Feb 19, 4:30 PM: A discussion of Hito Steyerl's "The Wretched of the...
Join Counter Cinema Counter Media on February 19th, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality for a discussion of Hito Steyerl's The Wretched of the Screen. Featuring...
View ArticleFeb 25, 4:30 PM: Gender & Sexuality in Middle Eastern History Lecture Series
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...
View ArticleFeb 25, 7:00 PM: They've Got a Mouth on Them: Eric A. ...
Criminal Queers, directed by Eric A. Stanley & Chris Vargas Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls....
View ArticleMar 1, 4:30 PM: Martha Nussbaum, "Disgust or Equality? India's Battle...
2016 Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture Martha Nussbaum Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School "India decriminalized sodomy in...
View ArticleMar 8, 4:30 PM: Jessica Zulema Borja, âThe Impact of Working Alone: The...
Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Prof. Amanda Sharkey (Associate Professor of Organizations and Markets, Booth School of Business) is curating the workshop this quarter under the theme, âGender...
View ArticleMay 14, 6:00 PM: Malgré la nuit with director Philippe Grandrieux
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...
View ArticleMay 14, 2:00 PM: White Epilepsy with director Philippe Grandrieux
The Film Studies Center presents a screening of "White Epilepsy" with director Philippe Grandrieux in attendance. In the middle of a forest, two naked bodies, those of a man and a woman, perform a very...
View ArticleMay 13, 9:00 AM: Un lac with director Philippe Grandrieux
The Film Studies Center presents a screening of "Un lac" with director Philippe Grandrieux in attendance. Un lac has the profound simplicity of a folk tale. A young woodcutter plagued by seizures and...
View ArticleApr 15, 6:00 PM: Jennicet Gutiérrez at the School of Social Service...
The LatinX Student Association (LSA) at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration presents Jennicet Gutiérrez for LSA's Annual Speaker Series. Jennicet Gutiérrez is a...
View ArticleMar 31, 7:00 PM: Paris Is Burning introduced by Solveig Nelson
The Film Studies Center presents a screening of Jennie Livingston's documentary Paris Is Burning, with an introduction by Solveig Nelson, PhD candidate in Art History. The film is an exhilarating...
View ArticleApr 6, 4:30 PM: Esther Newton, "How a Chicago Grad Student Survived the...
2016 Distinguished Alumni Lecture Esther Newton, AM â66, PhD â68 "How a Chicago Grad Student Survived the Closet: 1962-1968" from her forthcoming memoir, "My Butch Career: A Queer Life in...
View ArticleMay 12, 4:30 PM: Spring Film Series - "UnSlut: A Documentary Film"
CSGS Spring Film Series May 12 UnSlut: A Documentary Film (Emily Lindin, 2015, 40 min.) Features conversations with those who have experienced sexual shaming, including the story of seventeen-year-old...
View ArticleMay 5, 9:30 AM: Conference: Gender|Publics|Panics in the Global South
In the past two decades, changing economies and new, international forms of governance, not least the âwomenâs human rightsâ industry, have transformed social landscapes across the global South....
View ArticleMay 4, 4:30 PM: Christa Blümlinger, âA Return to âTechniques of the...
The Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project presents Christa Blümlinger, âA Return to âTechniques of the Body:â Zoe Beloffâs Reinventionsâ This lecture investigates a multimedia installation...
View ArticleApr 28, 7:30 PM: "A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in...
The Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project presents"A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood" three new films by Zoe Belloff, followed by a discussion with Beloff in person In 1930 Russian...
View ArticleApr 28, 4:30 PM: Spring Film Series - "No Más Bebés"
CSGS Spring Film Series April 28 No Más Bebés (Renee Tajima-Peña, 2015, 79 min.) The story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women...
View ArticleApr 14, 6:00 PM: Spring Film Series - TBA
CSGS Spring Film Series April 14 Film TBADate: April 14, 2016Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
View ArticleMay 13, 9:00 AM: Un lac with director Philippe Grandrieux
The Film Studies Center presents a screening of "Un lac" with director Philippe Grandrieux in attendance. Un lac has the profound simplicity of a folk tale. A young woodcutter plagued by seizures and...
View ArticleMay 14, 2:00 PM: White Epilepsy with director Philippe Grandrieux
The Film Studies Center presents a screening of "White Epilepsy" with director Philippe Grandrieux in attendance. In the middle of a forest, two naked bodies, those of a man and a woman, perform a very...
View ArticleMay 16, 4:30 PM: Chase Joynt, "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and...
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 artistsâ lives before and after transitions:...
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