November 2009
2009-2010 CSSC Lecture Series
D. Rita Alfonso, (LGBT Studies)
Juana Maria Rodriguez, (Gender and Women's Studies)
Michael Lucey, (French)
Thomas Laqueur, (History)
Susan Schweik, (English)
Lecture Series, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Monday, November 30, 2009 to Thursday, April 22, 2010
The Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures presents
SEXUAL CULTURES
AT BERKELEY
A series of lectures by UC Berkeley scholars
RITA ALFONSO
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 4pm JUANA MARIA RODRIGUEZ
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 3pm
MICHAEL LUCEY
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 4pm
(in 3401 Dwinelle)
THOMAS LAQUEUR
Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 4pm
SUSAN SCHWEIK Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 3pm
All lectures take place in 370 Dwinelle Hall, except as noted.
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
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
Chapel and HIV Testing, Pacific School of Religion, Chapel and PSR Building Holbrook 133 for testing
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
December 1, 2009 at 10:00am to 2:00pm World AIDS Day was established by the World Health Organization on December 1, 1988, to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infections. CLGS will mark World AIDS Day 2009 by contributing to PSR's chapel service that day (11:10 am) and by co-sponsoring with New Spirit Community Church an opportunity for free HIV testing on the PSR campus (Holbrook 133, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm). HIV infection is certainly not restricted to LGBT-identified people and AIDS is not a "gay disease." At the same time, many LGBT people have pioneered awareness and prevention strategies and have often been on the front lines of caring for those infected. The stigma and shame associated with HIV infection is also a deeply spiritual, theological, and religious issue, which CLGS is committed to addressing for the health and dignity of all.
New Spirit Community Church, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
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
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, December 10, 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
January 2010
Two Authors Discuss Global and Domestic Battles over Women's Reproductive Rights
February 2010
CRG Afternoon Forum Series, 691 Barrows Hall
Thursday, February 25, 2010
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Passion and (Margaret) Sweat: Reconsidering Ethel’s Love-Life (1858)
Prof. Dorri Beam, English
Center for Race and Gender
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
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 18, 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
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
Re-Imagining Race, Kinship, & Care
Conference, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Thursday, April 29, 2010 to Friday, April 30, 2010
More information soon!
Center for Race and Gender
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