2008-2009 Events

 

All events except the Postwar Queer Underground Cinema conference take place in HGS (Hall of Graduate Studies), room 211, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT.  Free and open to the public.

 

Thursday, September 11, HGS 211

Reception 4-5 pm, Roundtable and discussion 5-7 pm

Social Science and the Construction of Modern Sexuality

with Roderick Ferguson, Sabine Frühstück, Dan Healey, Elizabeth Lunbeck, Chris Waters, and Joanne Meyerowitz

For more information on this symposium, click here.

 

Thursday, October 23, 5 pm, HGS 211

Claire Potter, Wesleyan University
Was There a Sexual Conterrevolution? "Sex Wars" and the Politics of Pornography in the Age of Reagan

 

Monday, November 10, 5 pm, HGS 211

Marc Epprecht, Queens University
Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS

 

Thursday, January 29, 5 pm, HGS 211

Judith Coffin , University of Texas, Austin
Simone de Beauvoir, Alfred Kinsey, and Mid-Century Sex

 

Thursday & Friday, February 19-20, Whitney Humanities Center

Postwar Queer Underground Cinema, 1950-68 (pre-registration required)

For more information on this conference, click here.

 

Thursday, February 26, 5 pm, HGS 211

Robert Self, Brown University

There Were No Steelworkers: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality at the 1972 Democratic National Convention