Spring 2015 Calendar of Events
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Fri, February 6th | ROOM TBA | 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Come celebrate the new year and semester with CLAGS and QUNY Become involved and learn about the exciting work in LGBTQ issues by faculty and students at
the CUNY Graduate Center and beyond
Weds, February 11| CUNY Graduate Center | Room C205 | 6:30pm — 8:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society, philosopher Ellen Feder will present an extension of her latest book on intersexuality providing a
fuller account of the ethical questions raised by the medical management of atypical sex anatomies in children. Dr. Feder will explore issues of remorse and repair
within interventions to intersex bodies by medical professionals and parents
Fri, February 20 | CUNY Graduate Center | Room C198 | 6°00pm-9.00pm
As systems of oppression that coalesce around queerness and disability are intimately intertwined, efforts to foreground the interrelations between compulsory
heterosexuality and compulsory able-bodiedness have informed both movements over the last few decades. This roundtable features current research from scholars
Cathy Hannabach, Robert McRuer Cynthia Wu, reflecting upon the past, present, and future of theorizing and organizing at the intersection of queerness and
disability’ In what ways have theorizing and activism around queemess and disability influenced, shaped, and challenged each other? How does work around
queerness and disability continue to occlude consideration of each other? What would it mean to imagine a future in which questions around queerness and disability
are centered intersectionally? Moderated by Akemi Nishida
Mon, February 23 | CUNY Graduate Center | 9th FI Skylight Room | 6-°00pm-9:00pm
As the population of seniors in the U.S. steadily increases, discussions about quality of life and care for seniors often assumes readily available familial networks and
support from children. This assumption fails to account for LGBTQ and other seniors with alternative forms of kinship systems, while LGBTQ political organizing rarely
accounts for concems specific to elderly populations. How might centering LGBTQ seniors shift the ways we think about aging and care? And, how might centering
aging broaden and reorient queer politics? This event stages an important dialogue between scholar-organizers Anna Muraco and Nancy Giunta, providing valuable
insight based on their scholarship and activism
Thurs, March 12 | CUNY Graduate Center | 9th Fl Skylight Room | 6:00pm-8.00pm
Che Gossett, winner of CLAGS’ 2014 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies, examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle, by
excavating June Jordan and James Baldwin's archives for what José Mufioz called the performative force of the past and its import for current prison abolitionist
Palestinian solidarity and anti-pinkwashing movements. Gosset explores what George Jackson's original manuscript of Soledad Brother reveals about Palestinian
poetics, black radicalism, prison abolition and the afterlife of slavery.
Friday, March 27, 2015 | CUNY Graduate Center | Segal Theater | 7 30pm - 9:30pm
Swedish choreographer and performer Carl Olof Berg presents a two-part performance from his masculinity project, titled "The Andrology Showroom" Part 1 is titled
an “A guided tour of the men's club," (limit 30 - RSVP necessary) and Part 2 is "Spansta med Birgitta" or “Get fit with Birgitta.”
April 8-10 | John Jay College, CUNY | 524 W 59th St. | 9°00am-6 00pm
Sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and CLAGS, the LGBTQ Scholars of Color Conference will gather a national group of LGBTQ people of color involve!
in research, evaluation, and scholarship to build a vibrant network of queer Scholars of Color and to foster a pipeline for emerging LGBTQ Scholars of Colo
Participants will have opportunities to be mentored by senior scholars, to meet others LGBTQ scholars of color from all over the country, and to gain skills in advance
methodological methods, grant writing, navigating the tenure process, etc. Space is limited
All events are free and open to the public.
