The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

June 7
Larisa Reznik, PhD Candidate, Divinity School
Is transcendence bad for 'women'?

May 31
Ann Orloff, Departments of Sociology and Gender Studies, Director of the Program in Gender Studies at Northwestern University
Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies, Feminist Politics and Mothers' Employment in the US and Europe

• co-sponsored with the Comparative Human Development Workshop

May 17
Shadi Bartsch, Department of Classics, University of Chicago

May 10
Morris Kaplan, Department of Political Science, SUNY Purchase
A Queer Orientalism: Sex, Power and Cultural Difference in Backhouse's "Memoirs"

• co-sponsored with CSGS

May 3
Michaele Ferguson, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Taming the Shrew? Choice Feminism and the Fear of Politics

• co-sponsored with the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture and the Political Theory Workshop

April 28
Kathleen Wilson, Departments of History and Cultural Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Rethinking the Colonial State: Family, Gender, and Governmentality in Eighteenth-Century British Frontiers

• co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center for British Studies

April 5
Helen Thompson, Department of English, Northwestern University
Secondary Qualities and Masculine Form in Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison

April 26
Melissa Hardesty, PhD Student, School of Social Service Administration
Nuclear Fusion: Family-making in an Agency-based Adoption Program

January 11
Elisabeth Clemens, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
The Corporate Reconstruction of Civic Life: Realigning Gender, Class and Expertise

February 8
Caroline Schuster, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Micro-management of Debt: Gender, Credibility, and the Regulatory Work of Microloans in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

February 22
Sara Goodkind, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh
You can be anything you want, but you have to believe it: Commercialized feminism in gender-specific programs for girls

March 15
Luis-Manuel Garcia & Gregory Mitchell, PhD Candidates in Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago and Performance Studies, Northwestern
Sex On Several Levels: An Affective Mapping of Queer Heterotopias in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin

• co-sponsored with Ethnoise!

October 5
Anthony Todd, PhD Candidate, History
Finding a Place in the Sky: Female Aviators, Equality and the Performance of Gender, 1941-1945

October 19
Claire McKinney, Phd Candidate, Political Science
Incommensurable Politics? The Anti-selective Abortion Debate, Disability Criticism, and Pro-Choice Feminism

Friday, October 29
Jacqueline Winspear, Novelist and Journalist
Pardonable Lies, Chapter 25

• co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center for British Studies

Tuesday November 2
Catherine Bronson, PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Imagining Eve in Early Islamic Exegesis

Tuesday, November 9
Mark Canavera, Associate, Child Frontiers, and Activist, LGBTQI issues in Africa
Les Forces Nouvelles: Gay Identity and Armed Conflict in Côte d'Ivoire.

• co-sponsored with the African Studies Workshop

Tuesday, November 16
Joseph Fischel, PhD Candidate, Political Science
'Especially Heinous': Politics, Predation, and Sex Panics

June 1
Erin Moore, Human Development, University of Chicago
Ugandan Girls into Global Feminists? Cultural Brokers and Feminist Empowerment

• co-sponsored with African Studies

May 18
Alicia VandeVusse, Gender Studies and Sociology, University of Chicago
Assisted Reproduction in the United States and Germany: Regulating the Family and Negotiating Conceptions

May 4
Katie Turk, History, University of Chicago
'We Must Stop Hiding in Closets and in the Shelter of Anonymity': The Forgotten History of Gay Employment Activism and the Limits of Sex Discrimination Law

April 30
Ruth Solie, Sophia Smith Professor of Music, Smith College
Sponsored by the Music Department and the Nicholson Center for British Studies
Music as a Victorian Model of Heaven: What Can We Learn from Writing of Amateurs?

April 20
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Byron and Oriental Love

April 6
Carly Schuster, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Ties that bind (and sometimes don't): microcredit, kinship, and "committees for women entrepreneurs" in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

March 16
Jay Sosa, Gender Studies Fellow and Anthropology, University of Chicago
Gilberto Freyre and the Myth of Brazilian Sexual Freedom

March 9
Alison Lefkovitz, Gender Studies Fellow and History, University of Chicago
The Ends of Coverture: Deconstructing Exclusive Sexual Access and the Financial Support of Wives, 1971-1984

February 23
Sian Beilock and Susan Levine, Professors of Psychology, University of Chicago
Learning Math and Spatial Skills: How Performance Stereotypes and Anxiety Impact Early Elementary School Student Achievement

