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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.
Saturday, August 29 "Sexualities: Choice & Identity"
OPENING FILM: DOSTANA directed by Tarun Mansukhani
SHORTS & DOCS I: a program of experimental shorts & powerful docs exploring Queer Sexuality & Identity
SPECIAL SCREENING: LET’S TALK, directed by Ram Madhwani
PAPER TO FILM I: An Evening with Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla: From Book to Screenplay, Screenplay to Screen, “Ode to Lata”
*In order to receive $3.00 CLAGS discount please use the promotion code: 91104 at the shopping cart check out cart where you’ll be prompted to apply any promotion codes. For full schedule of the festival and screenings please visit: www.engendered.org
Thursday, September 3 LGBTQ Studies Colloquium Series In Juvenal’s ninth satire (130 C.E) a male sex worker provides pleasure to an effeminate, sexually submissive husband while fathering two children with the man’s sexually frustrated wife. This poem about an unconventional Roman household was omitted from most 19th century editions. In the 20th century, most commentaries assumed, explicitly or implicitly, the poet’s condemnation of homosexual behavior. Taking a fresh look at the text through the lenses of queer theory, Broder offers a reading of the poem as a campy exploration of social, cultural, and legal conditions that provide opportunities for unconventional formations of sex, gender, and kinship. Michael Broder, PhD candidate, Classics Department, CUNY Graduate Center
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Tuesday, September 10 CLAGS/FRAMELINE Film Screening
The Believers is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, gender and religion. Built around the world’s first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir’s dilemma – how to reconcile their gender identity with the widespread belief that changing one’s gender goes against the word of God.
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Co-sponsored by Frameline, the leading nonprofit educational media distributor solely dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film and video with a collection of more than 200 titles for colleges, K-12, schools, libraries, and community groups.
Monday, September 14
CLAGS-IRN Seminars in the City The Internet embodies both the promises and challenges of queer organizing and empowerment in the Middle East. The anonymity and invisibility it provides can be useful as well as harmful in a region that has historically overlooked same sex contact in privacy while privileging heterosexuality through family and kinship ties in public domain. Sub-topics of our discussions will include debates on media literacy (e.g., technology use as citizenship versus erotic practice); private, public, and cyber spaces; queer and social movements in the region; and local queer representations prior to the advent of the Internet and Western queer identities.
Presenter: Serkan Gorkemli, English Department, University of Connecticut, Stamford
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Please stop by the CLAGS office to pick up a free Seminars Packet. Call prior to arrival at 212-817-1955. The attendance of past seminars is not required.
Thursday, September 24 LGBTQ Studies Colloquium Series Drawing on extensive archival research, historical data, original photographs, interviews with key activists, and more than a thousand news articles, Amin Ghaziani’s presentation analyzes four major lesbian and gay demonstrations between 1979 and 2000. Ghaziani places these demonstrations in their cultural context focusing on the political currents that prompted the protests, and the role played by internal dissent within (as well as between?) the participating organizations. Ultimately, Ghaziani concludes that infighting can contribute positively to the development of social movements, and that the debates over the marches helped define what it means to be gay in the United States. Amin Ghaziani, author of Dividends of Dissent currently teaches at the Princeton University Society of Fellows.
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Friday, September 25 Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop Anna Kirey is a 2009 fellow in Columbia University's Human Rights Advocates Program. She has been active in women's and human rights organizations for almost 10 years, currently a senior adviser to Labrys, an organization focused on LGBT issues in Kyrgyzstan, which she cofounded and served as an executive director. She has been a consultant to the Sigrid Rausing Trust of the Open Society Institute and the Sexual Rights Initiative of the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review.
Anna Kirey, co-founder and senior adviser, Labrys, in Kyrgyzstan;
Presented by New York University, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, the Network of East-West Women. Cosponsored by CLAGS.
