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Oct 15, 12:00 PM: Lunch with CeCe McDonald

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CeCe McDonald was a political prisoner incarcerated for defending herself against a racist, transphobic assault in July, 2010. Due to her willingness to fight, supporters and activists in Minneapolis and across the U.S. built up a solidarity campaign to demand her freedom, and were able to win her a reduced sentence. After serving a 17-month term, she was released in January 2014. After being released CeCe quickly became a leading and outspoken fighter in the movements for LGBTQ liberation, prison abolition, and racial justice. She is currently working on a forthcoming documentary with actress Laverne Cox on her case, “Free CeCe”. She was the Grand Marshall of Seattle Pride this year, she received the Bayard Rustin Civil Rights award, and has spoken on Democracy Now!, MSNBC, and various other media outlets. Please join us for an intimate lunch with CeCe McDonald prior to her 6pm campus lecture. Seats will be limited; we are asking students who want to attend to email tbrazas@uchicago.edu an RSVP by Friday, October 10. The lunch is sponsored by the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Life, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.

Date: October 15, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Oct 24, 10:00 AM: Heather Love, Workshop: "Queer Description"

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The workshop will be about description; please prepare for it by practicing description. Bring a ~500 word description of an artifact, event, interaction, representation, or other object or material you are working with in your research. In the workshop, we will share our descriptions with each other. We will also discuss protocols of description; description v. interpretation, argument, and evaluation; “situated knowledges” and the problem of perspective; how to capture the agency of objects; and what makes for an effective description. As much as possible, set these questions aside in writing for the workshop in order to focus on the description (and the object) itself. Heather Love received her A.B. from Harvard and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include gender studies and queer theory, the literature and culture of modernity, affect studies, film and visual culture, psychoanalysis, race and ethnicity, sociology and literature, disability studies, and critical theory. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard 2007), the editor of a special issue of GLQ on the scholarship and legacy of Gayle Rubin ("Rethinking Sex"), and the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History ("Is There Life after Identity Politics?"). A book of her essays and lectures (Queer Affect Politics: Selected Essays by Heather Love, ShenLou Press 2012) was published recently in Taiwan. She is spending 2014-2015 as the Stanley Kelley, Jr., Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton.

Date: October 24, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Oct 30, 4:30 PM: “Embodiment” opening reception featuring an Artists’ Talk by Edie Fake ...

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Opening reception for “Embodiment” featuring an Artists’ Talk by Edie Fake and a live performance by Jessica Campbell titled “That’s So Mavis Beacon." Featuring works by: Edie Fake: http://www.tcj.com/rad-queers-edie-fake/ Chase Joynt: http://chasejoynt.com Jessica Campbell: http://jessicacampbellpainting.tumblr.com Presented by the Artists' Salon of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Date: October 30, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Oct 23, 4:30 PM: Elizabeth Wilson, “Gut Feminism: Depression and Mood Beyond Mind"

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Elizabeth Wilson (Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University), “Gut Feminism: Depression and Mood Beyond Mind" ***Please note that this event is co-sponsored with the Medicine and its Objects workshop, and will meet at 4:30, location TBA*** Please see the workshop blog for further details: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/

Date: October 23, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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

Oct 21, 4:30 PM: Michael Chladek, “Learning to Dress: How Young Buddhist Monks Convey Gender, ...

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The Gender and Sexuality Studies Working Group is pleased to announce our schedule for the Fall Quarter. The purpose of the working group is to provide a forum for graduate stuents to workshop research and writing at any point in the progress of their work. Students and papers can be from any field, discipline, or methodological tradition, as long as the research is relevant, in some capacity, to gender and sexuality studies, broadly defined. October 21st: Michael Chladek, Comparative Human Development, “Learning to Dress: How Young Buddist Monks Convey Gender, Sexuality, and Morality with their Robes.”

Date: October 21, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/2014/10/02/working-group-fall-schedule/

Oct 14, 4:30 PM: Michael Snediker, “Queer Philology and Chronic Pain”

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Michael Snediker (Associate Professor of English, University of Houston), “Queer Philology and Chronic Pain.” Please see the workshop blog for further details: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/

Date: October 14, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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

Oct 28, 4:30 PM: Michael Dango, “‘Our’ Aesthetic Category: Camp and the Queerness of ...

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Michael Dango (Graduate Student, English, University of Chicago), “‘Our’ Aesthetic Category: Camp and the Queerness of Distribution.” Please see the workshop blog for further details: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/

Date: October 28, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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

Nov 4, 4:30 PM: Marie Laperrière, “Intersectionality and the Politics of Representation in ...

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The Gender and Sexuality Studies Working Group is pleased to announce our schedule for the Fall Quarter. The purpose of the working group is to provide a forum for graduate stuents to workshop research and writing at any point in the progress of their work. Students and papers can be from any field, discipline, or methodological tradition, as long as the research is relevant, in some capacity, to gender and sexuality studies, broadly defined. November 4th: Marie Laperrière, Northwestern University Department of Sociology, “Intersectionality and the Politics of Representation in the Québécois Women’s Movement.”

Date: November 4, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/2014/10/02/working-group-fall-schedule/

Oct 30, 4:30 PM: Artists’ Salon opening reception for Embodiment featuring an artists’ talk ...