February 15
Luis Manuel-Garcia, Music, University of Chicago
Smooth Experience/Rough Experience: Coming Undone and the 'Night Out' in Nightclub Scenes in Paris, Chicago, and Berlin

• co-sponsored the Theater and Performance Studies Workshop

January 26
David Caron, Professor of French & Women's Studies, University of Michigan
"I Have Something to Tell You": The Relational Dynamics of HIV/AIDS Disclosure

January 12
Joe Fischel, LGSP Hormel Fellow and Political Science, University of Chicago
Transcendent Homosexuals and Dangerous Sex Offenders: Sexual Harm and Freedom in the Judicial Imaginary

November 17
Joan Blakey, CSGS Fellow and graduate student in Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
From Surviving to Thriving: African American Mothers Navigating Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Protection

November 3
Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
Discussing the Undiscussable: Queer Biocitizenship and the Gender and Sexual Politics of Anal Cancer

October 20
Elizabeth Hutcheon, CGS Fellow and graduate student in English, University of Chicago
Haunted by Medea: Negotiations of Gender, Rhetoric, and Maternity in Shakespeare

October 9
David Halperin, W.H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, University of Michigan
How To Be Gay: Male Homosexuality as a Cultural Practice

October 6
Dorith Geva, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Socicial Sciences, Harper Fellow, University of Chicago
French Conscription, Familial Authority, and European State Modernity

June 2
Alison Lefkovitz, Department of History, LGSP Hormel Fellow, University of Chicago
The Problem of Homosexual Households from Fault Divorce to Gay Marriage, 1945-1982

May 19
Helen Li, Department of Sociology, CGS Resident Fellow, University of Chicago
The Politics of Nationalizing Gender in Taiwan Before Democracy, 1949-1968

May 12
Kara Walker, Visual Artist and Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate MFA Program
In Discussion with Hamza Walker, Education Director and Associate Curator, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

• co-Sponsored by the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop

May 7
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Associate Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame
New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

• co-Sponsored by the American Religious History Workshop

April 21
Raluca Maria Popa, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Translating Equality Between Women and Men Across Cold War Divides: Women Activists from Hungary and Romania and the Creation of International Women's Year

April 7
Rachel Devlin, Department of History, Tulane University
Girls on the Front Line: Gender and the Battle to Desegregate Public Schools, 1940-1954

March 10
Sarah Imhoff, CGS Fellow and Divinity School Ph.D Candidate, University of Chicago
Jews on Trial: Gender, Sexuality, and Crime in American Images of the Jew, 1910-1924

February 24
Robin Valenza, Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Chicago
Fiction and the Factual, or, Why Were There no Female Mathematical Geniuses in Eighteenth-Century England?

February 10
Kristen Schilt, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of Chicago
Business as Usual: Incorporating Transgender Men into the Workplace

February 2
Elizabeth Hutcheon, English Department, University of Chicago
From Shrew to Subject: The Humanist Pedagogy of Petruchio's 'Taming-School' in The Taming of the Shrew

January 27
Katherine Turk, History Department, Co-Coordinator of the History of Women at the University of Chicago Project, University of Chicago
'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Should Rock the U of C': The Faculty Wife in the Feminist Era

January 13
Jill Weinberg, Master of Arts Program in Social Science, University of Chicago
Empty Legal Protections: The Implications for Excluding Gender Identity from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act

December 2
Marissa Guerrero, Political Science, University of Chicago
All in the State: Family Politics and the Political Family

November 18
Lisa Ruddick, Professor, English, University of Chicago
When Pedophilia Calls Itself Queer

October 21
Linda Zerilli, Professor, Gender Studies and Political Science, University of Chicago
Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment

October 7
Adam T. Jernigan, English Department, University of Chicago
Intimate Economies: Sex, Care, and Kin Work

May 20
Melissa J.K. Howe, Center for Gender Stuides Fellow, Sociology Department, University of Chicago
Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Norms in a Muslim American Community

May 6
Alison Lefkovitz, History Department, University of Chicago
Housewives for ERA: the Illinois Equal Rights Amendment and the Problem of Dependency, 1972-1978

April 24
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor in the Department of Labor and Employment Relations at Rutgers University
Transnational Labor Feminism and U.S. Social Policy, 1914-1975

