Past Events

2007

LGBT STUDIES PROGRAM RECEPTION
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Goldstein Alumni & Faculty Center
6:15 p.m.
This reception follows Roger Hallas¹s lecture
What is Queer Visual Culture?
in Watson Theater at 5:00 p.m.
[come to either, come to both]
ALL ARE WELCOME!

What is Queer Visual Culture?

Lecture by Roger Hallas, Assistant Professor of English, Syracuse University
Tuesday, September 18, 5:00pm
Watson Theater, Watson Hall

Introducing the series, Professor Hallas discusses what exactly constitutes
queer visual culture and why it has been so critical to LGBT identities and
communities.

Madame Satã

Film Screening
Tuesday, October 9, 7:00 pm
Grant Auditorium, College of Law

Karim Aïnouz¹s award-winning film about the explosive life of 1930s
Brazilian legend, João Francisco dos Santos, aka Madame Satã: drag queen,
hustler, gangster, prince of thieves and adoptive father.

FTM: Renditions of a Vector

Lecture by Chris Straayer, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York
University
Thursday, October25, 5:00pm
500 Hall of Languages
Prof. Straayer explores Female-to-Male transsexual discourses in
contemporary film and video.

Queer Memory and the Archive of AIDS

Film Screening
Tuesday, November 13, 7:00pm
Grant Auditorium, College of Law
Smalltown Boys (Matt Wolf, 2003)
Sea in Blood (Richard Fung, 2000)
Shatzi is Dying (Jean Carlomusto, 2000)
A program of short videos that interrogate the archive of AIDS cultural activism of the 1980s and 90s, posing important questions about queer memory.

All events are free and open to the public

The series is supported by funds from the College of Arts and Sciences, the departments of English, Transmedia, African American Studies, and Communication & Rhetorical Studies, and the Visual Arts and Cultures Cluster of the CNY Humanities Corridor (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation).

REGIONAL LGBT/QUEER STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE
November 3, 2007

This conference seeks to explore all aspects of LGBT/Queer Studies as represented in the cutting-edge work of emerging scholars in the Central Upstate region of New York. We invite graduate students working in all disciplines to present their work. The conference will include a keynote address by Assistant Professor Dana Luciano, from Georgetown University, called "Nostalgia for an Age Yet To Come", and faculty from colleges and universities in the region will serve as respondents for the panels.

The conference is free and open to the public. Everyone--students, faculty, staff, community members--is encouraged to attend. Click Here to see the call for papers in printer friendly format (Pdf).

The (First) Year of Queer: Student Conference
April 24, 2007 5 pm-6:30 pm
204 Tolley Center for Public and Collaborative Humanities

This is an oppportunity for students in the LGBT Studies courses to present their work to a larger audience. All are welcomed -- and food will be provided.

Queer Scholarship Panel
Saturday, April 21, 2007, from 2-3 in 304 Tolley
Professors from the LGBT Studies courses will present aspects of queer scholarship from their various disciplinary angles:

Tom Keck, Political Science, will discuss PSC 300 Sexuality and the Law
Robin Riley, Women's Studies, will talk about our core course QSX 111 Queer Histories, Communities, and Politics
Jonathan Massey, Architecture, will present on ARC 500 Sexuality and Space

"Transgender Recognition and the Problem of Violence" by Richard M. Juang
Description: Presentation and discussion
Date: April 11, 2007
Time: 5 pm
Location: Kittredge Auditorium
Richard M. Juang is a co-editor of and contributor to Transgender Rights (Univ of MN Press, 2006), the first major collection of essays on the contemporary transgender civil rights and social justice movement. His work also appears in Routledge's Transgender Studies Reader. Richard co-chairs the advisory board of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in Washington, DC and was an editor of NCTE's 'Responding to Hate Crimes: A Community Resource Manual.' Richard has taught at Oberlin College and Susquehanna University and currently lives in Boston, where he is assisting with transgender non-discrimination and hate crimes legislative efforts, as part of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.

There is also an informal reception for Richard at the LGBT Resource Center at 3 pm that everyone is invited to.

