Ongoing Events:

190 Barrows Hall: CSSC Working Group:Violence, Pleasure, and Writing
Transgressing and Policing: the Laws and Limits of Desire

CSSC Working Group:Violence, Pleasure, and Writing

November 2009


GWS Fall Colloquia - Patty Berne

Patty Berne, Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid

Lecture, 20 Barrows Hall
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Patty Berne will share a disability justice perspective in which she contrasts the medical and social models of disability, cross-movement organizing, and the role of cultural work in health, sexuality, race, gender, and disability.  She is a Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid. Berne's background includes advocacy for immigrants who seek asylum due to war and torture; community organizing within the Haitian diaspora; international support work for the Guatemalan democratic movement; work with incarcerated youth toward alternatives to the criminal legal system; advocating for LGBTQI community and disability rights perspectives within the field of reproductive and genetic technologies; offering mental health support to survivors of violence; and cultural activism to centralize marginalized voices, particularly those of people with disabilities. She is pursuing a Psy.D. focusing on trauma and healing for survivors of interpersonal and state-sponsored violence. In 2008, she had a chapter published in the Routledge Press book, Telling Stories to Change the World, on the work and history of Sins Invalid. She currently chairs the Board of Directors at San Francisco Women Against Rape and is the 2009 recipient of the Empress I Jose Sarria Award for Uncommon Leadership in the field of LGBTQI and disability rights by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

 

Sins Invalid is a performance project on disability and sexuality that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized from social discourse. Sins Invalid recognizes that we will be liberated as whole beings – as disabled/as queer/as brown/as black/as genderqueer/as female- or male-bodied – as we are far greater whole than partitioned. We recognize that our allies emerge from many communities and that demographic identity alone does not determine one's commitment to liberation.

 

Sins Invalid is committed to social and economic justice for all people with disabilities – in lockdowns, in shelters, on the streets, visibly disabled, invisibly disabled, sensory minority, environmentally injured, psychiatric survivors – moving beyond individual legal rights to collective human rights. 

 

Li Ka Shing Program in Gender and Science in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies


Senator Mark Leno - The Future of LGBT California

(D-San Francisco)

Senator Mark Leno, (D-San Francisco)

Keynote Address, West Pauley Ballroom, 2nd Floor MLK Building
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

 

 

Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)
The Future of LGBT California

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
5:00-6:30pm
West Pauley Ballroom, 2nd Floor MLK Building

 

 

Come hear Senator Leno speak on the future of the movement for transgender inclusion, LGBT seniors and youth, and same-sex marriage in California, and the US.  More information to come!

Cosponsored by the Gender Equity Resource Center, Cal Berkeley Democrats and the Student Coalition for Marriage Equality.

For disability-related accommodations see access.berkeley.edu.
For more information see geneq.berkeley.edu/markleno.
Questions? Email Marisa at tallgirl@berkeley.edu

 

Check this event out on Facebook!

 

Gender Equity Resource Center, Cal Berkeley Democrats, Student Coalition for Marriage Equality


Decoding Desire: Interpreting Women & Same-Sex Desire in Early Film & 19th Century Literature

CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, November 19, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Passion and (Margaret) Sweat: Reconsidering Ethel’s Love-Life (1858)
Prof. Dorri Beam, English

Becoming Lesbians: Reading Cross-dressing in Early US Film
Laura Horak, Film Studie
 
More details:
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/decoding-desire

Center for Race and Gender


Feminisms in Latin America and the Challenges of Diversity in the XXI Century

Virginia Vargas

Lecture, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Friday, November 20, 2009
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Virginia Vargas is a Peruvian sociologist, political scientist, and feminist militant. In 1978 she founded the Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán (The Flora Tristán Center for Peruvian Women), and is still active with the center today.  Vargas has been involved in numerous other feminist and activist networks and initiatives, locally and globally, most recently with the Articulación Feminista Marcosur (The Marcosur Feminist Articulation), a Latin American feminist political network. Vargas was the Latin American and Caribbean NGO Coordinator to the NGO Forum held in September, 1995, on occasion of the Fourth World UN Conference on Women in Beijing, China.  In Beijing, Vargas received a UNIFEM Award.  Vargas is on the Advisory Council for the Democracia y Transformacion Global (Democracy and Globlal Transformation Program) at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Lima, Perú.  Since 2001 Vargas has been actively involved in the processes of the World Social Forum, as a member of its International Committee, and on behalf of the Articulación Feminista Marcosur.

Organized by: The Global Commons Foundation

Co-sponsored by: Beatrice Bain Research Group


BBRG PRESENTS: A Lecture by BBRG Scholar Carla Risseeuw

Lecture, tbd
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM


Sexual Cultures at Berkeley: D. Rita Alfonso

CSSC Lecture Series

Professor D. Rita Alfonso, (Department of Gender and Women's Studies)
Professor Daniel Boyarin, (CSSC)
Professor Ewa Majewska, (BBRG)

Lecture, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Monday, November 30, 2009
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

The Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures presents the first in our 2009-2010 series of lectures by UCB faculty: Professor D. Rita Alfonso will present an essay on queer phenomenology: "Permeability and Impermeability in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus."