April 17
Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University
Southern Dominance in Borrowed Language: The Regional Origins of American Neo-Liberalism

April 8
Pablo Ben, Hormel Fellow of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project and Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Chicago
Marica Identity in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930

March 11
Malgorzata Fidelis, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois - Chicago
New Women and Old Communities: Gender and Coal Mining in Postwar Poland

February 26
Elizabeth Perez, History of Religions and Center for Gender
Studies Fellow, University of Chicago
Women's Work, Ritual Labor: Cooking and Conversion in Ilé Laroye

February 12
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
On Octopussies: Hugo and the Monstrosity of Feminine Sexuality

January 30
Deborah R. Vargas, Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine
Where is the 'Queer' in Latino Popular Music Studies?

January 15
Mary Anne Case, Professor of Law, University of Chicago
On Feminist Fundamentalism

October 2
Joseph Fischel, Political Science, University of Chicago
I Do? Towards an (Alternative) Alternative Sexual Politics

October 11
Christine Stansell, Professor, History, University of Chicago
Fragile Consolidation: Liberals, Feminism and Institutional Change, 1970-75

October 16
Muraleedharan Tharayil, Head of the English Department at St Aloysius College (Thrissur, Kerala, India)
Corporeal Inscriptions: Body in Colonial Modernity

October 30
John Osburg, CGS Fellow, Anthropology, University of Chicago
'Entertaining is My Job': Masculinity, Sexuality, and Leisure Among Chengdu's New Rich Entrepreneurs

November 13
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Hormel Fellow, History, University of Chicago
Black Politics and the Campaign for Chicago's Gay Rights Ordinance, 1973-1988

November 27
Qiyamah A. Rahman, Meadville Lombard Theological School
New Directions in Gender Studies and Religious Studies: Utilizing African Feminist Pedagogy to Develop Curriculum in South Africa's Historically Black Universities

April 3
Sarah Luna, Anthropology, University of Chicago
The Regulation of Prostitution and the Making of Mexican Nationalism on the US/Mexico Border

April 17
Robert Wyrod, Sociology, University of Chicago
The Boundaries of Monogamy: Masculinity and Sexuality in Urban Uganda in the Age of AIDS

April 26
Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor English, Harvard University

• co-sponsored with the Renaissance Studies Workshop

May 1
Eric Fassin, Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Love of the Same, Love of the Other: Gay Marriage, Race, & Nation

• co-sponsored with The France Chicago Center and The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

May 8
Pablo Ben, History, University of Chicago
Sexual Comedy and Plebeian Masculinity in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930

May 15
Jingwoan Chang, Center for Gender Studies Resident Fellow, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Instructions on Being a Woman: Disciplining the Body in Onna Chohoki (1692)

May 29
Sam Bergman, Hormel Fellow of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project, Psychology and Human Development, University of Chicago
Who Wears the Pants?: Gender, Family Roles, and Relationship Quality Among Female Coparenting Couples

January 9
Jennifer Cole, Associate Professor, Human Development, University of Chicago
Making Love: Attachment and Reciprocity in Tamatave, Madagascar

January 23
Stuart Michaels, Assistant Director for Curriculum and Development & Undergraduate Program Chair, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago
The History of 10%: Social Science Measures and the Emergence of Gay Identity

February 6
Helen Li, Sociology, University of Chicago
Why states regulate prostitution: A study of Taiwan's two regimes' quest for legitimacy

February 20
Kristin Bloomer, Theology, CGS Resident Fellow, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago
Being Maataa: Roman Catholicism and Marian Possession in Tamil Nadu, South India

March 6
Sarah Potter, History, CGS Dissertation Writing Fellow, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago
Owning Domestic Space: Renting, Renovating, and Redefining the Family Home in Post-World War II Chicago

October 10
James Fortney, Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago
'Con quel tipo li': Gay Characters in Natalia Ginzburg's Narrative Families

October 26
Shaka McGlotten, Associate Professor of Media, Society & The Arts, SUNY Purchase
A Brief and Improper History of Queerspaces and Sexpublics in Austin, Texas

November 7
Kathleen Frederickson, English, University of Chicago
Freud's Australia

November 21
Arnika Fuhrmann, South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
What kind of case is the case of a ghost? Femininity, loss, and recovery in contemporary Thai cinema's horror-ghost genre

December 5
Keisha Lindsay, Political Science, University of Chicago
Intersecting Privilege and Oppression in Black Male Crisis Narrative Texts

• co-sponsored with the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop

April 4
Robert Wyrod, University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology
Being a Man in Bwaise Town: Masculinity in Urban Uganda in the Age of AIDS

April 13
Judy Wu, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University and CSRPC Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Revolutionary Travelers: People's Diplomacy, Third World Internationalism and American Orientalism

• co-sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Studies Workshop and the East Asia: Trans-Regional Histories Workshop.

