Thursday, March 7th - Saturday, March 9th
CSSC Inaugural Conference



Thursday, March 7th

370 Dwinelle
7.30pm

Gilbert Herdt
San Francisco State University

Sexual Culture and Human Right after the Cold War


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Friday, March 8th

370 Dwinelle
10.30am

Geeta Patel
Wellesly College

South Asia, the Diasporia, and Sexuality


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Friday, March 8th

370 Dwinelle
1.00pm

Elizabeth Povinelli
University of Chicago

Notes on Gridlock:
Genealogy, Intimacy, and New Social Imaginaries


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Friday, March 8th

370 Dwinelle
3.00pm

Paisley Currah
Brooklyn College

Not the United States of Gender:
Identity, Expression, and Transgender Civil Rights


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Friday, March 8th

370 Dwinelle
5.00pm

Carla Freccero
UC Santa Cruz

Heteroerotic Homoeroticism


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Saturday, March 9th

Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler)
10am

Panel 1:
Differing Working Definitions of Sexuality and Sexual Culture

Eliyahou Farajajé (Graduate Theological Union)
Adele E. Clark (Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF)
Jennifer M. Spear (History, UCB)
Dawne Moon (Sociology, UCB)


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Saturday, March 9th

Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler)
1pm

Panel Discussion 2:
Mapping the Field Today

Anjali Arondekar (Women's Studies, UCSC)
Judith Halberstam (Literature, UCSD)
Lisa Rofel (Anthropology, UCSC)
Miranda Joseph (Women's Studies, University of Arizona)


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Saturday, March 9th

Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler)
3.30pm

Panel 3:
Events and Emergences in the Study of Sexual Culture

Jody Greene (Literature, UCSC)
Vernon Rosario (UCLA Neuro-psychiatric Institute)
Jennifer Terry (Comparative Studies, Ohio State University)


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Conference Co-Sponsors: University of California Humanities Research Institute; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; Dean of the Arts and Humanities, Dean of the Social Sciences, English Department, Rhetoric Department, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Center for Race and Gender
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Thursday, March 14th

A Roundtable with James Turner
On his new book, Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630-1685

Participants:


James Grantham Turner (English),
Lawrence Cohen (Anthropology),
Timothy Hampton (French and Comparative Literature),
Ralph Hexter (Classics and Comparative Literature, Dean of Arts and Humanities)

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Monday, April 1st

Carolyn Dinshaw
New York University

GLQ in Malaysia:
LGBT Studies, Censorship, and Other Transnational Problems


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Tuesday, April 2nd

Karma Lochrie
Indiana University

Before Sex Was Normal:
Heterosexuality and Deviance in Medieval Culture


with a response by Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University
Co-sponsored with the Department of Medieval Studies

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