(212) 817 1955 Additional information and RSVP links
info@clags.org
facebook comiclags.org may be found at www.clags.org
CENTER FOR LGBTQ STUDIES twitter.com/clagsny
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April 15] Holiday Inn Midtown |440 w 57th street | 12 00pm — 6:00pm
The 7th Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair is America’s oldest LGBTQ book fair and the largest LGBTQ book event in the country featuring over 100 publishers
writers, poets, editors, booksellers, and the 1000+ readers who love and buy queer books. This event is free and open to the public. Visit www.rainbowbookfair. org
April 16 | CUNY Graduate Center |Room 9207 | 7:30pm — 9:30pm
Professor of Gender and American Studies at Indiana University Marlon M. Bailey presents his rich first-person performance ethnography and memoir of dance, dress.
and vogue ballroom competitions in Detroit's black and Latino queer communities. By sharing his stories and experiences Bailey demonstrates the ways such cultural
formations are spaces of resistance that disrupt dominant notions of gender, sexuality, and community, and create alternative kinship structures
April 22 | CUNY Graduate Center | Segal Theater | 7.00pm-9.30pm
For decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender—and her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant
polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering gender outlaw. This documentary joins her on her latest tour capturing rollicking public
performances and painful personal revelations as it bears witness to Kate as a trailblazing artist-theorist-activist who inhabits a space between male and female with
wit, style and astonishing candor. The film invites us on Kate's journey to seek answers to some of life’s biggest questions. Q&A with director Sam Feder to follow
May 1-3 | Hunter College, CUNY | West Building (SW corner of 68th & Lex)
The LGBT Health Workforce Conference provides an overview of up-to-date practices climate and educational) in preparing the health care workforce to address the
health concerns of LGBT communities. This conference is designed for health professionals (M.D D.O. PA-C. nurses, dentists podiatrists, social workers
Psychologists, etc.), educators, and students (pre-health professions, professional schools and graduate), but all interested are invited to attend To register visit
http://bngap.org/Igbthwfconf/
May 7-8 | CUNY Graduate Center
Keynote speakers. Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse
The Queers & Comics Conference will celebrate, explore, and analyze queer cartoonists comics writers, and artists’ work, offering opportunity to share information
about their craft, to document the history and significance of queer comics, and to share strategies on navigating the comics industry. The conference spans two days
and will offer panels, workshops, portfolio reviews, and slideshow presentations as well as an exhibition of queer cartoon art. All events at the conference will be live
streamed
Friday, March 27, 2015 | CUNY Graduate Center | Segal Theater7:30pm - 9:30pm
KSwedish choreographer and performer Carl Olof Berg presents a two-part performance from his masculinity project, titled "The Andrology Showroom" Part 1 is titled
an "A guided tour of the men's club," (limit 30 - RSVP necessary) and Part 2 is "Spansta med Birgitta" or “Get fit with Birgitta.”
MARCH| CUNY Graduate Center | ROOM?| TIMES???
Founder of queer studies at the Centar za Kvir Studije at Belgrade's Institute of Philosophy, activist and philosopher Dusan Maljkovic discusses queer studies and
issues in contemporary Serbia and neighboring Balkan regions.
All events are free and open to the public.