April 18
Elizabeth Bucar, Center for Gender Studies Fellow, University of Chicago, Religious Ethics
Iranian Shi'ite Back Talk: Tightrope Acts Over Common Moral Ground

May 2
Jeff Rees, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Religious Ethics
God is a Queer Subject

May 16
Erica Townsend-Bell, Ph.D. Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis, Dept. of Political Science
Possibilities of Multiracial Mobilization

May 30
J. Ckristafer Baker, University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
If you have a dick, you should act like a man! The Patriarchal Phallus and the Fallacy of Gender: Some Notes for Anyone Who is Not Straight, White, or Male

January 10
Rochona Majumdar, Asst. Professor, University of Chicago, South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Family Values in Modern India: The Hindu Code Debates of 1955-1956

January 24
Timothy Stewart-Winter, University of Chicago, Dept. of History
Putting Gay Gentrification in its Place: Reflections on the Origins of San Francisco's Castro District
GSSW co-sponsoring with the Urban Studies Workshop

February 7
Rachel Rinaldo, University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology
Transforming Feminism: The Politics of Islam and Women's Rights in Indonesia

February 23
Rosamond King, Assistant Professor, Long Island University, Dept. of English, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture
Representing Self & Other: Transgender/Travesti in Caribbean Texts

• GSSW co-sponsoring with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and the Center for Latin American Studies

March 7
Annette Huizenga, Center for Gender Studies Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Biblical Studies
A Good Woman Who Can Find? Reading the Pastorals in Context

October 4
Pamela Cook, Gender Studies Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science
In Search of Herstyle: Womanist Consciousness and African-American Women's Poitical Participation

October 18
Lynette Jackson, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Gender & Women's Studies and African America Studies
Ambiguities of Protection: Gender, Displacement and Someplace Like Home

November 1
Margot Canaday, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Dept. of History
Most Fags are Floaters: The Problem of 'Unattached Persons' During the Early New Deal, 1933-1935

November 15
Darren Ilett, Hormel Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Germanic Studies
The Homoerotic Body and Narrative Form in Heinrich Mann's 'Abdankung' (Abdication)

November 29
Daniel Chen, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology
Gender Violence and the Price of Virginity: Theory and Evidence of Incomplete Marriage Contracts

April 5
Suzy Kim, University of Chicago, Dept. of History, Gender Studies Fellow
The Woman Question in Post-Liberation North Korea

April 19
Hee-Kang Kim, University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science, Gender Studies Fellow
Egalitarian Theory of Justice: From a Feminist Perspective

April 26
Steve Epstein, Assoc Professor in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego
Bodies, Identities, and the Biopolitics of Health Research: The Place of Sexuality in the 'Inclusion-and-Difference Paradigm'

May 3
Josh Pilzer, University of Chicago, Dept. of Music, Ethnomusicology, Gender Studies Fellow
Imagine humanity to be a joke: Pak Duri's songs of survival

May 17
Jennifer Spruill, University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
The Incorporated Citizen: Liberated, Authentic, Imperiled

January 11
Darren Ilett, University of Chicago, Germanic Studies
Knowledge, Secrets, and Homoeroticism in Two Turn-of-the-Century Boarding School Narratives: Rilke's "The Gym Class" and Walser's Jakob von Gunten

January 18
LGSP and CMS Series & Special Meeting of the Gender & Sexuality Workshop with French Filmmakers Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel
Current Independent Cinema and Queer Issues in France

January 25
Lynette Jackson, University of Illinois at Chicago, Associate Professor, Depts. of Gender and Women's Studies and African American Studies
From Two Colonialisms to Two Pandemics: Historical Trajectories of Gender Violence and AIDS in Zimbabwe

February 8
Fanny Dolansky, University of Chicago, Department of Classics
Religion in the Roman Family: Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulations

February 22
Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Art History
Erotic Triangles, Print Culture, and Artistic Identity in the Renaissance: The Case of Vulcan, Venus and Mars

