FALL 2004

 

September 24, October 8 & 21, 2004

Lesbian Looks Film and Video Series

 

September 28, 2004 / 6:30pm

Ending Special Rights for Marriage: Broadening the LGBT Family Law Agenda
Wingspan (300 E. 6th St)

A presentation by Nancy Polikoff, Professor of Law at the American University and Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona. Polikoff will offer an alternative perspective on LGBT marriage rights. According to Polikoff, the emphasis on obtaining access to the privileged status of marriage for same-sex couples has eclipsed a broader agenda that would achieve justice for all family structures. Some Massachusetts employers have already eliminated domestic partner benefi ts, suggesting that achieving same-sex marriage may actually restrict options and increase the distance between the rights married couples can enjoy and those available to every other family form. Polikoff offers an alternative approach: eliminate marriage as a legal status or, at the very least, eliminate the special rights currently reserved for marriage alone.

 

September 30, 2004

OUTReach LGBT Fall Welcoming Event

Great hors d'oeuvres, wine and soft drinks will be served.

5-7 pm
Swede-Johnson Room 205

 

October 29, 2004

SRG Seminar
Hegemonic Masculinity, Comrade Women and Sissyphobia: Male Gender Roles along the Islamist-Secularist Paradigm in Turkey

With Elif Shafak, Assistant Prof. Near Eastern Studies

12-2 pm
Modern Languages Building 451

 

November 19, 2004

SRG Seminar
Human Geography without Scale

With Sallie Marston, JP Jones and Keith Woodward (all in UA Dept of Geography) presenting their jointly authored paper.

 

 

SPRING 2005

 

January 19, 2005

SRG Seminar
Global Feminisms and Local Analyses of Sex/Race/Nation in the Women's Peace Movement in Israel

With Jessica Weinberg, SRG Dissertation Fellow and PhD candidate in the Dept of Anthropology

 

February 25, 2005

SRG Seminar Double Header

With Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, Associate Prof, English, Rutgers University and author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

and

David Kazanjian, Associate Prof, English, Queens College and author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America

12-2 pm
Modern Languages Building 451

 

April 21-24, 2005

Cultural Studies Association Conference

With SRG plenary and stream of panels. More info coming soon

Held at the University Marriot