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May 14, 6:00 PM: Malgré la nuit with director Philippe Grandrieux

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The Film Studies Center presents a screening of "Malgré la nuit" with director Philippe Grandrieux in attendance. An English musician in search of his vanished lover in Paris begins a destructive relationship with a nurse grieving the death of her infant son, joining her on her quest for oblivion in the subterranean world of a brutal sex ring. Co-written with Rebecca Zlotowski (Grand Central) and inspired by philosopher Gottfried Leibniz’s The Monadology, Malgré la nuit is one of Grandrieux’s most emotional works. The exploration of love and the fragility of the human psyche is presented in Grandrieux’s signature elliptical, visceral style, daring viewers to watch the characters’ Orphic journey. (Philippe Grandrieux, France, 2015, 150 min., DCP) Philippe Grandrieux is an artist who works in feature film, experimental television, video art, documentary, and museum and gallery installation. His films have screened at the Locarno Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the Festival du nouveau cinéma of Montréal, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Film retrospectives, installations, and performances have taken place around the world, including at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Lincoln Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, MA. In partnership with the Department of Cinema and Media Studies; the Arts, Science & Culture Initiative; Critical Inquiry; and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality’s Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project.

Date: May 14, 2016
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

See:http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/events/2016/malgr%C3%A9-la-nuit

May 3, 4:30 PM: Tristan Bates, "Echolocating Home: Voice and Space in Latife Tekin’s ...

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop We are excited to announce the Spring Quarter schedule for the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop. This quarter’s theme is “Gender, Sexuality, and the Transnational,” and will be curated by Sonali Thakkar, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. While seminal works of feminist and queer theory have elaborated the gendered and sexed production of the nation and its imagined communities, scholars have also long been preoccupied with the transnational dimensions of gender discourse—we might think, for instance, of the enduring importance of critical work on the relationship of first- and third-world feminisms. The breadth and diversity of such work has only grown in recent years, with the intensified interest in transnationalism and its associated concepts and figures (globality, planetary, etc.). Papers and presentations will focus on the transnational poetics and politics of gender and sexuality, both historical and contemporary. May 3rd: Tristan Bates, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, "Echolocating Home: Voice and Space in Latife Tekin’s Dear Shameless Death and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Life is a Caravanserai” Papers are made available in advance via our email list. If you are interested in joining the email list, go to http://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/sexuality-gender-wkshp or contact the workshop coordinators, Annie Heffernan and Rebecca Oh, at gssworkshop@gmail.com. If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please don’t hesitate to contact the workshop coordinators at gssworkshop@gmail.com.

Date: May 3, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/

May 2, 4:30 PM: Anna Anthropy hosts the CSGS Game Night

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Artist, play designer, and archivist Anna Anthropy joins the Alternate Realities and Virtual Worlds series to curate a game night with a combination of her video games, analog games, and games that have been important to her. Anthropy is the author of Rise of the Videogame Zinesters and ZZT, and maintains the game history archive ANNARCHIVE.COM.

Date: May 2, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/466529156879104/

May 2, 12:00 PM: Anna Anthropy Lecture

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Artist, play designer, and archivist Anna Anthropy joins the Alternate Realities and Virtual Worlds series to talk about the game design tools ZZT and Super Mario Maker, and how the design practices of aspiring game makers in the early 1990s relates to similar practices today. Anna Anthropy will also curate a game night (May 2 at 4:30pm) with a combination of her video games, analog games, and games that have been important to her. Anthropy is the author of Rise of the Videogame Zinesters and ZZT, and maintains the game history archive ANNARCHIVE.COM.

Date: May 2, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/717252531750895/

May 19, 6:00 PM: CSGS 20th Anniversary Symposium: Opening Reception and Panel

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6-6:30 - OPENING RECEPTION 6:30-9:00 - THE FOUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES AT UCHICAGO This panel brings together 7 of the people who played key roles in the founding of the Center in 1996. Beth Helsinger (English, Emerita), Norma Field (East Asian Lang & Civ) and Rebecca Zorach (Art History, Northwestern) will talk about feminist scholarship and teaching at the University before the founding of the Center and the years of planning leading up to it, including the role of students in that work. George Chauncey (History, Yale) and Michael Dawson (Political Science) share their views on our efforts in those years to fully integrate the study of gender, sexuality and race. John Boyer (Dean, The College) will speak of the College's support for the initiative and Leora Auslander (History) of the challenges and successes of the initial three years. Jane Dailey (History) will moderate. The symposium will continue on Friday from 9:30-4 pm.

