FALL 2005
September 23, October 7 & 21, 2005
November 2, 2005 / 6pm
Safety: Linking Research, Programs & Policy
Dr. Stephen Russell
Modern Languages 451
Free and Open to the public
Family Studies and Human Development Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are a group at risk for significant emotional and behavioral health challenges. Recent attention has focused on the victimization harassment experiences of sexual minority youth at school. Dr. Russell will present research from an ongoing series of studies designed to (a) understand the experiences of sexual minority youth in schools, and (b) identify educational policies that create supportive school climates. He will describe ways this research is shaping education policy in California at the school, district, and state levels.
November 30, 2005 / 6-7
Gay Families, Neoliberalism, and Organ Theft
A brown bag talk by Professor Laura Briggs of
the Dept. of Women's Studies Hosted by LGBT Studies
Modern Languages 311
Since the 1980s, LGBT people have been fighting for more expansive legal definitions of who could adopt children, recently winning nation-wide legal protection in Spain and Canada, with smaller, more local victories in the United States and Mexico. What has actually been more successful, however, is the growing commercialization of adoption, which has globalized adoption "markets" and essentially made adoption available to anyone who has $20,000. In exactly the same period, however, there has been a forceful outcry against international adoption, particularly in Latin America, embodied memorably in rumors that foreigners were adopting children in order to kill them and harvest their organs. This talk argues that these two, apparently opposed political movements--for queer adoption and against the expropriation of children--are connected by the logic of the "neoliberal family."
SPRING 2006
March 24, 2006 / 3pm
"Sex and Tourism: the economic implications of the gay marriage movement"
Nan Alamilla Boyd
Modern Language Conference Room, 451
In this presentation, historian Nan Alamilla Boyd will discuss the economic stakes of the current U.S.-based gay marriage movement, its impact on the fast-growing gay tourist market, and the relationship between gay tourism and the globalization of GLBT identities.
March 27-28, 2006
Lisa Duggan is visiting the UA
She is a professor of American Studies at NYU and is the author of "Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy". And she is currently writing a book on the politics of gay marriage (and specifically the anti-gay-marriage initiatives, such as the one that will likely appear on next fall's ballot here); she will be speaking on that issue in her various talks at UA. You are invited to attend one of her public talks. Details follow below:
Monday, March 27, 2006
12:15-1:15pm / UA Law School Rm 139
Public Lecture sponsored by Pride Law
6pm / 425 E 7th St
Public Lecture at Wingspan
Tuesday, March 28th
12-2pm / Special Collections Conference Room, Main Library / Lunch provided
Lunch discussion with LGBT Executive Committee and OUTReach
April 11, 2006
Sexuality and Homeland (In)Securities Conference
Organized by the LGBT Studies Executive Committee - Free and open to the public.