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Tuesday, January 23rd

UC Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way
5:30 - 7:30pm

Michael Lucey
Director of CSSC, Chair of the Dept. of French, UCB

Michael Lucey, author of
Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust

with Nicholas Paige, translator of Zayde
and Debrati Sanyal, author of The Violence of Modernity


CSSC

Wednesday, January 31st

Gender Equity Resource Center (202 Cesar Chavez)
5-7pm

GenEq's Semester KickOff
Bring a friend who doesn’t know about GenEq!! Everyone welcome!

*DECORATE CLOTHES! Bring bags, clothes, etc you want to personalize – we’ll provide the fabric paint and stencils. *Meet new folks and/or see old friends. *What is GenEq? Learn more about us and how to get involved. *Student group orientation on how to use GenEq’s space. *Snacks provided.


GENEQ

Sunday, February 4th

Stern Hall (in the Foothill Dorms at Hearst and Gayley)
9:30am-5:30pm - FREE!

Defining Her-izons: Issues. Identity. Our World.
Includes keynote speaker Aya de Leon, workshops, resource fair and networking opportunities, and a social event.

The mission of the Defining Her-izons conference is to create a welcoming environment for women* to engage in and explore current issues, their identity and the way they shape the world. Participants will network and learn about resources and opportunities on campus and beyond. This conference will empower, inspire and energize. *We define women as anyone who has, ever will, or currently does identify as a woman.


GENEQ

Tuesday, February 13th

3401 Dwinelle Hall
5pm

CSSC Queer of Color Reading Group #1

Selections from E. Patrick Johnson Appropiriation Blackness and
the Introduction to Black Queer Studies ed. E.Patrick Johnson & Mae G. Henderson

reading material on: CSSC b-space -- https://bspace.berkeley.edu/portal


CSSC

Thursday, February 15th

370 Dwinelle Hall
4 to 5:30

Caroline Streeter
Asst. Prof, English & African American Studies, UCLA

From Tragic Mulatta to Race Woman: Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry & the Politics of Hollywood Film


GWS

Friday, February 16th

Wurster Auditorium
Friday afternoon thru Saturday evening

What's Left of Life Conference

In the wake of recent public debates that question the efficacy and relevance of university scholarship to social life, this conference addresses problems that are literally a matter of life and death:
ongoing wars, genocides, epidemics, genomics, life extension technologies, assisted reproduction, pharmaceuticals and potential stem-cell therapeutics.


Event cosponsored by the
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture


CSSC

Saturday, February 17th

First Congregational Church of Oakland
1 p.m.

Memorial Celebration
Author, Feminist, Activist

Memorial Celebration of Tillie Olsen's Life


GWS

Monday, March 5th

370 Dwinellw Hall
5pm

E. Patrick Johnson
Northwestern University

Lecture
Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales

cosponsored by:
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Note: the CSSC Queer of Color Reading Group #1
(see Feb. 13 entry above)
will read selections of Professor Johnson's work
material is found on the CSSC b-space
https://bspace.berkeley.edu/portal


cssc


Tuesday, March 6th

3401 Dwinellw Hall
noon

E. Patrick Johnson
Northwestern University

"brown bag" lunch discussion


cssc


Wednesday, March 7th

370 Dwinelle Hall
6 pm

Queering Adolescence Film Festival
GWS Undergraduate Association


ADA Accessible, Free Popcorn, Join Us!

GWS

Tuesday, March 20th

3401 Dwinelle Hall
5pm

CSSC Queer of Color Reading Group #2

Selections from Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

reading material on: CSSC b-space -- https://bspace.berkeley.edu/portal


CSSC

Thursday, March 22nd

208 Barrows Hall
4 to 5:30

Sonya Michel
Sociologist

City Center: San Francisco and the Struggle for GLBT Social Citizenship


GWS

Wednesday, April 4th

370 Dwinelle Hall
6 p.m.

Queering Adolescence Film Festival
GWS Undergraduate Association

"The Iron Ladies" (drama/comedy)


ADA Accessible, Free Popcorn, Join Us!

GWS

Wednesday, April 4th

Multicultural Center at Heller Loung, 1st Floor MLK Student Union
6pm

Black Men Portraying Black Women
Norbit, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Norbit, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Big Mama's House and more... "What are we sacrificing for the humor of these movies?" "Are black men playing minstrels of black women?" "Are these images creating an "us" vs. "us" mentality between thin black women and large black women?" Join us to watch clips of these movies and others. A discussion of the representation of black women in film, the use of black women stereotypes as comedy and other surrounding issues will follow. A student panel will start our discussion.

For more information, contact Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu


GENEQ

Wednesday, April 4th

Multicultural Center at Heller Lounge, 1st Floor MLK Student Union
6pm

Black Men Portraying Black Women
Norbit, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Big Mama's House and more...


GENEQ

Thursday, April 5th

691 Barrows Hall
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Vielka C. Hoy & Asia Leeds
African Diaspora Studies

UC Berkeley Afro-Latino Working Group



Thursday, April 12th

370 Dwinelle
4 - 6:30pm

Corporeal Intimacies of Power:
Race, Gender, Sexuality & the Politics of Place

a panel discussion hosted by
the
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture

Presentations by
Marlon Bailey, Chris Roebuck, Gayle Rubin, Susan Stryker


CSSC

Friday, April 13th

Date Change!

CSSC Lecture by Rebekah Edwards
Lecture has been rescheduled to Fall 2007
Please check back for details next Fall


CSSC

Tuesday, April 17th

3401 Dwinelle Hall
5pm

CSSC Queer of Color Reading Group #3

David Eng,
RACIAL CASTRATION: Managing Masculinity in Asian America

reading material on: CSSC b-space -- https://bspace.berkeley.edu/portal


CSSC

Wednesday, May 2nd

370 Dwinelle Hall
6 p.m.

Queering Adolescence Film Festival
GWS Undergraduate Association

"My Life in Pink" (drama)


ADA Accessible, Free Popcorn, Join Us!

GWS

Monday, May 7th

3335 Dwinelle Hall
noon

Leslie Walton Monstavicius
2006-07 CSSC Fellow Lecture, >Department of English, UCB

<i><b>A New Heloise: 
</b>Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 
and Pedagogical Desire

CSSC

Tuesday, May 8th

3401 Dwinelle Hall
5pm

CSSC Queer of Color Reading Group #4

David Eng's, Introduction & Chapter 1 of
RACIAL CASTRATION: Managing Masculinity in Asian America

and a slection from Freud's
General Psychological Theory

reading material on: CSSC b-space -- https://bspace.berkeley.edu/portal


CSSC