News & Events
Darger's Resources: A Discussion with Elizabeth Wilson, Lynne Huffer and author Michael Moon
Friday, April 6th at 4 p.m.
Location: Few Multipurpose Room
Join us for a conversation with Elizabeth Wilson, Lynne Huffer and the author of Darger's Resources, Michael Moon.
"Indigenous Health Promotion and Sexual Behavior Change among Gay Men in San Francisco, 1981-1987"
Lecture by Colin Talley, Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 12:00 p.m.
Location: Claudia Nance Rollins Building, Room 3001
For San Francisco, data indicate that new infections among gay and other men who have sex with men rose from 1978 to 1982 and began dropping sometime in 1983 and reached their lowest number around 1987. Since that time the number of new infections in SF has remained relatively stable. The objective of this study is to understand the role of health promotion, community, and media in changing sexual behavior in San Francisco during this period. The specific aims are to understand how health promotion, community, and media contributed to reducing new HIV infections in SF among gay and other MSM from 1982 to 1987 and to determine whether this amounted to a de facto social ecological approach to sexual health promotion. Among these elements, describing the role of indigenous health promotion and community organizations in promoting safer sex is particularly important.
"Onstage/Backstage: Human and Nonhuman Animals on the Early Modern Spanish Stage"
Lecture by Adrianne Martin for the Emilia Navarro Distinguished Lecture Series.
Monday, April 2, 2012 at 4:30PM
Location: Woodruff Library, Jones Room
Reception follows
Presented by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Hightower Family Fund, and the John Gordon Stipe Memorial Lectureship Fund.
"Feudal Modern: Libertinage and the Sexual Marginality of 'Backward' People in Contemporary India"
Lecture by Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology, University of Calirfornia Berkeley
February 27th, 4 p.m.
Location: Anthropology 303
Lawrence Cohen's primary field is the critical study of medicine, health, and the body. His book NO AGING IN INDIA (University of Califronia Press, 2000) is about Alzheimer's disease, the body and the voice in time, and the cultural politics of senility. His two current projects are INDIA TONITE, which examines homoerotic identification and representation in the context of political and market logics in urban north India, and THE OTHER KIDNEY about the nature of immunosuppression and its accompanying global traffic in organs for transplant.
SIS Annual Essay Competition for Student Scholarship in LGBT/Queer Studies
Submission Deadline: 5 p.m. Monday, January 30th, 2012
Awards: 7 p.m., March 3rd at Tull Hall
Students are invited to submit work completed this year for cash award! The winners will be announced at the Pride Awards, on March 3rd, 2012. Join us at Tull Hall in Emory University's School of Law at 7 p.m.
Click the link for full information on submission guidlines—good luck!
Queering /Embodying : Materiality Beyond Identity
January 26th & 27th
Third Annual Studies in Sexualities Graduate Student Conference
"One, Two, How Many Interdisciplines?"
November 29th, 11:45 - 1 p.m.
A part of ILA Colloquium Series, a discussion with Dr. Michael Moon, pii, Anson Koch-Rein, Alan Gould, Mairead Sullivan, and Dustin Grey.
"Sex and the Post-Industrial City: Leathermen, San Francisco, and Geographies of Gay Sex." a lecture by Gayle Rubin
November 16th, 4 p.m.
Location: White Hall 207
Gayle Rubin is author of the forthcoming book, Deviations, which includes her foundational feminist essay, "The Traffic in Women," her equally foundational queer essay, "Thinking Sex," and subsequent work on lesbian history, the sex wars, sadomasochism, leather communities, pornography and prostitution.
SIS Conference Reading Group
November 8th, 5 p.m.
Ahead of the third annual SIS conference, "Queering/Embodying: Materiality Beyond Identity," the conference organizers would like to hold an informal reading group. The next one will take place in January before the conference. The purpose of the reading groups will be to begin a dialogue on the work of our keynote speaker, Dr. Gayle Salamon.
For this first meeting, we will be reading excerpts from Salamon's book, Assuming a Body, which engages with trans studies, queer theory, embodiment theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and a number of other fields of interest.
Readings: Intro and Chapter 3 (PDFs)
We will be meeting on Tuesday, November 8th at 5pm in the WGS seminar room (Candler 125). There will be snacks and drinks!
"Sedgwick Inexhaustible" a seminar with Christopher Nealon
October 19th, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Christopher Nealon, author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century, as well as two books of poems, The Joyous Age, and Plummet; Prof. Nealon will lead a roundtable with interested graduate students on his forthcoming essay, "Sedgwick Inexhaustible." Those interested in participating must contact Prof. Jonathan Goldberg (goldb_j@yahoo.com) by Oct. 1 to obtain a copy of the essay; only a few spaces remain open for this seminar.