Dec 12, 6:00 PM: Interrupting a Culture of Violence Against Women with...
Location: Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave, Chicago RSVP here: https://go.prairie.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=478&erid=2166846&trid=f4be7ea5-5af0-450a-b6ef-4832ff34df94 What does rape look...
View ArticleFeb 13, 4:30 PM: "100 Butches" Exhibit Opening
Details TBADate: February 13, 2014Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
View ArticleMar 6, 4:30 AM: Tavia Nyong'o
Details TBA Sponsored by the LGBTQ Studies Project of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 3CT and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop.Date: March 6, 2014Time: 4:30 AM - 6:30 AM
View ArticleFeb 25, 4:30 PM: Nina Wakeford
Details TBA Sponsored by the LGBTQ Studies Project of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 3CT and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop.Date: February 25, 2014Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
View ArticleFeb 18, 4:30 PM: Zach Blas, “On Informatic Opacity and Queerness”
This talk focuses on queer, feminist, and transgender responses against digital identification technologies that employ imperceptible tactics. Today, in an era of universal standards of identification...
View ArticleFeb 12, 5:00 PM: Deborah Nelson, The Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty...
Deborah Nelson, Deputy Provost for Graduate Education and Associate Professor, Department of English and former director of CSGS (CGS), University of Chicago Title TBA Location: Social Sciences...
View ArticleFeb 4, 7:00 PM: Mel Chen writing workshop, "Track Switching"
This writing workshop, entitled "track switching," focuses discussion on questions of inter- or trans- disciplinarity, wherein disciplines are considered as arbiters of moral, ethical, and affective...
View ArticleFeb 4, 4:30 PM: Mel Chen, "Material Alliance"
"Material alliance" is an exploration of the strange, yet historically motivated material resonances that traffic between "race" and "disability." Sponsored by the LGBTQ Studies Project of the Center...
View ArticleJan 29, 4:30 PM: Rizwan Mawani, "An Alternative Islam? Women and...
Rizwan Mawani Institute for Ismaili Studies & Graduate Theological Union Based on 4 years of ethnographic research in 17 countries -- from Senegal to China, this talk explores various ways Muslim...
View ArticleJan 30, 4:30 PM: Unmasking Fake Geek Girl: Confronting gatekeeping and sexism...
As the line between "geek" and "mainstream" culture becomes more blurred, the debate about what makes someone an "authentic" or "fake" geek has taken on an unmistakably gendered tone. Women are no...
View ArticleJan 21, 4:30 PM: GSSW: Sam Galloway, "Cruising Foucault: Sex, Ethics,...
Sam Galloway, Dept of Political Science. This paper intervenes in current research on queer politics by reading William Friedkin?s film Cruising (1980) through a Foucaultdian lens. The Gender and...
View ArticleJan 17, 6:00 PM: How to Survive a Plague Screening and Panel Discussion
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts?Film Screening Room?915 East 60th Street?Chicago, IL 60637 How to Survive a Plague is an award-winning film story about the inspiring young people who created...
View ArticleFeb 25, 6:00 PM: Nina Wakeford, "Workshop: Inventive Methods for...
Artist-sociologist Nina Wakeford (Goldsmiths, University of London) Methods Workshop: Inventive Methods for Generating the Social Sponsored by the LGBTQ Studies Project of the Center for the Study of...
View ArticleMar 4, 4:30 PM: GSSW: Amanda Leigh Davis, "Houses for Dying in: the...
Amanda Leigh Davis will circulate her paper, "Houses for Dying in: the Reanimated Females of Poe, Hawthorne, and Faulkner." A pervasive convention of the Gothic genre is the threat or terror of being...
View ArticleMar 6, 4:30 PM: Tavia Nyong'o, "Losing the Plot: Queer Digressions on...
Tavia Nyong'o, New York University This talk investigates the time and work of queer fabulation, through a particular focus on the digressive narrator. The recent upsurge in ontological theorizing,...
View ArticleFeb 13, 12:00 PM: Lunch Talk by Kim Katrin Crosby
Presented by the Artists' Salon of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.Date: February 13,...
View ArticleMar 6, 6:30 PM: Tavia Nyong'o, Workshop: "Critical Practice"
Tavia Nyong'o, New York University Workshop following 4:30 talk. See calendar. Sponsored by the LGBTQ Studies Project of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 3CT and the Gender and...
View ArticleMar 5, 4:30 PM: Regulation of Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Right to...
The Human Rights Program, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) are pleased to present a...
View ArticleMar 14, 9:00 AM: All Day Student Write-in
All Day Write-in CSGS will provide space, breakfast, and snacks to help students continue progress on their major writing projects. RSVP required. Email gssworkshop@gmail.com to reserve a spot.Date:...
View ArticleMar 13, 6:00 PM: "Food and the Body" Movie Night/Study Break
"Food and the Body" Movie Night/Study Break Showing: "Jennifer's Body" and "Teeth" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780622/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Please note: We are aware that...
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