(212) 817 1955 Additional information and RSVP links
info@clags.org
facebook.com/clags.org may be found at www.clags.org
CENTER FOR LGBTQ STUDIES twitter.comiclagsny
Fri, February 6th | ROOM TBA | 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Come celebrate the new year and semester with CLAGS and QUNY Become involved and learn about the exciting work in LGBTQ issues by faculty and students at
the CUNY Graduate Center and beyond
Weds, February 11| CUNY Graduate Center | Room C205 | 6:30pm — 8:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society, philosopher Ellen Feder will present an extension of her latest book on intersexuality providing a
fuller account of the ethical questions raised by the medical management of atypical sex anatomies in children. Dr. Feder will explore issues of remorse and repair
within interventions to intersex bodies by medical professionals and parents
Fri, February 20 | CUNY Graduate Center | Room C198 | 6°00pm-9.00pm
As systems of oppression that coalesce around queerness and disability are intimately intertwined, efforts to foreground the interrelations between compulsory
heterosexuality and compulsory able-bodiedness have informed both movements over the last few decades. This roundtable features current research from scholars
Cathy Hannabach, Robert McRuer Cynthia Wu, reflecting upon the past, present, and future of theorizing and organizing at the intersection of queerness and
disability’ In what ways have theorizing and activism around queemess and disability influenced, shaped, and challenged each other? How does work around
queerness and disability continue to occlude consideration of each other? What would it mean to imagine a future in which questions around queerness and disability
are centered intersectionally? Moderated by Akemi Nishida
Mon, February 23 | CUNY Graduate Center | 9th FI Skylight Room | 6-°00pm-9:00pm
As the population of seniors in the U.S. steadily increases, discussions about quality of life and care for seniors often assumes readily available familial networks and
support from children. This assumption fails to account for LGBTQ and other seniors with alternative forms of kinship systems, while LGBTQ political organizing rarely
accounts for concems specific to elderly populations. How might centering LGBTQ seniors shift the ways we think about aging and care? And, how might centering
aging broaden and reorient queer politics? This event stages an important dialogue between scholar-organizers Anna Muraco and Nancy Giunta, providing valuable
insight based on their scholarship and activism
Thurs, March 12 | CUNY Graduate Center | 9th Fl Skylight Room | 6:00pm-8.00pm
Che Gossett, winner of CLAGS’ 2014 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies, examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle, by
excavating June Jordan and James Baldwin's archives for what José Mufioz called the performative force of the past and its import for current prison abolitionist
Palestinian solidarity and anti-pinkwashing movements. Gosset explores what George Jackson's original manuscript of Soledad Brother reveals about Palestinian
poetics, black radicalism, prison abolition and the afterlife of slavery.
Friday, March 27, 2015 | CUNY Graduate Center | Segal Theater | 7 30pm - 9:30pm
Swedish choreographer and performer Carl Olof Berg presents a two-part performance from his masculinity project, titled "The Andrology Showroom" Part 1 is titled
an “A guided tour of the men's club," (limit 30 - RSVP necessary) and Part 2 is "Spansta med Birgitta" or “Get fit with Birgitta.”
April 8-10 | John Jay College, CUNY | 524 W 59th St. | 9°00am-6 00pm
Sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and CLAGS, the LGBTQ Scholars of Color Conference will gather a national group of LGBTQ people of color involve!
in research, evaluation, and scholarship to build a vibrant network of queer Scholars of Color and to foster a pipeline for emerging LGBTQ Scholars of Colo
Participants will have opportunities to be mentored by senior scholars, to meet others LGBTQ scholars of color from all over the country, and to gain skills in advance
methodological methods, grant writing, navigating the tenure process, etc. Space is limited
All events are free and open to the public.
(212) 817 1955 Additional information and RSVP links
info@clags.org
facebook comiclags.org may be found at www.clags.org
CENTER FOR LGBTQ STUDIES twitter.com/clagsny
Spring 2015 i
April 15] Holiday Inn Midtown |440 w 57th street | 12 00pm — 6:00pm
The 7th Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair is America’s oldest LGBTQ book fair and the largest LGBTQ book event in the country featuring over 100 publishers
writers, poets, editors, booksellers, and the 1000+ readers who love and buy queer books. This event is free and open to the public. Visit www.rainbowbookfair. org
April 16 | CUNY Graduate Center |Room 9207 | 7:30pm — 9:30pm
Professor of Gender and American Studies at Indiana University Marlon M. Bailey presents his rich first-person performance ethnography and memoir of dance, dress.