Date: May 19, 2016
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

May 19, 4:30 PM: Gender & Sexuality in Middle Eastern History Lecture Series

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The Gender and Sexuality in Middle Eastern History lecture series is designed to offer theoretical and methodological frameworks for thinking about and utilizing topics in gender and sexuality studies across multiple periods in Islamic civilizational history. The invited speakers will be February 25, 2016 - Marion Katz (NYU) April 14, 2016 - Sara Omar (Georgetown) May 19, 2016 - Eve Troutt Powell (UPenn)

Date: May 19, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

May 17, 4:30 PM: Sneha Annavarapu, “Behave Yourself! — The Cultural Politics of PDA in ...

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop We are excited to announce the Spring Quarter schedule for the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop. This quarter’s theme is “Gender, Sexuality, and the Transnational,” and will be curated by Sonali Thakkar, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. While seminal works of feminist and queer theory have elaborated the gendered and sexed production of the nation and its imagined communities, scholars have also long been preoccupied with the transnational dimensions of gender discourse—we might think, for instance, of the enduring importance of critical work on the relationship of first- and third-world feminisms. The breadth and diversity of such work has only grown in recent years, with the intensified interest in transnationalism and its associated concepts and figures (globality, planetary, etc.). Papers and presentations will focus on the transnational poetics and politics of gender and sexuality, both historical and contemporary. May 17th: Sneha Annavarapu, PhD Student in Sociology, University of Chicago, “Behave Yourself! — The Cultural Politics of PDA in Bombay/Mumbai” Papers are made available in advance via our email list. If you are interested in joining the email list, go to http://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/sexuality-gender-wkshp or contact the workshop coordinators, Annie Heffernan and Rebecca Oh, at gssworkshop@gmail.com. If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please don’t hesitate to contact the workshop coordinators at gssworkshop@gmail.com.

Date: May 17, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/

May 16, 4:30 PM: Chase Joynt, "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition"

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Chase Joynt launches his new book (co-authored with Mike Hoolboom), "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition" ABOUT THE BOOK: YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near dead to alive. "The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolved. Man and woman. Queer and straight." What if it’s not true that you only live once? In this genre-transcending work of true fiction, trans writer and media artist Chase Joynt and HIV-positive movie artist Mike Hoolboom come together over the films of Chris Marker to exchange transition tales: confessional missives that map out the particularities of what they call ‘second lives’: Chase’s transition from female to male and Mike’s near-death from AIDS in the 1990s. Chronicling reactions from friends and families, medical mechanics and different versions of ‘coming out,’ YOLT explores art, love, sex, death and life in changed bodies. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: CHASE JOYNT is a Toronto-based moving-image artist and writer. Recently awarded the EP Canada/Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist and jury awards for Best Documentary and Best Short, Chase’s work continues to be exhibited internationally. Chase is a PhD candidate in Film at York University and a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship at the University of Chicago. MIKE HOOLBOOM is an author and filmmaker based in Toronto. He has written four books, received more than seventy awards, and enjoyed fifteen international retrospectives of his work. Co-sponsored by The Seminary Co-op Bookstores

Date: May 16, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/258542061158121/

May 12, 10:30 AM: Stop Telling Women to Smile @ UChicago

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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, creator of the Stop Telling Women to Smile social-art series, will be at the University of Chicago May 12-14 for a three-day artist-in-residency program. This program will use social-art practice to address issues of sexual- harassment and misconduct. Tatyana will be giving a lecture, leading workshops, and using wheat paste to exhibit her work. Tatyana is an oil-painter and illustrator based in Brooklyn. In protest of the routine street harassment artist she experienced, she wheat pasted a self-portrait with the caption “STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE” around her neighborhood. That portrait initiated "Stop Telling Women to Smile," an art series in which Tatyana talks to women about their experiences with harassment and uses these conversations as inspiration for captioned portraits. The portraits are posted in public spaces, allowing women to speak directly to offenders in the space where they have previously felt marginalized. Since its creation in 2012, Stop Telling Women to Smile has traveled to walls in countless U.S. cities, Mexico City, and Paris. Most recently, Tatyana was commissioned to paint portraits of BET's‪#‎BlackGirlsRock celebrants: Amandla Stenberg, Danai Gurira, Shonda Rhimes, Gladys Knight, Rihanna, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. THURSDAY, MAY 12 10:30am-12pm Workshop* CSGS lower level seminar room Open to cis and trans- females Capacity: 30 people RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stop-telling-women-to-smile-tatyana-fazlalizadeh-artist-in-residency-female-only-workshop-tickets-24688770778 Late-afternoon: Tatyana works on posters 6:30pm: Lecture @ Knapp Center open to all FRIDAY, MAY 13 10:30am-12pm: Workshop* Open to all genders CSGS 1st floor event space Capacity: 30 people RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stop-telling-women-to-smile-tatyana-fazlalizadeh-artist-in-residency-open-workshop-tickets-24878742990 Late-afternoon: Tatyana works on posters 5:00-6:30pm: Study Break w/ Tatyana CSGS 1st floor event space Evening: Wheat pasting on campus and in Hyde Park SATURDAY, MAY 14 Early Morning: Volunteer breakfast Morning: Wheatpasting in Washington Park (near Arts Incubator) * starred events will have SADOC nearby in case of emergency