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
Thursday, October 1 LGBTQ Panel Discussion This panel explores contemporary queer literature and culture with an emphasis on form. Situating North American literary and theoretical texts in a diasporic frame, the panelists will analyze forms of literary expression through the generic lenses of language, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and race and will also consider richer and stranger forms of difference. One of the central questions raised and discussed will be: How do representations of difference impose formal restrictions upon or create new formal possibilities for a text? Taking up contemporary work on futurity, the body, motherhood, sovereignty, and visibility and voice, these presenters ask what difference it might make for contemporary queer studies to make questions of form and craft central. Panelists: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ph.D. candidate, English, Africana Studies and Women's Studies, Duke University; Sarah Dowling, Ph.D. candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Ph.D. candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania Moderator: Jennifer Williams, Assistant Professor of English, Michigan State University Graduate Center
Monday, October 5 CLAGS-IRN Seminars in the City The Caribbean is stereotyped as heaven for tourists and hell for sexual minorities. This session will explain how these two mistaken beliefs are connected - and will describe some of the exciting activism happening within the region, including specific strategies, successes, and challenges. It will use the recent development of the Caribbean IRN subregion to discuss how the internet can help build local and regional movements. Finally, we will discuss how the diaspora and others positioned outside of the region can create their own movement, support work within the region, and respond to stereotypes of and boycotts against the Caribbean. Presenters:Angelique Nixon, Department of Social & Cutltural Analysis, New York UniversityLesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Friday, October 9 LGBTQ Studies Panel Join us to welcome Martin Duberman, the founder and executive director of CLAGS (1986-1996), for a conversation based on his recently published, Waiting to Land, A (Mostly) Political Memoir. An award winning historian, biographer, playwright and gay rights activist, Duberman will focus on the struggle for the founding of CLAGS, and an exploration of what it means to be Queer in post-Stonewall America. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear and engage with this living icon of queer scholarship and activism who believes, to quote from his latest book, “The essence of gayness is having grown up, or tried to, without the motivating, certifying power of established social norms—and hence skeptical of their validity. To be gay is to be a political saboteur.”
Moderator: Graduate Center
Tuesday, October 13 Planning Meeting Goals:
Please join the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in planning the Fall 2010 2-day Festival and the implementation of the Spring 2010 series of events.
Facilitator: Sarah Chinn, Executive Director, CLAGS Graduate Center
Light Refreshments will be Served
Wednesday, October 14 LGBTQ Studies Pedagogy Workshop This workshop will explore the responsibilities of the queer studies teacher in hyperassimilationst gay and straight culture. How might queer classrooms be intentionally framed as separatist in this context, and what does separatist queer pedagogy look like? The workshop will be discussion based, so please come ready to participate. Matthew Brim, Assistant Professor, English, College of Staten Island, CUNY Graduate Center
Cosponsored by the Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), New York University
Friday, October 16 English Department Michael Montlack, editor of the essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), will be discussing the book and its focus on the special bond between gay men and their divas. There will be readings by Michael (on Stevie Nicks), Wayne Koestenbaum (on Anna Moffo), Mark Doty (on Grace Paley), Jason Schneiderman (on Liza Minnelli), Christopher Murray (on Margaret Dumont) and Richard Tayson (on Helen Reddy).
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Cosponsored by the Phd Program in English.
Tuesday, October 20 The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies invites you to a back-to-school mixer. Come share a glass of wine with fellow students, meet our staff, pick up information on our fellowships, awards, prizes, and events. The mixer will be followed by the LGBTQ Film Screening: Our Family. Light Refreshments Served Graduate CenterRoom 7115 (CLAGS Office) 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Tuesday, October 20
LGBTQ Studies Film Series K. P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro, Directors Set in Tamilnadu, India, Our Family weaves together excerpts from
Nirvanam, a solo theatrical performance by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and the
lives of three generations of transgendered females. Aasha, Seetha and
Dhana, a family bound together by ties of adoption, belong to the
community of Aravanis (also known as hijras in some parts of India).
