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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.
Wednesday, January 30 This event is co-sponsored by CLAGS, with the LGBT Community Center, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and SAGE (Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders) Horrified by turning 70, historian Jonathan Ned Katz, organized this presentation to think out loud, in public, with others, about LGBTQ aging and how, together, we can counter the negative associations of growing old. With Katz, Terry Boggis, Thomas Glave, and Amber Hollibaugh. LGBT Center
Thursday, February 7 Roy Wagner, PhD Arbel will analyze the national security discourse that dominated recent LGBT pride parades in Jerusalem, and Wagner will offer a micro-political study of resistance practices of sexual and ethnic minorities in Israel/Palestine. Both presentations were given in the last Queer theory conference in Tel Aviv University as part of the panel "Queer Perspectives on 40 years of Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories." Room 9204, Graduate Center, 7-9 PM
Starting Monday, February 11 See our Seminars in the City page for more information.
Friday, February 15 CLAGS/FRAMELINE Screening Series Some genuinely wild women take center stage in Paris Poirier's vivacious and historical documentary about Maud's, the longest-running lesbian bar in the United States. This venerable San Francisco establishment opened in 1966, when lesbians were still very much in the closet. Maud's flourished throughout the '70s and '80s, enjoying an international reputation as a meeting place for lesbians and their friends, only to be shut down in 1989 as a result of the community's shifting priorities. Provocative personal stories of coming out, sexual politics and softball are mixed with flashbacks to the Hollywood gay bars of the '40s and the vice raids of the '50s. The vintage photos and personal interviews (with Mary Wings, Judy Grahn, Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin, Sally Gearhart, JoAnn Loulan and Rikki Streicher, to name a few) are an invaluable window into lesbian history. A witty and informative look at cultural evolution in the making, Last Call at Maud's salutes and preserves an era in history when bars were the only cultural institutions in the lesbian community. 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. Segal Theater, Graduate Center, 7-9 PM
Friday, February 29 CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies Jeffrey Bussolini Room C197, Graduate Center, 7 PM
Friday, March 7 CLAGS LGBTQ Studies Panel Moderator: Jack Drescher Former Surgeon General, Richard Carmona recently testified how political pressures to distort science impeded his office's efforts to educate the public about stem cell research, sex education, emergency contraception, global climate change, prison mental health services, and secondhand smoke. This panel reviews how politicized, special interest groups go about distorting scientific findings. It also offers ways in which LGBT professional communities and organizations can respond when confronted by political efforts to misrepresent scientific findings and research. Room: 9204/9205, Graduate Center, 7-9 PM
Wednesday, March 12 CLAGS LGBTQ Studies Panel Moderator: Jasmina Sinanovic Panelists: Dr. Lucky, the only burlesque performer with a PhD; Tigger!, winner of the first ever “boylesque” category at Miss Exotic World; Jo Boobs, voted Best Teacher in Arts and Entertainment in The Village Voice in October 2007; and Velocity Chyaldd, the producer of Bad Ass! Burlesque. Drawing from their collective experiences performing, producing, and studying burlesque, the panel will address some of the following questions: Can one define neo-burlesque? Is it a coincidence that neo-burlesque flourishes as the civil liberties are stripped away? How does neo-burlesque fit within the changing image of New York and its struggling downtown scene? Is burlesque just another name for stripping or is it an art form that challenges conventions? Can one call neo-burlesque a queer art form? What is its connection to the drag scene? How do burlesque monstrous beauties question the concepts of beauty and normativity? These are just some of the possible questions that will be addressed at this event. Talk will be followed by performances and Q&A session. Segal Theater, 7-9 PM
Wednesday, March 19 CLAGS/FRAMELINE Screening Series From the maker of Zero Patience and Lillies... Eisenstein, Mishima, Frida Kahlo and other dead artists are uncannily summoned on a mission to probe the policing of public toilets in Ontario. They discover that, since 1981, hundreds of men have been arrested, victims of video surveillance. The key to all this seems to be a portrait of Dorian Gray. Part news story, part surreal comic invention, John Greyson's Urinal is at the cutting edge of new gay cinema: passionate, playful, complex and sharp. 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. Rooms 9206/9207, 7-9 PM
Friday, March 28 CLAGS LGTQ Book Reading & Discussion By Margaretta Jolly Dr. Jolly will read from and discuss her new book In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism published this year by Columbia University Press. The book is a lively story of second-wave British and American feminists, revealed through their public and intimate letters. Dr. Jolly analyzes letters between mothers and daughters, lesbian love letters, email novels, memoirs and feminist activist communities on the Web. Co-sponsored by Women’s Studies Certificate Program Graduate Center (Room TBA), 12-2 PM Segal Theater, 7-9 PM
