Tuesday, September 7th

370 Dwinelle Hall
5pm

Martin F. Manalansan IV
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

New Gay Meccas and Plush Condos: Queer Lives, Violence and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City


Co-sponsored by: The Center for Race and Gender, and the Departments of Anthropology and South & SouthEast Asian Studies

CSSC

Wednesday, September 8th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
noon

Martin Manalansan IV
Assistant Professor of Anthropology / Assistant Professor of Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Book discussion: "Global Divas"


Prof. Lawrence Cohen (UC Berkeley, Anthropology) will lead a discussion of Prof. Manalansan's book: "Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora"

CSSC

Thursday, September 16th

370 Dwinelle Hall
5pm

Leo Bersani
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature, French & Rhetoric

Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Subject

Related Event: A lunchtime chat with Leo Bersani & Didier Eribon, Thursday, Sept. 16_ Noon _ French Library, 4229 Dwinelle Hall

CSSC

Thursday, September 30th

Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
5pm

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

The Weather in Proust

Related Event:  A lunchtime chat with Didier Eribon & Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Thursday, Sept. 30 _ Noon _ 370 Dwinelle Hall

CSSC

Friday, October 15th

901 Wurster Hall
12:30 - 2:00 pm

Michael Brown, Larry Knopp and Angie McCarrell

The Making of a Map: Collective Process and Representations of Seatlle\'s Lesbian and Gay Historical Geography


CSSC

Tuesday, October 19th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
4pm

Carole Joffe & Khadine Bennett

Reproductive Rights: What's at Stake in the November Election?


In this forum, two experts will assess the upcoming election through the lens of history and the current status of women's reproductive rights in the U.S. and globally.

BBRG

Tuesday, October 19th

UC Berkeley Art Museum Theater
4pm

Valerie Maynard
A sociall committed interdisciplinary artist known for her multimedia work and for her public comission, mostly in the East Coast.

An Artist's Lecture


A native of New York CIty, Maynard currently lives in Baltimore. Her one-person shows have appeared in New York, Sweden and Nigeria. This event is co-sponsored by the Depts. of Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies and Art Practice and the Center for Race and Gender.

BBRG

Thursday, October 21st

Kroeber Hall, Room 120
5pm

Catherine Lord
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, Women's Studies, Art Practice & Disability Studies

The Summer of Her Baldness, A Cancer Improvisation


Catherine Lord is a writer, artist, and Curator whose work addresses issues of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism. She is Professor of Studio Art and affiliated faculty, Dept. of Women's Studies & Art History at UC Irvine.

CSSC

Tuesday, October 26th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
4:30pm

Leigh Gilmore
Women's Studies, UCB

How We Confess Now: Photographs from Abu Ghraib

Co-sponsored by The Dept. of Women's Studies & The Beatrice M. Bain Research Group
A discussion on the Abu Ghraib photographs and how they altered the production of truth around the current war in Iraq.

CSSC

Wednesday, November 10th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
5:00 pm

Daniel Boyarin
Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric

Platonic Love in the Talmud: Why is Rabbi Yonanan a Woman?, or, a Queer Marriage Gone Bad


CSSC

Friday, November 12th

Geballe Room, Towsend Center for the Humanities
12, noon

Elizabeth Kennedy
Professor of Women's Studies, University of Arizona

'I was accused of being a bastard:' Tensions of Childhood, Western, New York, 1906 - 1915


Oral historian & Award-winning co-author of the book _Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community_, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy speaks about her new research and forthcoming book which examines race, class, and sexuality in the context of an oral-history based biography.

CSSC

Wednesday, November 17th

370 Dwinelle Hall
5:00 pm

Éric Fassin
Sociologist, École normale supérieure, Paris

The Rise and Fall of Sexual Politics in France and the U.S. since the 1970s


CSSC