Starts: May 12, 2016
Ends: May 14, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/STWTSUChicago/

May 20, 9:00 AM: CSGS 20th Anniversary Symposium

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Following the opening panel on Thursday evening, three panels will examine transformative texts generated by faculty while at UChicago, program alumni on how gender and sexuality studies impacted their education and how it has informed what they are doing now, and new, hybrid, and interdisciplinary directions in gender and sexuality research. 9:30-10:00am Welcome 10:00-11:30am THE IMPACT OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES AT UCHICAGO Gender and Sexuality Studies alumni will reflect on how gender and sexuality studies impacted their education and how it has informed what they are doing now. Panelists: Quinlan Miller (AB ’03), Erin Moore (AB ’07), Cindy Nguyen (AB ’08), Melissa Oglesby (AB ’02), Naomi Sobel (AB ’05) Moderator: Debbie Nelson (English) 11:45-1:00pm TRANSFORMATIONAL TEXTS Faculty and former faculty will reflect on how the CSGS has influenced their work over the years, with a focus on texts written by the panelists that have been transformative for the field as a whole. Panelists: Lauren Berlant (English), George Chauncey (History, Yale), Susan Gal (Anthropology), Rochona Majumdar (South Asian Lang & Civ), Geoffrey Stone (Law School) Moderator: Linda Zerilli (Political Science) Organizer: Linda Zerilli 2:00-3:30pm NEW DIRECTIONS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTERESECTIONAL RESEARCH This panel will focus on new, hybrid, and interdisciplinary directions in intersectional research on genders and sexualities. Panelists will discuss how they are bringing together disciplinary conventions & activism and/or academic theory & cultural production (art-making, film, social media, and/or cultural texts). The adoption of hybrid practices and strategies of engagement that seek to transform or extend beyond traditional academic research methods and scholarship will be the central theme. Panelists: Jasmine Benjamin (Political Science), Jean Cochrane (Gender and Sexuality Studies), Michael Dango (English), Annie Heffernan (Political Science), Jenn Jackson (Political Science), Chase Joynt (Cinema and Media Studies, York Univ) Moderator: Kristen Schilt (Sociology) 3:30-5:00pm Reception and Close Symposium

Date: May 20, 2016
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/223188938059398/

Jun 9, 4:00 PM: CSRPC/CSGS Year-End BBQ

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Please join the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) as we celebrate the end of the 2015-2016 school year. All are welcome!

Date: June 9, 2016
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Jun 4, 6:00 PM: Alumni Weekend 2016: CSGS at 20 Cocktail Celebration!

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Please join us over alumni weekend, when current students and faculty, college alumni, and former graduate fellows will gather to celebrate 20 years with food, drinks and music!

Date: June 4, 2016
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Jun 3, 12:00 PM: Alumni Weekend 2016: CSGS at 20 Graduate Fellows Reunion

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12:00-1:30pm Graduate Alumni & Fellows Luncheon Join other former and current fellows at the Center for a welcome lunch, and get to know other fellows from across years. This will be a great chance to network with scholars from your field and others working on gender and sexuality. ***This is a special event open only to former and current fellows and invited grad students and alumni. RSVP required.*** 1:45-3:15pm Roundtable 1: New Directions in Research and Activism What paths have our commitments to gender and sexuality studies taken since graduation? Panelists will address the many ways in which CSGS alumni have grown and sustained work as scholars, activists, and change-makers across fields and what might be learned from their experiences. 3:30-5:00pm Roundtable 2: Shared Space, Shared Histories—CSGS & CSRPC at 20 The history of the CSGS is inextricably linked to that of our neighbors at 5733 S. University Avenue - the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, also established on campus in 1996. Staff, faculty and alumni panelists will discuss the impact of committing resources to interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public debate at the University, unique opportunities to practice intersectionality, and the formal and informal connections supported by our shared space and resources. 5:00pm– Reception Faculty, fellows and alumni will gather to enjoy a reception at the Centers.

Date: June 3, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

May 27, 4:30 PM: Hito Steyerl discussion

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Join Counter Cinema Counter Media on Friday, May 27th, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality for a discussion of Hito Steyerl's work. Featuring informal presentations by students using Steyerl's work in their research, this discussion group will explore several chapters in depth. RSVP for the PDF: nmorse@uchicago.edu.

