented by the Brazilian Ministry of Education. It will review major measures taken through educational courses, seminars, publications of teaching resources, evaluations, and national awards, as well as the political relations and tensions among these actors in the design and implementation of policies.
Presenter: Graduate Center
Friday, February 5 LGBTQ Studies Colloquium Series Katz talks about expanding from
studying sexual history to creating
sexual art, reinventing himself, and
coming out as a visual artist at age
72, and he exhibits and discusses
examples of his sensual paintingdrawings
of male nudes. A wine and
cheese reception is included.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Monday, February 8 Panelists: Pape Mbaye -a Senegalese refugee in the US Selly Thiam -CLAGS IRN Coordinator, None on Record Diadji Diouf -prominent HIV/ AIDS activists and Cary Johnson -Executive Director of IGLHRC Graduate Center
Tuesday, February 9
LGBTQ Panel Discussion 2010 marks the 100-year anniversary of the birth of French writer/philosopher/ provocateur Jean Genet. To commemorate the artist’s life and work, CLAGS is pleased to welcome an esteemed panel: Edmund White, acclaimed writer and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Genet: A Biography (1994); Dr. Wayne Koestenbaum, poet, cultural critic, and Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center; and Annette Michelson, art critic and founding editor of the journal October, translator of the French avant-garde, and Professor Emerita of cinema studies at New York University.
Panelists: Graduate Center
Thursday, February 11 CLAGS Lesbians in the 70s Series The panel will discuss the production of lesbian space and place in the 1970s, both urban and otherwise and within and without lesbian feminism, with a reception to follow from 8-10pm. We hope to touch on such topics as the roles of concepts of public and private, the politics, experiences, and uses of visibility and invisibility, and shifts in lesbian-feminist, butch-femme, and other dynamics throughout this period.
Moderator: Jen Gieseking
Graduate Center
Monday, February 22 CLAGS-IRN Seminar in the City What strategies have activists taken up to combat legal and extra legal measures against sexual minorities in Africa? This seminar will raise the pressing set of issues facing sexual minorities in various African countries and also explore the ways in which local, regional, and international organizations have sought to make interventions. Presenter, Cary Johnson, (IGLHRC), and veteran activist leads this seminar. Presenter: Cary Johnson, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Wednesday, February 24 This series of talks by major poets,
curated by Tim Peterson and titled
in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
explores the relationship between
contemporary poetic manifesto, practice,
queer theory and pedagogy.
Graduate Center
Thursday, February 25 GENDER AND SEXUALITY SEMINAR Lisa Jean Moore Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Purchase College, will discuss her new book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. In Missing Bodies, Moore, with Monica Casper, explores both the visibility and the erasures of the body in the twentyfirst century. Moore argues that a new politics of visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies—celebrities, for example—and to the near invisibility of others, such as people with AIDS, illegal immigrants, and civilian casualties in Iraq. Moore and Casper argue that hierarchies of privilege are established through cultural instances of disappearances and inclusions of the physical body and describes some of the social, medical and economic consequences. Presenter: Lisa Jean MooreProfessor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Purchase College Graduate Center
Thursday, February 25 CLAGS LGBTQ Colloquium Series “Plausible Optimism” addresses film form and narrative, with an eye to asking how embodied feeling might provoke new social attachments, particularly friendship. Two films, By Hook or By Crook and Brokeback Mountain are used to address friendship, culture and political optimism. Both films are queer class texts, and each promises something quite different in the look, tale and feel of friendship in contexts of antiqueer constraint and class deprivation. With this comparison, this talk seeks to renew interest in friendship as embodied feeling, social form and undersung political resource. What can friendship’s optimism do for cultural politics that critical bleakness and romantic melodrama—in life as in film—cannot?
Presenter: Lisa Henderson Graduate Center
Friday, February 26 Graduate Center
Reception immediately to follow
Thursday, March 4 Gender and Sexuality Seminar Jonathan Metzl, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan and Director of the Program in Culture, Health and Medicine will discuss his book Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonderdrugs. The book provides a cultural history of psychotropic medications from the 1950s to the 21st century. Metzl argues that Freudian and heteronormative notions of gender inform both popular and biologic approaches to depression. Seminar attendees will also be introduced to Metzl’s new work Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia.