Thursday, April 3 CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies Brooke Campbell This dissertation seeks to destabilize categories of interpretation endemic to contemporary debates on sex work. While a queer reading of what feminists are saying about prostitution serves as one bookend to this project, an archival investigation of what prostitutes are saying about their own experience serves as the other. Bringing the category of class back into feminism— and into a queer project that remains curiously silent about both class generally and prostitution specifically— I ground an alternate, queer genealogy of sex work in the theoretical recuperation of prostitution as a specific relation under capitalism. 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. Room C197, Graduate Center, 7-9 PM
Friday, April 18 CLAGS LGBTQ Studies Panel With Andre Lancaster (Freedom Train Productions) and Djola Branner (Hampshire College) The panelists will address the Black LGBT protagonist's place on the American stage. Why write Black LGBT s/heros? How much of the producer's mind and the commanding spector of a white, straight male protagonist is in yours when writing? What insight into humanity (the African disapora?) can a Black LGBT protagonist add that a character of a different ethnic/sexual identity could not offer? Co-sponsored by Freedom Train Productions, a theater collective that promotes new work written by up-and-coming Black playwrights. For more information visit: http://freedomtrainproductions.org Rooms 9204/9205, Graduate Center, 7-9 PM
Tuesday, April 29 CLAGS Colloquium Series in LGBTQ Studies Nomvuyo Nolutshungu Sexuality rights are rapidly becoming the focus of international human rights agencies. This talk looks at sexuality rights through the lens of global governance and argues that a distinct politics of sexuality is taking shape in the global political arena—a place far different than the state in which sexuality in normally negotiated. Who decides, when the rules are constructed in a global forum? How have international/global human rights agents conceived of and evaluated sexuality? Is there a dominance of values among global actors? If so, what values? In order to answer some of these questions, I shall use the case of the development of the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to examine the role of international actors in shaping the politics of sexuality. I argue that one can map actor values and debates onto its outcome document; making who does international human rights considerably coextensive with who governs. Room C197, Graduate Center, 7-9 PM
Thursday, May 1 Cosponsored by the Palm Center Join the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies for an evening to celebrate the life of historian and activist Allan Bérubé. Allan Bérubé was an independent historian and community activist, author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II. He was the recipient of the prestigious genius grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Allan’s presence as a valuable and inspirational member of the community will truly be missed. Please join us for this event to honor his legacy and celebrate his life. Speakers: Sarah E. Chinn, Executive Director, CLAGS (Moderator) Thomas Glave, SUNY Binghamton Aaron Belkin, The Palm Center Jonathan Ned Katz, OutHistory Skylight Room, Graduate Center, 7-9 PM
May 8-10 The second international conference on GLBT Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections. See the ALMS Conference 2008 page for more info.
Friday, May 9 The International Resource Network (IRN) was created to connect researchers from both academic and community bases across the global in areas related to diverse sexualities and genders. The International Resource Network acts as an international clearinghouse with contact information, summaries of holdings and work, web links to regional projects. Additionally, the IRN fosters new and creative work through the development of regional working papers and journals. Featured speakers will include: Paisley Currah (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Alisa Solomon (Columbia University), Maria Belen Correa (Lactrans), and Sybille Ngo Nyeck (IRN-Africa/UCLA) Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to: irn@gc.cuny.edu or CLAGS, at 212.817.1955 Skylight Room, Graduate Center, 6pm
Friday, May 30 Presented by CLAGS and VISUAL AIDS This one-day conference will explore the pasts, presents, and futures of AIDS art, AIDS activism, and AIDS prevention, and the connections between them. In a series of panels and a culminating roundtable, AIDS/Art/Work will look at the often productive, sometimes uneasy relationships between art inspired by AIDS and HIV/AIDS prevention. Cosponsored by the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Room 9206/9207, Graduate Center, 9:30AM-5PM
Friday and Saturday, March 7 - 8 This is a CLAGS Co-sponsored event The joint conference has solicited paper proposals on the theme "POP! Musical Excess and Artifice," and in addition to featuring the recent work of graduate students, will also include presentations by two keynote speakers: Nadine Hubbs, Director of the LGBTQ Studies program at the University of Michigan, and Philip Auslander of Georgia Institute of Technology. Check-in starts at noon on Friday, March 7, 2008 in the Music Student Lounge on the third floor of the Graduate Center located at 365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets in New York City. The conference will reconvene Saturday morning, March 8, 2008 at Columbia University, located at Broadway and West 116th Street. Presentations will explore issues of music's "inauthenticities" and excesses, ranging in topic from late 17th-century attacks on operatic virtuosity, to Wagner's notorious damnation of "effects without causes," to the rock vs. pop genre binary and hip hop's appeal to "keep it real." For more information, including the program contact Megan Jenkins at clags@gc.cuny.edu or 212-817-1955. 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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