March 8
Carrie Dohe, University of Chicago, Divinity School
The Hermaphroditic Sun-Child as Nietzschean Superman: Cultural Critique and "the Coming Religion" in Alfred Schuler's Esoteric Speculations in Early Twentieth-Century Germany

October 5
Pablo Ben, Department of History
Queer Identities at the Turn of the 19th Century in Buenos Aires

October 19
Sarah Rivett, Department of English
The Aesthetics of Religious Experience: Empiricism, Epistemology, and the Gendering of Grace in Puritan Testimony

November 2
Tomomi Yamaguchi, University of Chicago, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for East Asian Studies
Japanese Feminism And The Politcs Of History-Making

November 16
Antoinette Burton, History Dept at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cold War Cosmopolitanism and the Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

November 30
Elizabeth Bucar, Divinity/Ethics, Center for Gender Studies Fellow
Virgins, Mothers, and Rebels Construction of Women's Proper Role in the thought of Ayatollah Khomeini

April 6
Miho Matsugu, University of Chicago Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Geisha and Empire-Building: Imperialist Modernism in Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country, 1934-1937

April 20
Stacie Raucci, University of Chicago, Department of Classics
Can You Resist a Look? Propertius on Women and Vision

May 18
Thomas Foster, University of Miami
Manliness and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts

May 14
Carl Nash, University of Chicago, Department of History
Out in the Second City: Gay and Lesbian Politics and Community in Chicago, 1940s to 1980s

June 1
Tara "Red" Tremmel, Department of History, Gender Studies Dissertaion Writing Fellow
Midwestern Cowboys in Baghdad: Race, Nation, and Pleasure in America's 1950s Mecca

January 13
Natasha Tinsley, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature
Tropical Gardens on the Road to Lesbos: Locating the Woman of Color in the Lesbian Imagination of 1920s Paris

January 22
Susan Manning, English and Theater, Northwestern University
Making a (Queer) American Dance: Jos'im Merce Cunningham, and Alvin Ailey

January 27
Bertram J. Cohler, William Rainey Harper Professor, Departments of Human Development and Psychology
Writing Desire: Life-Story and Social Change among Men Seeking Sex with Other Men

February 10
Moon Duchin, Department of Mathematics
Mapping Sex and the Social: The Geometry of Gender

February 27
Judith Halberstam, University of California, San Diego, Department of Literature
Ceremonies of Our Present: Photography and Queer Subcultures

March 4
Douglas Crimp, Art and Art History, Rochester University
Coming Together to Stay Apart: Andy Warhol's Collaboration with Ronald Tavel

October 7
Debra Michaud, Dept. of History, University of Chicago.
Victorian Ladies, Mannish Monsters, and Sexual Transgressions: The Trials of Lillian Duer and the Making of a Modern Lesbian Scandal

October 14
Nadine Hubbs, Departments of Music Theory and Women's Studies, University of Michigan.
Orchestrating National Identity: Queer Modernists' Creation of 'America's Sound.'

October 21
Malayna Williams, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.
A Diachronic Survey of the Socio-Political Status of Ancient Egyptian Priestesses.

November 4
Tone Hellesund, Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Research, University of Bergen, Norway.
Queer spinsters? Norwegian single women 1870-1940.

November 18
Tim Stewart-Winter, Dept. of History, University of Chicago.
Gender,Conscription, and Conscience: The World War II Draft and the Remaking of American Pacifism.

April 8
Kathleen Frederickson, Department of English, University of Chicago
Feeling Yourself (Genres of Affect, Genres of Sexuality 1880-1900)

April 17
Joint meeting with the Latin American History Workshop
Pablo Ben, Department of History, University of Chicago
Child Queer Prostitution, Buenos Aires 1870-1910

May 6
Hee-Kang Kim, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, CGS Fellow
Women's Choice and Women's Responsibility: Understanding Equality and Autonomy

May 20
Barbara Ransby, Department of African-American Studies, UIC
The 'Dual Consciousness' of Black Women Activists in the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century: Ella Baker and The Underground Fight for Gender Democracy in the Black Community

June 2
Laura-Zoe Humphreys, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Democracy and Strawberry-Flavoured Pink Dollars: The Reception of Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Fresa y Chocolate

January 14
Joint meeting with the Medieval Studies Workshop
James Schultz, UCLA
Courtly Love of the Courtly Body

