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2008-2009 EVENTS

  • Jan 22 Chris Berry lecture, Queer Asian Film Studies: Gendered Consumption of East Asian Gay Cinema. East Duke Parlors, 5:30 pm.

NEWS

Spring semester:

February 5th: Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Women’s Studies and Literature, will speak about queer theory.  12:00 – 1:10 pm.

February 13th 10am-5pm:  India, Sexuality, and the Archive Colloquium, East Duke Parlors, Duke University

Featuring Anjali Arondekar (Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz), Shohini Ghosh (Zakir Hussain Professor, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi), Charu Gupta (Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University), and Patricia Uberoi (Professor. Honorary Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi., and Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina).

Respondents Roundtable: Neel Ahuja (Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Dept of English, UNC-Chapel Hill), Sumathi Ramaswamy (Professor, History, Duke) , Anupama Rao (Assistant Professor, South Asian History, Barnard) and Robyn Wiegman (Professor Women’s Studies and Literature, Duke).

Colloquium led by Ara Wilson (Director, the program in the study of sexualities, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies); Ranjana Khanna (Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies, Professor, English, Literature Program, Women’s Studies); and Svati P Shah (2008-09 PostDoc in Women’s Studies)

Co-sponsored by the program in the study of sexualities, Women’s Studies, and the North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies.

March 5th: Janie Long (Director, LGBT Center) will about her research and work in clinical psychology. 12:00-1:30 pm.

October 30: Everett Zhang lecture. “Flows between the Clinic and the Media: Desiring Production in Beijing.”

Zhang is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research examines how medical systems and media construct masculinity and sexuality in China and Taiwan. East Duke Parlors, 5:00 pm, reception follows.

Profiles in Sexuality Research, cosponsored with the Center for LGBT Life.

Tuesday November 4 12:00-1:30, Sharon Holland, Professor of English, African & African American Studies, and Women’s Studies. LGBT Center (West Campus). Lunch is provided, RSVP recommended: christopher.purcell@duke.edu

Transnational Sexualities (A year-long series coorganized by Women’s Studies
and the Program in the Study of Sexualities)  FALL 2008 PROGRAM

Tuesday September 9, 5:00
Elisabeth Engebretsen lecture, “A queer sense of belonging: Intimate desires, conjugal ideals, and national identity among lalas (’lesbians’) in urban China.”

Engebretsen, PostDoc fellow in Women’s Studies for 2008-09, is completing her PhD in anthropology at LSE. East Duke Parlors, 4:15 pm, reception follows.

Thursday September 11, 5:00
Sahar Amer lecture, “Medieval Arab Lesbians and Lesbian-Like Women.”

Amer is Professor in Asian and International Studies at the Univesity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This talk draws from her new book, Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). East Duke Parlors, 5:00 pm, reception follows.

Thursday October 2, 5:00
Ann Stoler lecture, “Imperial Dispositions of Dis-Regard.”

Stoler is the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School of Social Research. She is the author most recently of Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (forthcoming). Co-sponsored by Cultural Anthropology. East Duke Parlors, 5:00 pm, reception follows.

Wednesday October 22, 12:00
Wednesdays @ The Center, “Transnational Sexualities: New Directions in the Study of Sexuality.”

Panel discussion with Svati Shah (Women’s Studies Postdoc fellow), Elisabeth Engebretsen (Women’s Studies Postdoc fellow), and Ara Wilson (Director, Program in the Study of Sexualities). Moderated by Ranjana Khanna, Director of Women’s Studies. Lunch served beginning 11:45 am, Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, Noon.

Thursday October 30
Everett Zhang lecture. “Flows between the Clinic and the Media: Desiring Production in Beijing.”

Zhang is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research examines how medical systems and media construct masculinity and sexuality in China and Taiwan. East Duke Parlors, 5:00 pm, reception follows.

SXL Cosponsored Films:

T Oct 28 (7 PM) Film: Jihad for Love.  About same-sex love in 12 Muslim countries. Sponsored with the Center for Islamic Studies.

W Oct 29 White (8pm) | Film:  Eternal Summer
(Leste Chen, 2006, 95 min, Taiwan, in Mandarin with English subtitles) About a love triangle among young Taiwanese. Sponsored with Cine-East film series.

Friday October 3 12:00-1:30, Seth Sanders, Professor of Economics and Public Policy Studies. Professor Sanders will discuss his research on the economics of lesbian and gay families and current LGBT research in the field of economics. LGBT Center (West Campus). Lunch is provided, RSVP recommended: christopher.purcell@duke.edu

September 16, Bloomsbury Panel on Gender and Sexuality.
Nelson Music Room, 5:30 pm. Reception following in the East Duke Parlors.

Panel discussion featuring Jeffrey Escoffier, author of John Maynard Keynes (Chelsea: 1994);
Victoria Rosner, Associate Professor, Department of English at Texas A&M University;
Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies at Duke;
Moderated by Ara Wilson, Director of the Program in the Study of Sexualities.

This event is part of a year-long project Vision and Design: A Year of Bloomsbury in conjunction with the Nasher exhibition, A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections (December 18, 2008 – April 5, 2009).

Friday August 29, 10:30 AM: conversation with journalist/author Linda Villarosa about her new novel, Passing for Black, and her career as out lesbian black journalist with Essence magazine and The New York Times. Parlors, East Duke Building (1st floor). Refreshments served.
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2007-2008

April 3, 2008: Queer Careers: Discussion with the Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), Jaime Grant, about lgbt research and non-profit careers. Noon, LGBT Center.

December 4th, 2007: Judith Halberstam and Beth Povinelli, a conversation. Cosponsored with The Franklin Center for the Humanities and English.

November 15, 2007: Jaspir Puar seminar discussing her book.

2006-2007

March 2007: Ethnoporn conference. Cosponsored with History.

February 7, 2007: Asia panel, Franklin Humanities Institute, with Anne Allison, Tomiko Yoda, Sean Metzger.