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CSSC Working Group:Violence, Pleasure, and Writing CSSC Working Group:Violence, Pleasure, and Writing November 2009GWS Fall Colloquia - Patty BernePatty Berne, Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid
Lecture, 20 Barrows Hall 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
Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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.
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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 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 Feminisms in Latin America and the Challenges of Diversity in the XXI CenturyVirginia Vargas
Lecture, 370 Dwinelle Hall 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 Sexual Cultures at Berkeley: D. Rita AlfonsoCSSC Lecture Series Professor D. Rita Alfonso, (Department of Gender and Women's Studies)
Lecture, 370 Dwinelle Hall 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 2009The Persisting Plantation: Laborers in the Field & Literature
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall The Costs of Certified Food: Just Pineapple Production in Costa Rica Little Gold Piece: The Production of Fetish Value in Corregidora Detailed info: FRICTION (Dissertation Workshop)Writing Sexuality
Workshop, 254 Barrows Hall Doctoral students whose work focuses on sexuality Interdisciplinary Dissertation Workshop
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: (as attachments) to cssc@berkeley.edu Applications due Monday, October 26, 2009 Center for the Study of Sexual Culture February 2010BBRG PRESENTS: BBRG Annual Keynote Lecture - Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakSituating 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 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.
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 2010BBRG 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 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 2010Ex-Gay, Post-Gay, Still GayThe Ex-Gay Movement in South Africa and the United States
Panel discussion, 223 Moses Hall 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
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