January 28
Keisha Lindsay, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Finding Foucault's Freedon: Sex, Fun, and Fashion in the Jamaican Dancehall

February 1
Kim Reilly, Department of History, University of Chicago, 2002-3 Gender Studies Dissertation Writing Fellow
There can be no Mystery Between Equals: Sexuality and Sexual Difference in the US, 1900 - 1920

February 18
Julie Graham, Department of Geography, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Politics of Empire/Politics of Place

March 11
Mia Yagod, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, 2002-3 Gender Studies Dissertation Writing Fellow

October 22
Bill Mihalopoulas, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago
Ousting the 'Prostitute': Retelling the Story of the Karayuki-san

November 5
Jeffrey Masten, Department of English, Northwestern University
On Q: Towards an Introduction to Queer Philology

November 19
Charis Thompson, Department of History of Science, Harvard University
The Biotech Mode of (Re)Production

January 9
Marta Lois, Department of Political Science
What is the value of multiculturalism for women? Gender equality and some cultural practices in the European context

January 23
Suzanne Pelka, Committee on Human Development
Lesbian Couples Using In-Vitro-Fertilization (IVF) to Co-Mother

February 13
Sonya Michel, Gender and Women's Studies, UIC
The Benefits of Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Democracy and Equity in America's Public/Private Welfare State

February 27
Anna Marie Smith, Dept. of Government, Cornell
Welfare Reform as Culture War: The Population Management Dimension of Contemporary American Welfare Policy

October 3
Welcome, discussion of readings by Cheshire Calhoun ("Separating Lesbian and Feminist Theory"), Angela Davis and Gina Dent ("Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization, and Punishment")

October 17
Jackie Orr, University of Syracuse
"Keep Calm!" For the Cold War: Diary of a Mental Patient

October 31
Dawne Moon, Sociology, UC Berkeley
How Born Gay and Ex-Gay Arguments are Really the Same: Unspoken Power in Moral Debates

November 14
Steven Seidman, SUNY-Albany
From Identity to Queer Politics: Shifts in Patterns of Normative Heterosexuality

November 28
Edith Garneau, Political Science, University of Chicago
Gender and the Politics of Aboriginal Self-Determination in Canada

April 4
"Dream Girls": Video on Takarazuka; selections from Robertson

April 18
Jennifer Robertson, Anthropology, Michigan
Japan's First Cyborg? Miss Nippon, Eugenics, and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body, and Blood

May 16
Tanya Jayani Fernando, Comparative Literature
The Scene of Shock: Race , Gender, and the Modern City

May 30
Joan Haran, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of Warwick
After the Holocaust: Projects of Memory and Hope for the Future in The Gate to Women's Country, The Fifth Sacred Thing and He, She and It

Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan
Japan's First Cyborg? Miss Nippon, Eugenics, and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body, and Blood
Held in conjuction with Gender and Society Workshop.

Valerie Traub
Held in conjuction with the Renaissance Workshop.

Kelly Gillespie, University of Chicago
Gendered Skins: A video presentation of conversations with South African prisoners

T. Vaughan Tremmel, University of Chicago
Gangsters, Gamblers and Other Queers: The Sexual and Political Economy in the Postwar United States, 1945-1975

Greta Rensenbrink, University of Chicago, History, Lesbian and Gay Studies Dissertaion Fellow
Fat Feminism: Beyond the Politics of Appearance

Jim Madigan, University of Chicago, Law School
Questioning the Coercive Effect of Self-identifying Speech

Chad Heap, History, University of Chicago, History
Marking Deviance and Making Heterosexuals: 'Slumming' in Prohibition-Era Chicago and New York

Jennifer Spruill, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Street Rituals: PRIDE and Matrimony in the Post-Apartheid Nation

Didier Eribon, Paris
The Impact of Reading Nietzsche on Gide and Foucault

Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University, History and East Asian Studies
Women, Youths, and Men: Male-Male Eroticism and the Age/Gender System of Tokugawa Japan

Greta Rensenbrink, University of Chicago, History
Lesbian Feminist Body Politics in the 1970s

October 19
Judith Halberstam
Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Gender, Race, and Masculinity in the Drag King Scene
Joint Meeting of Gender and Society & The Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Studies Workshops

November 9
Ritty Lukose, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Between Love and Marriage: Romance in Public
Joint Meeting with the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project