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Opening reception for “Embodiment” featuring an Artists’ Talk by Edie Fake and a live performance by Jessica Campbell titled “That’s So Mavis Beacon." A group show featuring works by: Jessica Campbell http://jessicacampbellpainting.tumblr.com Anya Davidson http://anyaisdead.tumblr.com Edie Fake http://www.tcj.com/rad-queers-edie-fake/ Chase Joynt http://chasejoynt.com Laura Park http://www.singingbones.com Presented by the Artists' Salon of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Date: October 30, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://www.facebook.com/events/1540949052804060/

Oct 24, 1:00 PM: “Are We Family?” - Family Weekend Open House

Nov 18, 4:30 PM: Legitimation Crisis? On the Political Contradictions of Financialized ...

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Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Department Chair at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her concentrations include social and political theory; feminist theory; contemporary French and German thought. Recent publications are Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (2013); "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History" in the New Left Review (2009); and Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (2008). Co-sponsored by the Social Theory Workshop, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.

Date: November 18, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

See:http://ccct.uchicago.edu/events/2014/9/8/legitimation-crisis-on-the-political-contradictions-of-financialized-capitalism-with-nancy-fraser

Nov 18, 4:30 PM: Jaira Harrington, “Re-conceptualizing Rights and Union Politics in Brazil: ...

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The Gender and Sexuality Studies Working Group is pleased to announce our schedule for the Fall Quarter. The purpose of the working group is to provide a forum for graduate stuents to workshop research and writing at any point in the progress of their work. Students and papers can be from any field, discipline, or methodological tradition, as long as the research is relevant, in some capacity, to gender and sexuality studies, broadly defined. November 18th: Jaira Harrington, Political Science, “Re-conceptualizing Rights and Union Politics in Brazil: Domestic Workers at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender.”

Date: November 18, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

See:https://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/2014/10/02/working-group-fall-schedule/

Nov 14, 9:30 AM: Katherine Franke workshop

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The morning of November 14, CSGS and the Law School will host a breakfast time student workshop with Katherine Franke, Columbia University Professor of Law, on the meaning and implications of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings expanding the scope of religion-based exemptions from otherwise generally applicable laws. Seats will be limited to about 20, so we are asking students who want to attend to email stuohey@uchicago.edu an RSVP. Please do this by noon on Monday, November 10.

Date: November 14, 2014
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Nov 13, 4:00 PM: Katherine Franke, "The Aftermath of Hobby Lobby: Public Values in the ...

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Professor Franke will discuss the meaning and implications of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings expanding the scope of religion-based exemptions from otherwise generally applicable laws. Part of the Precarious Citizenship lecture series. Reception to follow. Katherine Franke is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law. She was awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and is among the nation's leading scholars in the area of feminism, sexuality and race. Franke is also on the Executive Committee for Columbia's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Center for Palestine Studies and teaches at a medium security women's prison in Manhattan.

Date: November 13, 2014
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Nov 11, 4:30 PM: Amanda Blair, “The Continuum of Sexual Violence: The Realities of ...

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Amanda Blair (PhD Candidate, Political Science, University of Chicago), “The Continuum of Sexual Violence: The Realities of Post-Conflict Prostitution in Northern Uganda.” Please see the workshop blog for further details: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/

Date: November 11, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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

Nov 7, 12:00 PM: Ariel Schrag, workshop: "How to Write Anything: Ariel Schrag on ...

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Author Ariel Schrag will host an informal lunch discussion about her experiences as a career writer. As a high school student, she wrote and published a series of graphic memoirs about her life. She has since written for television (including the L Word), and recently published her first fiction novel, Adam. The event is open to undergraduates, and food will be provided.

Date: November 7, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Nov 3, 12:00 PM: Nadève Ménard, "Re-imagining Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in ...

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THE DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, THE FRANCE CHICAGO CENTER, AND THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY PRESENT Nadève Ménard Literature Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Université d’État d’Haïti "Re-imagining Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Fiction by Haitian Women" Monday, November 3 at noon Wieboldt 207 Please bring your lunch. Coffee, tea & dessert will be provided.

Date: November 3, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Nov 11, 12:00 PM: Student Lunch with Alon Harel - "LGBT Rights in Israel: A Success ...

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David and Laureine Greenbaum Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Law School and Mizock Professor of Law at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will speak on LGBT rights in Israel.

Date: November 11, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Nov 4, 10:00 AM: Nadève Ménard Discussion with Graduate Students

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THE DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, THE FRANCE CHICAGO CENTER, AND THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY PRESENT Discussion with Nadève Ménard, Literature Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Université d’État d’Haïti Tuesday, November 4 at 10am Wieboldt 216 (student lounge) Breakfast will be served

Date: November 4, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Nov 18, 4:30 PM: Nancy Fraser, "Legitimation Crisis? Political Contradictions of ...

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Nancy Fraser, Legitimation crisis? Political contradictions of financialized capitalism Numerous phenomena suggest a serious crisis of democracy: for example, declining electoral turnout; the rise of extremist parties; widespread disaffection with the European Union; steep narrowing of real policy differences between competing parties as nearly all rush to placate “the markets”; increased capture of public powers by private interests; growing geopolitical irrationality, reflecting the decline of US hegemony. No wonder, then, that diagnoses of political crisis proliferate: we hear now of “post-democracy,” “de-democratization,” “the crises of democratic capitalism,” and “façade democracy.” I suggest that these phenomena are best understood as expressions, under historically specific contemporary conditions, of a general tendency to political crisis that is intrinsic to capitalist societies. I elaborate this thesis in three steps. First, I propose a general account of “the political contradiction of capitalism,” without reference to particular historical forms. Then, I reconstruct Jürgen Habermas’s 1973 book, Legitimation Crisis, as an account of the form this political contradiction assumed in one specific phase of capitalist society, namely state-managed capitalism. Finally, I argue that democracy’s present travails express capitalism’s political contradiction in its current phase of financialized, globalizing capitalism.

Date: November 18, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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