"Queer Philology"
by Jeff Masten
Associate Professor of English & Gender Studies, Northwestern University
TBA ~ 5:00pm
Kresge 2-359
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"Business as Usual?
Incorporating Transgender Men into the Workplace."
by Kristen Schilt
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 ~ 5:00pm
Kresge 2-359
Kristen Schilt's research examines the workplace experiences of transgender men - individuals who were assigned female at birth but transition later in life to live as men. Her talk will focus on how employers and co-workers incorporate (or don't incorporate) transgender men as just one of the guys at work.
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"Camp Revival: Performing Sexuality in the Black Church"
by E. Patrick Johnson
The first event of the Gender Studies 2009-10 colloquium series
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 ~ 4:30pm
McCormick Tribune Center
The talk will be followed by wine & hors d'oeuvres
recent events
Help About Face Theatre Face the Future and keep its theatre and LGBT youth program alive!
One night only - Visiting Professor Holly Hughes, joined by Spencer Gartner and Mugsie Pike will be performing A Sapphic Sampler of work. Do you need more enticement than that?
Come for the performance art! Come for cheap baked goods ($1 each)! Come to help out Chicago theatre!
Space is limited to 60 seats/show, so, while you can just show up the night of, if you're smart you'll reserve a ticket by emailing gender@northwestern.edu! Pay at the door - cash only. Any reserved tickets unclaimed by 5 minutes before the show will be sold to anyone waiting.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Annie May Swift Hall 103 (Black Box)
1920 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL
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Shows are at 6 and 8 and run for roughly an hour each.
$5 for students
$10 general public
For more info on About Face and their Face the Future project, check them out at http://aboutfacetheatre.com/ and http://facethefuture.wordpress.com/
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Gender Studies Keywords Conversation Series 2008-09
Second Meeting: "(Still) Thinking Sex "
When: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from 5:15-7 pm, refreshments will be provided
Where: Kresge 2-359
Who: Helen Thompson , Associate Professor (English and Gender Studies)
Gregory Mitchell, Ph.D. Candidate (Performance Studies and Gender Studies)
Jennifer Tyburczy
, Ph.D. (Performance Studies and Gender Studies)
Broad Questions: How does "sex" continue to enable, disrupt, complicate, and cooperate with the different word we all do under the auspices of Gender Studies?
Is "sex" an act, a category, a myth?
Can you measure it, preserve it, capture it in language?
How do the answers to these questions change, both as our own work evolves and across the disciplines and trends of scholarship?
On This Series: The Gender Studies Program will sponsor several afternoon events over the course of this school year as venues for faculty and graduate students to discuss and debate some of the pivotal terms that organize, inform, and sometimes unsettle our research and teaching in gender and sexuality studies. At least one faculty member and at least one graduate student from different fields will open each discussion, offering a compressed genealogy of one "keyword" in the context of Gender Studies scholarship. These host speakers will also briefly reflect on their own relations to, problems with, and future plans for this term. From these starting points, we look forward to informal but substantial dialogues that speak to the term's flexibility and vitality across our many disciplines and projects.