Center for the Study of Sexual Culture


December 2009


The Persisting Plantation: Laborers in the Field & Literature

CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, December 3, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

The Costs of Certified Food: Just Pineapple Production in Costa Rica
Dr. Sang Lee, College of Natural Resources

Little Gold Piece: The Production of Fetish Value in Corregidora
Dr. Alia Pan, Center for Race & Gender

Detailed info:
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/persisting-plantation

Center for Race and Gender


FRICTION (Dissertation Workshop)

Writing Sexuality

Workshop, 254 Barrows Hall
Sunday, December 6, 2009
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Doctoral students whose work focuses on sexuality
are invited to participate in an

Interdisciplinary Dissertation Workshop
Sunday, December 6, 2009

 

Designed to encourage and assist both students who are just beginning dissertation work, as well as those who are farther along, the workshop creates the opportunity for dialogue among scholars from different disciplines who are writing on sexual culture. The workshop, facilitated by professors in the field, features intensive discussion of individual projects, as well as the larger theoretical and methodological issues that they raise.

 

Lunch will be served.

 

To apply:

email your
dissertation proposal and current C.V.

(as attachments) to cssc@berkeley.edu

Applications due Monday, October 26, 2009

Center for the Study of Sexual Culture


February 2010


BBRG PRESENTS: BBRG Annual Keynote Lecture - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Situating Feminism

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

Lecture, The Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Friday, February 26, 2010
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

 NEW DATE!!

This presentation will attempt to situate feminism geographically, in terms of the triumph of the Euro-specific (even Anglo-specific) model, in terms of the history of both of Marxism and Capitalism. It will trace feminism’s itinerary through both coloniality and globalization. It  will also attempt to situate feminism historically in terms of the provenance of what we at radical U.S. universities call feminism and see how it reflects on the development of mobility among women in terms of not only capital but also the great engines of world governance.


Organized by: Beatrice Bain Research Group

Co-sponsored by: Department of Gender and Women's Studies - Li Ka Shing; Department of Comparative Literature,  Department of Rhetoric, Department of Sociology, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, English Department, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Geography, and the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory

Beatrice M. Bain Research Group


March 2010


BBRG PRESENTS: ‘Fat. Gay. Gay. Fat.’

Toward a Comparative Genealogy of Sexuality and Body Size

Lynne Gerber, Research Fellow, The Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program at UC Berkeley

Lecture, tbd
Thursday, March 4, 2010
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Body size and homosexuality have been potent sites of moral panic in the 20th century United States. Fat people and gay people have been discursively linked in a range of popular and academic representations and targeted for efforts at containing what is widely viewed as their excessive desires. Yet few efforts have been made to place the two issues in historic conversation, tracing common genealogies and making a case for productive comparative work. This paper will be a step in that direction, laying out similarities and differences between moral and medical discourses on fatness and homosexuality historically and examining two contemporary efforts at changing homosexuality and body size: a Christian weight loss program and an ex-gay ministry.

 

Organized by: Beatrice Bain Research Group


April 2010


Ex-Gay, Post-Gay, Still Gay

The Ex-Gay Movement in South Africa and the United States

Panel discussion, 223 Moses Hall
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

The ex-gay movement is a complicated and at times contradictory phenomenon. A bastion of conservative sexual values and politics, it is also the site of gender and sexual innovation (of a particular sort). Its efforts at healing people from homosexuality range from the strictly therapeutic to the intensively spiritual. And the movement both reflects and engages with the national political environments within which it finds itself. This panel will bring a transnational perspective to the ex-gay movement, with speakers who have undertaken intensive field work in ex-gay ministries in South Africa and the United States. It will look at the gender, racial and bodily practices and perspectives the ministries promulgate, their relationship to sexual and religious politics, and their impact on the lives of people attempting to change their sexual orientation.

Speakers

Lynne Gerber is a Research Fellow at the Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include evangelical Christianity and contemporary American culture, Jewish-evangelical relations, and religion and sexuality. She is currently working on a manuscript titled Ruling the Unruly Body: Losing Weight, Becoming Straight and Being Christian in Evangelical America, a study of evangelical weight loss ministries and ex-gay ministries. Lynne holds a Ph.D. in Ethics and Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. She has also worked as a consultant for numerous philanthropic foundations.

Melissa Hackman is a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently writing her dissertation “Born-Again Masculinity: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Identities in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” which is based on 15 months of intensive fieldwork at an ex-gay and sexual addiction ministry in Cape Town. She has an M.A. in Anthropology from UCSC and a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, where she focused on religions of the African Diaspora and gender/sexuality. Melissa received her BA in Women's Studies from Temple University and is originally from Philadelphia.

Organized by: The Religion, Politics and Globalization Program

Co-sponsored by: Beatrice Bain Research Group, The Center for Comparative Study of Right Wing Movements, The Center for Race and Gender, and the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures


CRG Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Cathy Cohen

Lecture, Bancroft Hotel
Thursday, April 29, 2010
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Save The Date!  More info coming soon.



Center for Race and Gender