Graduate Center
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society, the PhD program in Sociology and CLAGS
Monday, March 8 Seminar in the City In March 2010, the Commission on
the Status of Women will undertake a
fifteen-year review of the implementation
of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the outcomes
of the twenty-third special session of
the General Assembly. This seminar
considers “Asia” as the site of this
conversation and discusses issues of
gender and sexuality in development
and human rights.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Tuesday, March 9 CLAGS LGBTQ Film Series Juggling Gender Politics, Sex and Identity: A Portrait of Jennifer MillerAnd
A new video with Jennifer Miller fifteen
years later
A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard. Miller works as a performance artist, circus director, clown and as the “bearded lady” in one of the only remaining sideshows in America. In public she is often mistaken for a man, an experience she handles with the wit and intelligence that characterize her stage performances. Juggling Gender explores the fluidity of gender and raises important questions about the construction of sexual and gender identity.
Screening to be followed by Q&A with
Tami Gold and Jennifer Miller
Special juggling act by Jennifer Miller
Graduate Center
Thursday, March 11 CLAGS Lesbians in the 70s Series
Friday, March 12
2010 sees the fiftieth anniversary of ground-breaking films such as La Dolce Vita, Breathless, and L’Avventura. These and other films of the period brought with them a revolution in cinematic language that reconfigured time and space, and transformed perceptions of reality. The aim of the Symposium is to revisit this past through the lens of aesthetics and design. The papers will consider how a new aesthetics and politics of style were born and how they redefined cultural, gender, social class and age boundaries. Fashion is always a barometer of the transformations that affect individuals and societies, their taste, lifestyles, image, behavior, politics of style.
Graduate Center
Segal Theater
Co-sponsors and Co-organizers:
Tuesday, March 16 CLAGS LGBTQ Panel Discussion Hardcore porn—both the straight and
gay varieties—entered mainstream
American culture in the 1970s as the
sexual revolution swept away many
of the cultural inhibitions and legal
restraints on explicit sexual expression.
Yet without the intense and extended
battles over obscenity and pornography
during the 1950s, the sexual revolution
of the 1960s and 1970s would never
have taken place. The increasing
acceptance of pornography during the
sixties and seventies played a significant
role in the sexual lives of gay men, even
more than it did among comparable
groups of heterosexual men. It helped
to legitimate visual representations of
homoerotic images and gay sex as well.
Bigger Than Life author Jeffrey Escoffier
and special guests from the gay porn
industry will talk about the origins of gay
porn cinema.
Graduate Center
Segal Theater
Wednesday, March 17 CLAGS Lesbians in the 70s Series
Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of nonmonogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in the past ten years—this event celebrates her life and work with clips of past work, a Q&A and a reading from her forthcoming book, Hammer! Making it in Sex and Movies
Hosted at NYU
Thursday, March 18
CLAGS LGBTQ Panel Discussion Athenian vase-painting is one of our best
sources of information about pederasty,
the system of erotic relations between
adult men and adolescent boys
prevalent in ancient Greece. Prof. Lear
will examine the way vase-painters
portrayed pederastic desire and what
these images tell us about ancient views
of sex and sexuality.
CUNY Graduate Center
Tuesday, March 23
CLAGS LGBTQ Colloquium Series Diagnoses of madness—in real life and in art—are inextricably entwined with social and cultural beliefs about gender and sexual behavior. The portrayal of operatic characters as mad relies on contemporaneous understanding of mental illness, as often resulting from, or expressed in transgression of normative gender roles or heteronormativity, and this may apply either to male or female characters. Megan Jenkins explores such transgressions— with regard to recent reconceptualizations of madness within Disability Studies—in three theatrical music works: Arnold Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung (1924); Kurt Weill’s ballet chanté, Anna- Anna (1933), also known as The Seven Deadly Sins; and Igor Stravinsky’s neoclassical opera, The Rake’s Progress (1951).
CUNY Graduate Center
Saturday, March 27
Be a part of the most exciting lgbt book event in the U.S. Join authors, poets, publishers, university presses, and the entire reading and writing community in this diverse spectacular of words, images, and talent. With over 8,000 square feet of exhibitions, events, mingling, and meeting authors and readers like yourself.
CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, April 9 CUNY Graduate Center Room 9207 7-9 PM
Tuesday, April 13
CLAGS LGBTQ Film Series Equality U is a feature-length documentary following a group of 33 young activists on the Soulforce Equality Ride, a first of its kind, two-month, cross-country tour to confront anti-gay discrimination policies at 19 conservative religious and military colleges. It is a story of a group of young people struggling to stand up for what they believe is right. Can this small group of activists sow the seeds of dialogue as their bus rolls down the highway? How will the road change them? For the Riders that identify as both Queer and Christian, how will the journey challenge or transform their faith? And what happens to the outed gay students they encounter and then leave behind?
CUNY Graduate Center
Thursday, April 15
Gender and Sexuality Seminar In Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism
in Queer Times, Puar, Associate
Professor of Women’s and Gender
Studies at Rutgers University, utilizes
transnational feminist and queer theory
as well as poststructural and Deleuzian
theory to examine the deployment of
‘homonationalisms’ in US politics. Puar
links recent neoliberal politics of sexuality,
in which gay Americans are enfolded
into the nation-state through legal
recognition (marriage and reproductive
practices), with the production of populations
of Orientalized terrorist bodies.
She argues that ‘proper’ gay citizens are
produced in contrast with those who are
perversely sexualized and Orientalized,
particularly the “terrorist look-a-likes—
especially Sikhs, Muslims, and Arabs—
who are cordoned off for detention and
deportation.” Terrorist Assemblages
addresses racial profiling, Islamophobia
in queer politics, and the Abu Ghraib
photographs, among other topics; it is
recommended as background reading
for those attending the lecture.
Graduate Center
Thursday, April 15
CLAGS honors Joe Wittreich, and
generous supporter of CLAGS, on his
retirement from the English Department.
Chris Freeman, Paul Monette’s
authorized biographer and recipient
of the Monette-Horwitz Trust’s annual
award for distinguished work, will offer
a talk followed by reception.
CUNY Graduate Center
Thursday, April 22
CLAGS LGBTQ Colloquium Series with Noor Al-Qasimi This paper is concerned with queer
subjectivities and the development of
cyber technologies in the UAE. An
example of an increasingly visible
alternative narrative articulated within
the Arab Gulf States is the boyah
identity (butch identity), which has
gained increased visibility in recent
years on social networking sites such
as Facebook. This talk questions the
extent to which web-based expressions
of queer subjectivities operate with
reference to the parameters set by the
hegemonic order and how they are
challenged and/or tolerated. Parallel
to this analysis, the talk examines how
the UAE’s dilemma of maintaining its
global image has been thrust upon the
post-oil generation. The national moral
panic toward queerness is in effect a
response to this group’s endowment
with “autonomy” and its attendant
shouldering of the demands of selfregulation. Graduate Center
Saturday, April 24
CLAGS Lesbians in the 70s Series Please join us at the Lesbian Herstory
Archives where we will dig into select
Black Lesbian artifacts from the
Lesbian Herstory Archives collection,
specific to the lives of Black Lesbians
in the 1970s. A black-lesbian-specific
reading of unpublished papers, slide
show of images, short excerpts of
documentary film, and guided tour
specific to the black herstory of the
collection, will allow for discussion and
aid to the beginning of independent
research. Free and open to the public.
Black lesbians present in the 70s are
encouraged to attend and bring items
to donate to the collection.
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Tuesday, May 4
LGBTQ Film Series What is a drag king? What is the Drag King Conference? Simply speaking, a drag king is a woman who dresses in a male persona for theatrical purposes. A Drag King Extravaganza, however, reveals that being a drag king is not so simple. During the last ten years this performance art has exploded into a complex and fascinating movement which centralizes around an annual drag king conference called the International Drag King Community Extravaganza (IDKE). Within this conference, gender, sexuality, race and ability are explored through indepth discussions and provocative performances. This documentary provides a reflexive look at “what is a drag king” and a personal journey inside their conference.
Graduate Center
All events on this page are open to the public. With the exception of major conferences as noted, all CLAGS events are free of charge. 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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