Jan 24, 7:00 PM: Real or Imagined: The Role of Gender in the Ancient Middle East
What are the origins of patriarchy? What were the real and imagined limits of gender identity in the lives of ancient men, women, and children? How have modern scholars revealed, repressed, or misused...
View ArticleDec 4, 4:30 PM: Melissa Hardesty, Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop
CSGS Workshop with CSGS Fellow, Melissa Hardesty (SSA).Date: December 4, 2012Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
View ArticleMar 13, 5:00 PM: Counter Cinema/Counter Media: Varda/Marker: The Museum's...
Christa Blümlinger (University of Paris VIII) compares the early films and later installations and digital work of the radical Rive Gauche artist-filmmakers Agnès Varda and Chris Marker. Whether they...
View ArticleFeb 20, 5:00 PM: Counter Cinema/Counter Media: Queer Cinema as Counter Cinema...
Nick Davis, Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University, explores recent practices in global queer filmmaking from artistic, ideological, and theoretical vantages, assessing how they...
View ArticleFeb 7, 5:00 PM: Counter Cinema/Counter Media: Our Bodies Your Selves
Four recent works that perform gender and resistance: from sex-play critique to gender outlaws, from hunger strikes to the reconstitution of an archived martyr. Curated by film and video maker Jason...
View ArticleJan 11, 5:00 PM: Counter Cinema/Counter Media: Invisible Adversaries
“Breaking free of conventional unities of body, space and time, this early feature by one of Europe's leading feminist filmmakers is a haunting excursion into psychic disintegration and crumbling...
View ArticleFeb 7, 4:30 PM: "In the Shadow of Roe: Feminist Perspectives on ...
This is a roundtable event featuring, Linda Zerilli (Chicago), Dorothy Roberts (Penn), Rosalind Petchesky (CUNY-Hunter College), Rayna Rapp (NYU), and moderated by Martha Nussbaum.Date: February 7,...
View ArticleJan 25, 12:00 PM: "Studying Each Other", Undergraduate Lunch Talk...
RSVP stuohey@uchicago.eduDate: January 25, 2013Time: 12:00 PM
View ArticleJan 22, 4:30 PM: Richard T. Rodriguez, "Gentrify My Love: Sexuality,...
Richard T. Rodríguez is associate professor of English, Latina/o Studies, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Gender and Women's Studies and Acting Chair of Latina/Latino Studies at the University...
View ArticleMar 13, 5:00 PM: Counter Cinema/Counter Media: Varda/Marker: The Museum's...
Christa Blümlinger (University of Paris VIII) compares the early films and later installations and digital work of the radical Rive Gauche artist-filmmakers Agnès Varda and Chris Marker. Whether they...
View ArticleFeb 12, 5:30 PM: Undergraduate Movie Night: Maids and Madams
Maids and Madams Mira Hamermesh, writer/director Mira Hamermesh's powerful film, shot in South Africa, eloquently examines the tragedy of Apartheid through the complex relationship between black...
View ArticleJan 16, 4:30 PM: Performing Fiction: I'm Trying to Reach You
The LGBTQ Project sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality will welcome Barbara Browning as the first speaker of the New Queer Writing Lecture Series at 4:30pm on Wednesday,...
View ArticleFeb 27, 5:00 PM: Iris Marion Young Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture:...
Susan Gal, Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences in the College, is presently doing research on the political economy of...
View ArticleFeb 20, 5:00 PM: Counter Cinema| Counter Media Series Presents, "Queer...
Nick Davis(Northwestern University) assesses recent practices in global queer filmmaking from artistic, ideological, and theoretical vantages.Date: February 20, 2013Time: 5:00 PM
View ArticleFeb 20, 5:00 PM: Counter Cinema/Counter Media: Queer Cinema as Counter Cinema...
Nick Davis, Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University, explores recent practices in global queer filmmaking from artistic, ideological, and theoretical vantages, assessing how they...
View ArticleFeb 19, 5:30 PM: Undergraduate Movie Night: "Nobody Knows My Name"
"Nobody Knows My Name" tells the story of women who are connected by their love for hip-hop music. Despite the fact that these talented female artists exist within a culture that revolves around...
View ArticleFeb 15, 9:00 AM: Subjectivity, Agency, and Gender in the Middle Ages
Carol Symes, Keynote AddressDate: February 15, 2013Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
View ArticleFeb 25, 5:00 PM: From Harlem to Hoamatlond: Hip Hop, Malcolm X and Islamic...
CSRPC & CSGS's Civil Islam Initiative present Dr. Farid Hafez, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna. "From Harlem to Hoamatlond: Hip Hop, Malcolm X and Islamic Activism in Austria,"...
View ArticleFeb 5, 5:00 PM: The Civil Islam Initiative Presents - Muhammad: Legacy of a...
In commemoration of Mawlid-un-Nabi, join us for a screening on the 10th anniversary of the national PBS documentary, “Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet,” produced by Kikim Media and Unity Productions...
View ArticleFeb 27, 5:00 PM: Susan Gal: Traveling Feminisms? Women of the Extreme Right...
"Traveling feminisms? Women of the extreme right in Europe" Social movements are becoming as globalized as economies. Feminism has long been transnational. Current versions, especially in the east of...
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