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Oct 5, 5:00 PM: Book Salon | "Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and...

Join the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Global Studies for a book salon discussion of Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai. This discussion will...

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Oct 6, 12:00 PM: Sianne Ngai: Theory of the Gimmick

Please join 3CT as Sianne Ngai discusses her recent book, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Harvard University Press, 2020) in a conversation with Tina Post. 3CT...

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Nov 16, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Yuchen Yang, "'What the F**k Are You Implying...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Workshops are held on alternate (even week) Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:20pm CST. Papers and a Zoom link will be circulated a week in advance. Tuesday, November 16:...

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Nov 5, 3:00 PM: What Does Lauren Berlant Teach Us About X?

A virtual symposium to honor the life and work of Professor Lauren Berlant (1957-2021) featuring: • Romi Crawford • Sianne Ngai • Katie Stewart This event is free and open to the public, but...

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Nov 2, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Rafaella Taylor-Seymour, “Unexpected Callings: The...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Workshops are held on alternate (even week) Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:20pm CST. Papers and a Zoom link will be circulated a week in advance. Tuesday, November 2:...

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Oct 20, 7:00 PM: Manning up for the Nation: State, Media, and China’s...

A specter is haunting China—the specter of a “masculinity crisis.” On September 2nd, 2021, the Chinese government issued a ban on “sissy men and other abnormal aesthetics” on TV and media sites, as a...

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Oct 19, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Eva Pensis, “Problem Child: Social Feminization, Abuse...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Workshops are held on alternate (even week) Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:20pm CST. Papers and a Zoom link will be circulated a week in advance. Tuesday, October 19:...

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Oct 13, 5:15 PM: Gender and Sexuality Studies Info Session

Interested in learning more about the GNSE major or minor? This open house is an opportunity to see how you can integrate the study of gender/sexuality into your study of another discipline or as your...

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Oct 13, 4:30 PM: Book Talk | Stefan Vogler on "Sorting Sexualities:...

In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices...

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Oct 6, 12:00 PM: Sianne Ngai Theory of the Gimmick

Please join us as Sianne Ngai discusses her recent book, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Harvard University Press, 2020), in a conversation with Tina Post. 3CT...

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Nov 16, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Yuchen Yang, "'What the F**k Are You Implying...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Workshops are held on alternate (even week) Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:20pm CST. Papers and a Zoom link will be circulated a week in advance. Tuesday, November 16:...

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Oct 12, 5:00 PM: Getting Real: The Cultural Politics of Reality TV Working...

Please join the working group, “Getting Real: The Cultural Politics of Reality TV," for an outdoor reception to kick off this first-of-its-kind working group and series of public events. About the...

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Nov 16, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Yuchen Yang, "'What the F**k Are You Implying...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Workshops are held on alternate (even week) Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:20pm CST. Papers and a Zoom link will be circulated a week in advance. Tuesday, November 16:...

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Nov 17, 6:00 PM: The Porn Star After OnlyFans and SESTA/FOSTA panel with...

From its Golden Age in the 70s to the mid 2000s, porn’s key emblem was the “porn star,” the erotic performer-celebrity whose name and body were both highly influential and massively exchanged in images...

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Nov 30, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Eman Abdelhadi, "'Gendering Embeddedness -...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Workshops are held on alternate (even week) Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:20pm CST. Papers and a Zoom link will be circulated a week in advance. Tuesday, November 30:...

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Nov 18, 7:00 PM: Manon Garcia on "We Are Not Born Submissive: How...

Join us for a conversation with Manon Garcia on her new book "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives." Garcia will be joined in conversation by Nancy Bauer. About the Book: In...

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Nov 15, 7:00 PM: Pleasure and Compromise: Feminists Read Culture with Arielle...

Join four feminist critics in conversation about how they love, hate, and compromise with the culture around us. In an imperfect cultural world, what compromises do we make to honor pleasure? How do...

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Nov 8, 4:30 PM: Feminist/Queer Praxis: Gender and Marketing

Ads are everywhere. No matter how hard you might try, you can’t avoid them or the impact they have on how we think about ourselves and others. Join our panel of researchers and practitioners to talk...

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Nov 10, 6:00 PM: Getting Real: Reality TV Working Group Meeting

Please join the "Getting Real" working group on the cultural politics of reality television for a Zoom discussion on Wednesday, November 10 at 6:00 – 7:30 PM. To join the Zoom meeting next week, use...

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Feb 16, 4:30 PM: The Pleasures and Perils of Doing Radical Sexuality Work in...

This virtual panel will feature Joseph Fischel (Yale University), Sarah Luna (Tufts University), and Red Vaughan Tremmel (Tulane University). The speakers are former Hormel dissertation fellows of the...

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