Date: May 27, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

May 26, 4:30 PM: Spring Film Series - "transparent"

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Consent, Choice, Agency Documentary Film Series at the CSGS, Spring 2016 The series will explore sex, violence and reproduction in contexts of law, medicine, culture and identity: the chipping away of abortion rights and the war on Planned Parenthood, sterilization abuse and sexual shaming which aim to control women’s sexuality, sexual pleasure, and reproduction and the possibilities embodied in making families and parenting across gender lines. ----------------------- May 26 transparent (Jules Rosskam, 2005, 61 min.) The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention will screen the documentary film transparent by Jules Rosskam, which follows the lives of 19 female-to-male transgender individuals as they recall their encounters giving birth to and raising children while transitioning. Followed by a discussion. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/17411202

Date: May 26, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Oct 10, 6:00 PM: Christiane Taubira on “Justice in Service of Equality”

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A lecture by, and conversation with, Christiane Taubira, former Minister of Justice of France. Post-lecture discussion will be moderated by Jennifer Wild (Cinema and Media Studies) and Mary Ann Case (Law School). Christiane Taubira is the founder of the left-wing Guianese party Walwari, and was elected four times to the National Assembly of France (representing French Guiana), where she was the driving force behind the 2001 law that recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity. In June 2012, she was appointed Justice Minister of France. In that capacity, she oversaw fundamental penal reforms that prevent recidivism and promote rehabilitation, and introduced a law that both legalized same-sex marriage in France, and allows same-sec couples to adopt children. Ms. Taubira is strongly committed to civil rights, women's rights, and the rights of disadvantaged youth. In the wake of the terrorist attacks France suffered in 2015, she published a book, "Murmures à la Jeunesse", in which she argues that the French Republic has at its disposal all the tools and resources needed to combat terrorism successfully. Jennifer Wild Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College. Affiliated faculty in the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Director of Undergraduate Studies. Mary Ann Case Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, UChicago Law Organized by the France Chicago Center, with support from the French Consulate, the Diplomatic Encounters Series, the Marianne Midwest Lecture Series, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC), Center the Study of Gender and Sexuality, French Club, Global Engagement, Institute of Politics, and Global Voices Series at the University of Chicago.

Date: October 10, 2016
Time: 6:00 PM

Oct 3, 4:30 PM: 5733 Open House

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Please join The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture for an open house to kick off the 2016-2017 school year. Light fare and drinks will be provided. All are welcome!

Date: October 3, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/1144733872249499/

Sep 28, 6:15 PM: Alicia Garza: Black Lives Matter

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Alicia Garza, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, will discuss the national movement’s past, present and future in a wide-ranging discussion about activism and organizing, supporting the voices of black cisgender, transgender and immigrant women, and the totality of black lives. Moderated by Eve Ewing, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. This event is organized by the University of Chicago's Institute for Politics, with support from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC), the University Community Service Center, the Center for Identity + Inclusion's Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and LGBTQ Student Life, the Center the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

Date: September 28, 2016
Time: 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM

Oct 26, 4:00 PM: An Afternoon with PWR BTTM

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In advance of their sold out (!!) Chicago performance, PWR BTTM joins us for an afternoon social. Discussion moderated by Addie Barron. PWR BTTM is a queer punk band consisting of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce. The band was formed at Bard College where Bruce and Hopkins bonded over a mutual interest in bringing elements of performance and drag artistry into DIY culture. Their debut LP, Ugly Cherries, documents the duo's experiences with queerness, gender, and adulthood over the course of a year of living in upstate New York. Addie is a fourth year physics student with fingers in numerous artistic, humanistic, and scientific disciplines. She studies and creates games, writing, and music, and is interested in looking at the ways whiteness and queerness figure into the dynamics of online and IRL spaces.

Date: October 26, 2016
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/1017984088314638/

Nov 18, 7:00 PM: An Evening with Sarah Price

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Award-winning American filmmaker Sarah Price burst onto the scene as the producer of the crowd-pleasing and critically acclaimed documentary American Movie (1999), which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance. Since then, she’s worked as a director and producer in documentary film (Caesar’s Peak, The Yes Men, Summercamp!, Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love), television (The Carrie Diaries), and commercials. Tonight, she shares her experiences as an independent filmmaker in a visually illustrated evening that includes clips from her eclectic body of work and a sneak preview of her latest upcoming release. In conversation with Jennifer Wild (Department of Cinema and Media Studies). Educated at the University of Iowa, award-winning American filmmaker Sarah Price's films have screened at prestigious festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and others. Presented by the Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project and co-sponsored by the Film Studies Center.

Date: November 18, 2016
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/618276805021094/
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