and vogue ballroom competitions in Detroit's black and Latino queer communities. By sharing his stories and experiences Bailey demonstrates the ways such cultural
formations are spaces of resistance that disrupt dominant notions of gender, sexuality, and community, and create alternative kinship structures
April 22 | CUNY Graduate Center | Segal Theater | 7.00pm-9.30pm
For decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender—and her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant
polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering gender outlaw. This documentary joins her on her latest tour capturing rollicking public
performances and painful personal revelations as it bears witness to Kate as a trailblazing artist-theorist-activist who inhabits a space between male and female with
wit, style and astonishing candor. The film invites us on Kate's journey to seek answers to some of life’s biggest questions. Q&A with director Sam Feder to follow
May 1-3 | Hunter College, CUNY | West Building (SW corner of 68th & Lex)
The LGBT Health Workforce Conference provides an overview of up-to-date practices climate and educational) in preparing the health care workforce to address the
health concerns of LGBT communities. This conference is designed for health professionals (M.D D.O. PA-C. nurses, dentists podiatrists, social workers
Psychologists, etc.), educators, and students (pre-health professions, professional schools and graduate), but all interested are invited to attend To register visit
http://bngap.org/Igbthwfconf/
May 7-8 | CUNY Graduate Center
Keynote speakers. Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse
The Queers & Comics Conference will celebrate, explore, and analyze queer cartoonists comics writers, and artists’ work, offering opportunity to share information
about their craft, to document the history and significance of queer comics, and to share strategies on navigating the comics industry. The conference spans two days
and will offer panels, workshops, portfolio reviews, and slideshow presentations as well as an exhibition of queer cartoon art. All events at the conference will be live
streamed
Friday, March 27, 2015 | CUNY Graduate Center | Segal Theater7:30pm - 9:30pm
KSwedish choreographer and performer Carl Olof Berg presents a two-part performance from his masculinity project, titled "The Andrology Showroom" Part 1 is titled
an "A guided tour of the men's club," (limit 30 - RSVP necessary) and Part 2 is "Spansta med Birgitta" or “Get fit with Birgitta.”
MARCH| CUNY Graduate Center | ROOM?| TIMES???
Founder of queer studies at the Centar za Kvir Studije at Belgrade's Institute of Philosophy, activist and philosopher Dusan Maljkovic discusses queer studies and
issues in contemporary Serbia and neighboring Balkan regions.
All events are free and open to the public.
(212) 817 1955 Additional information and RSVP links
info@clags.org
facebook.com/clags.org may be found at www.clags.org
CENTER FOR LGBTQ STUDIES twitter.comiclagsny
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Spring 2015 Calendar of Events
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This item shows the events sponsored by CLAGS during the Spring 2015 semester. The diversity and range of events throughout the semester, including topics such as an intersectional look at queerness and disability and Swedish choreographer Carl Olof Berg’s two-part performance on masculinity, demonstrates CLAGS’ commitment to all forms of queer studies and in particular new developments to the field. Every spring CLAGS also helps sponsor the Rainbow Book Fair as well as at least one conference. For 2015, CLAGS helped to sponsor: the LGBTQ Scholars of Color Conference, the 2015 LGBT Health Conference, and Queers & Comics.
Although formally instituted at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1991, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies was first conceived 5 years earlier by Martin, Duberman, one of the first historians to embrace the, then infantile, field of Queer Studies. Duberman sensed the need for a formal center devoted to queer research. As the first university-based center for LGBTQ research, CLAGS continues to demonstrate its dedication to advancing Queer Studies, by hosting public events showcasing queer research and sponsoring fellowships to support queer scholars. Among its many notable contributions, CLAGS annually puts on at least one major conference and holds the Kessler Award Lecture every fall to celebrate a queer scholar who has made a notable contribution to the field of queer studies.
Although formally instituted at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1991, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies was first conceived 5 years earlier by Martin, Duberman, one of the first historians to embrace the, then infantile, field of Queer Studies. Duberman sensed the need for a formal center devoted to queer research. As the first university-based center for LGBTQ research, CLAGS continues to demonstrate its dedication to advancing Queer Studies, by hosting public events showcasing queer research and sponsoring fellowships to support queer scholars. Among its many notable contributions, CLAGS annually puts on at least one major conference and holds the Kessler Award Lecture every fall to celebrate a queer scholar who has made a notable contribution to the field of queer studies.
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CLAGS
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CLAGS
Date
2015 (Circa)
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English
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7912
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CLAGS. Letter. 2015. “Spring 2015 Calendar of Events”. 7912, 2015, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1307