Co-sponsors: LGBT Studies Program and LGBT Resource Center

On Wed (3/28/07) we have a screening/discussion of 'The Aggressives' (Daniel Peddle, 2005), a striking and illuminating documentary that explores the subculture of New York lesbians living as 'aggressives.' These women range from pretty tomboys to the blatantly butch, boldly creating their own identities outside of society's established sexual categories. Stripped of pretense, they lead us to fashion shoots and prison cells to reveal their work lives, love lives, and social lives, including the underground ball scene where lesbians compete for lead "AG" status.
Panel Presenters: Anne Fitzsimmons, Elisa Norris, and David Eye

Date: March 28, 2007
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: 304 Tolley
Co-sponsors: The LGBT Studies Program and the Writing Program

Querying Globalization: Sexual Subjectivities, Development, and the Governance of Intimacy
Amy Lind, Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of Cincinnati

April 2, 2007
4:00 p.m.
100 Eggers Hall

This paper addresses how sexual subjectivities are produced, understood, and imagined in the global development industry. I argue that this industry serves as an important site for the institutionalization of neoliberal policies and the broader process of global restructuring. By examining how sexual subjectivities are represented in narratives and institutional practices of development, I demonstrate the paradoxes of defining queer sexualities in an era of transnational production and neoliberal governance. I draw out the implications of this research for scholarly and activist strategies that aim to resist normativities produced and/or accentuated by restructuring processes.

Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Faculty Affiliate of the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. She is working on a book length manuscript on the topic of querying development and is co-editing (with Suzanne Bergeron) an anthology on the same topic, Querying Development: Sexual Rights and Resistance to Global Power.

Reception for all undergraduates interested in LGBT Studies
Friday, February 9, from 4-5 in 304 Tolley
Enjoy some good food, talk with others, and bring an artifact for the Queer Archives!

Pre-Totally Fabulous Drag Show party
Thursday, February 15, from 6:45-8:00 in 304 Tolley
Have some good food and get ready for the big show!

Film Screening—Come to see the film Proteus (2003)
Directed by John Greyson, this film portrays an interracial gay love story set in early 18th century South Africa about two men -- a black prisoner living in a Cape Town penal colony and a Dutch sailor -- who weather injustices as a result of their affair.
Wednesday, February 21 at 7 pm in Heroy Auditorium

Film Screening—Come to see the film Unveiled (2005)
Fariba, persecuted in Iran because of her love for another woman, assumes the identity of a man to gain temporary asylum in Germany. She takes an illegal factory job where fellow worker Anne takes an interest in the strange foreigner. As the two become close, Anne begins to suspect Fariba’s true identity – and both women face danger when authorities tell Fariba she must return to Iran.
Wednesday, March 21 at 7 pm in Heroy Auditorium

2006

You are invited to participate in a visit to SU from Professor Simon LeVay who is well-known for his study of brain anatomy and biology in relation to sexual orientation. The talk is organized by the Syracuse Neuroscience Organization and co-sponsored by the LGBT Studies Program and Minor.

Thursday 9/28 from 3:30 - 4:30 -- an informal discussion for undergraduate students with Professor LeVay about sexuality and the brain -- and the politics of this kind of research -- to be moderated by Bryce Renninger at the Watson North Lounge. To prepare please check out the online essay "Biology of Sexual Orientation" at <http://members.aol.com/slevay/page22.html>

Thursday 9/28 from 5:00-6:30 -- an informal discussion for graduate students with Professor LeVay about research on sexuality and the brain -- and the politics of this kind of research -- to be moderated by Mark Braiman, Andrew London, and Margaret Himley in the Kilian Room in 500 HL. To prepare please read "Conclusions" from Queer Science (Click Here).

Friday 9/29 from 3:30-5:00 -- the lecture by Professor LeVay, entitled "The Neuroscience of Sexual Orientation" in Stolkin Auditorium in the Physics Building, with a reception to follow in Heroy Lobby

If you have questions or comments, please contact Margaret Himley mrhimley@syr.edu or Andrew London aslondon@maxwell.syr.edu