Visual AIDS commissioned seven artists— Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye, Reina Gosset, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona McClodden and Brontez Purnell – to create short videos emphasizing Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic. Time to be announced.
Critique has been central to feminist and queer engagements with politics and culture. Nonetheless, in the wake of post-critical turn, proposed by Felski, Sedgwick, and others, the very notion of critique has become associated with "a hermeneutics of suspicion,” which has "run out of steam.” This paper questions, however, whether hermeneutics of suspicion or a […]
The narrative of the queer history of the 20th century usually puts the gay men in the position of victims of political oppression who had to fight back for their civil rights. However, during authoritarian regimes during both WWII and the following Eastern part of the Cold War, there were gay men (and women) who […]
UB Gender Institute Spring Lecture 2018 Dr. Musser is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research is at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality studies. Her monograph, Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) uses masochism as a lens to theorize different […]
Rescheduled from April 5. Free and open to the public. "On Being a Public Artist with AIDS in 1980s America :Scott Burton, Sculpture, and Conformational Masking" One of the most prominent sculptors of the 1980s, Scott Burton’s (1939-1989) functional, participatory works were welcomed into public spaces and museum collections during the decade. These sculptures were […]
A master class/seminar will be held with David Getsy. There is a set of readings to be read in advance of the workshop (all short). Please use the following links to access the readings or download a PDF of the David Getsy Seminar Readings (warning: this is a 10.5 MB file): Required Readings Excerpts Preface […]
Sheila L. Cavanagh is an associate professor at York University, Toronto, Canada and co-editor of Somatechnics journal at EUP. She is former coordinator of the Sexuality Studies Program at York (2010-2014) and outgoing chair of the Canadian Sexuality Studies Association (2014-2016). Her research is in the area of gender and sexuality with a concentration on […]
Please join us THIS THURSDAY, September 27, at 7:00 pm at Taste of India restaurant on Sheridan Dr., for the annual Fall Welcome Dinner of the Queer Studies Research Workshop. This is an opportunity to meet other faculty and graduate students interested in sexuality studies across all the disciplines, and to hear about the exciting […]
Jeffrey Masten, Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University “Christopher Marlowe’s Queer Futures: Edward and Richard, the Second” Reception to follow the talk.
Radical Histories, Radical Futures: Buffalo on the Vanguard of Feminist and Queer Thought Friday, October 12 | Hayes Hall 403, UB South Campus, 3435 Main Street (NFTA: University) 11:30 am | Coffee and registration 12 pm - 6:30 pm | Symposium 12:00 pm | "The Radical History of Buffalo and UB" Jennifer Wilson of The […]