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the Gender Studies Undergraduate Board and Sex Week present
a lecture by
Katherine Frank
author of G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
7:00-9:00 pm
Annenberg Hall G21
2120 Campus Drive
Northwestern University
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Keeping Company With Oneself
(Arendt on Eichmann contra Kant)
a lecture by JUDITH BUTLER (University of California-Berkeley)
Followed by a round table with Judith Butler and responses from:
PEG BIRMINGHAM, Philosophy, De Paul University
MARY DIETZ, Political Science Northwestern University
SUSANNAH GOTTLIEB, English Northwestern University
LINDA ZERILLI, Political Science University Of Chicago
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APRIL 16, 2009, 2:30-5:30 pm
Tech Auditorium LR2-Lecture Room 2 (L171)
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston Campus
Sponsored by the Kreeger Wolf Lecture Fund, the Department of Philosophy, the Program of Jewish Studies, the Program of Comparative Literary Studies, and the Program of Gender Studies at Northwestern University with further support from the Department of Political Science, Northwestern and the Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
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A Jihad for Love
film screening and discussion
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Monday, November 24, 2008
5:30-7:30 pm
Kresge Hall 2-359
1880 Campus Drive
Northwestern University
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Teaching Rebellion
The Teaching Rebellion speaking tour aims to foster dialogue among activists from Oaxaca and the U.S. around organizing strategies and movement building, utilizing the experience of Oaxacan organizers, who brought together labor, indigenous, women's, youth, and neighborhood organizations to build a powerful movement for democracy and accountability.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
6:00-8:00 pm
Kresge Hall 2-359
1880 Campus Drive
Northwestern University
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Transsexual and Transfeminine Perspectives on Sexism
A public lecture by Julia Serano
... presented by the Gender Studies Undergraduate Board
Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, spoken word performer, trans activist, and biologist. Julia is the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007), a collection of personal essays that reveal how misogyny frames popular assumptions about femininity and shapes many of the myths and misconceptions people have about transsexual women.
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Thursday, May 15 , 2008
5:30 PM
University Hall 122
Northwestern University
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Black Student Revolt at Northwestern: Reflections After 40 Years
a lecture by John Bracey
Dr. John H. Bracey, Jr. has been a member of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1972. He previously taught Afro-American history at Northern Illinois University and the University of Rochester. While completing graduate work at Northwestern, Bracey was a student organizer of the occupation of the Bursar's Office to demand the founding of a Black Studies program.
This event is co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department, the Department of Art Theory and Practice, and the Gender Studies Program. It is co-endorsed by the Peace Project.
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Thursday, May 8 , 2008
5 PM
University Hall 102
Northwestern University
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Actor Slash Model
... presented by the Gender Studies Undergraduate Board
Through both music and film Actor Slash Model addresses issues of gender identity, gender performance and politics, a sex positive ideal, and the art-making process.
They will present their documentary chronicling gender identity and performance as it surrounds musicianship, followed by their "indie-grass" music performance.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
7 PM
Kresge Hall 2-380
Northwestern University
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Narrating Identity
Michelle Citron will give an artist's talk about her films, which illustrate the relationship between narration, identity formation, truth, and fiction.
A Gender Studies Undergraduate Board event, co-sponsored by the departments of Performance Studies, RTVF, and Art Theory and Practice.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
5 PM
McCormick Tribune Center 3-127
Northwestern University
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If Brokeback was Black
Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. writes about and teaches popular culture, critical race/gender/sexuality theory, masculinities, whiteness studies, and 20th-century African American literature and culture. McCune, a Northwestern Performance Studies Ph.D., has been a Frederick Douglass Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, as well as a faculty associate in the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, at the University of Rochester. He is currently working on a book entitled Quaring the Closet: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Sexual Passing, a project centered on the "Down Low," interrogating traditional notions of the closet, and emphasizing minoritized experiences and constructions of queerness/quareness.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
4 PM
University Hall 102
Northwestern University
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Troubadour Poems from the South of France
A Reading and Discussion with translators
William D. Paden and Frances Freeman Paden
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Monday, January 28, 2008
4:00 P.M.
University Hall 201
(The Hagstrum Room)
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Refreshments and book signing to follow
Sponsored by the French and Italian Department, the Writing Program, the Gender Studies Program, the Center for Writing Arts, and the Medieval Colloquium
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Undergraduate Board Fall Colloquium
Autonomy and Solidarity: Gender and the Zapatista Movement
A Presentation by the Mexico Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
5:30 P.M.
Kresge Hall 2-380
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Dinner Provided
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Chicago Area Women's and Gender Studies
Job, Internship, and Volunteer Fair
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Friday, October 26, 2007
12-4 P.M.
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL
Contact gender@northwestern.edu if you are
interested in traveling to the fair with other students.