The performance by Chakravarthy and the daily lives of the three family
members bear witness to the tumultuous journey towards a reinvented
selfhood, a journey fraught with violence, exploitation, affection and
courage. This award winning film allows the viewer to reinterpret
Nirvanam, a Sanskrit term with religious connotations, as an act of
liberation and transformation-from male to female. For more information
about the film visit:
http://ourfamily2007.wordpress.com
Cosponsored by the Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), New York University
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LGBTQ Film Series Through intimate testimonies from Black women victims/survivors, commentaries from acclaimed African-American scholars and community leaders, archival footage, spirited music, dance, and performance poetry this award winning documentary unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual assault, the use of rape as a weapon on homophobia, and the healing in African-American communities. For more information on the film please visit:
http://www.NOtheRapeDocumentary.org
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Director
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Thursday, October 29
Rachel Zolf, Trish Salah and Robert Glück This series of talks by major poets, titled after the works of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, will explore the intersection of contemporary poetic practice, queer theory and pedagogy. Too often today, statements on poetics and their manifesto-like style have been moralistic or prescriptive discourses. By contrast, this series will attempt a Kinsey-like survey of actual poetic practice--what writers actually do, in the writers' own words--in the process queering the manifesto, inventing new terms for poetics discourse, and emphasizing queer writing and poetics.
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Monday, November 2 CLAGS-IRN Seminars in the City The varying histories and amalgamation of diverse racial and ethnic groups in Latin America provides a vast terrain for scholarship and research in sexuality. While it is impossible to draw a single picture of Latin American sexuality that encompasses such a broad multinational area, we can draw from a few representations to discuss underlying themes and issues. We will explore Latin American sexualities through the lens of sexuality, gender, race and class from colonization to the current era. This seminar is intended to utilize sexuality as a way to expand our understanding of Latin America as well as draw from Latin America a greater understanding of sexuality as a central component of citizenship.
Presenters: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Please stop by the CLAGS office to pick up a free Seminars Packet. Call prior to arrival at 212-817-1955.
Friday, November 6 8:30AM - 6:30PM
Opening Remarks:
For Registration and Conference information, go to:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/wgp/archive.html
Thursday, November 12
18th Annual David R. Kessler Lecture Sarah S. Schulman, playwright and novelist, will deliver the eighteenth annual David R. Kessler Lecture in LGBTQ Studies. The Kessler Lecture and Award is intended to honor a scholar, artist or activist who has, over a number of years, produced a substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of GLBTQ Studies. Sarah Schulman is a native New Yorker. Her novels, nonfiction books, journalism and plays reflect people whose points of view and experiences are rarely represented in the mainstream arts. They include the novels Rat Bohemia, and Girls, Visions and Everything, the play Carson McCullers, and the nonfiction books Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, as well as the forthcoming Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences and The Gentrification of the Mind. An active Participant Citizen, Ms. Schulman has been involved in foundational movements for social change including Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, MIX: NY Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival (co-founder), Lesbian Avengers (co-founder), Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, ACT UP Oral History project, www.actuporalhistory.org (cofounder.) Her awards include a Guggenheim (playwrighting), Fullbright (Judaic Studies), Revson Fellow for the Future of New York City, two American Library Association Book Awards (Fiction and Nonfiction), Stonewall Award for Contributions Improving the Lives of Lesbians and Gays in the United States and a finalist for the Prix de Rome. She is Professor of English at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island and a Fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
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Friday, November 13
CLAGS is proud to co-sponsor the screening of two films Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement and Fig Trees at the 33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival. The screenings will be held at the American Museum of Natural History.
5pm FIG TREES 7pm
American Museum of Natural History
For all Mead programs enter at 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
Monday, November 16
This year CLAGS offers you the unique opportunity to engage Sarah Schulman in an intimate follow-up to her 2009 Kessler Lecture “Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences.” Linda Villarosa will add her star power to the event as conversational host.
Space is limited so please RSVP to clagsdevelopment@gc.cuny.edu
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Tuesday, November 17
AMY KING, WAYNE KOESTENBAUM, R. ERICA DOYLE This series of talks by major poets, titled after the works of Eve Sogofsky Sedgewick, will explore the intersection of contemporary poetic practice, queer theory and pedagogy. Too often today, statements on poetics and their manifesto-like style have been moralistic or prescriptive discourses. By contrast, this series will attempt a Kinsey-like survey of actual poetic practice--what writers actually do, in the writers' own words--in the process queering the manifesto, inventing new terms for poetics discourse, and emphasizing queer writing and poetics.
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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