Fall 2008 Events
Friday, October 3
Compás de Nicaragua: Women in Action Dance Ensemble
4:30 pm
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Dance performance featuring traditional dances and music of Nicaragua. The performance also includes the story of Women in Action (WIA), impoverished women living in one of the poorest settlement of Managua, Nicaragua; street vendors who sell what they can on the streets in order to provide for their families, and how they have been able to work together to create projects that have drastically improved health, nutrition, and education in their community. Segments of a video about WIA will also be played throughout the performance. There will also be an information table and an exhibition of gourd art from WIA's art cooperative. Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Planning & Diversity, Alliance for Civic Engagement, Women's and Gender Studies-Chellis House, The Dance program, and the Mahaney Center for the Arts.
Friday, October 17 Lecture by George Chauncey (Yale University)
“From Sodomy Laws to Marriage Amendments: A Century of Sexual Identity/Politics”
4:15 p.m.
Axinn 229
George Chauncey is a professor of history at Yale University. His work includes Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today’s Debate over Gay Equality, as well as numerous articles on the history of gender and sexuality. Professor Chauncey is currently completing The Strange Career of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness, and Politics from the Second World War to the Gay Liberation Era, which reconstructs the racially-segregated and class-stratified African American, Latino, and white gay male worlds and sexual cultures of postwar New York City, analyzes the generational shift from the culture of the double life to the culture of coming out, and reinterprets the sources of postwar antihomosexualism, the development of gay politics, and the transformation of urban liberalism.
Wednesday, October 22
Dancing with Death: Gender & Black Popular Music in the Age of HIV/AIDS
7:00 p.m.
Axinn 229
Is the Black community more homophobic than others? Using music videos as a marker, this workshop will explore gender differences in the Black community, and the social and political forces that impact the visibility of Black queers in American culture from the disco era to the present.
Kenyon Farrow is the National Public Education Director at Queers for Economic Justice.
Co-sponsored by Office for Institutional Planning & Diversity, PALANA House, Queer Studies House, MCAB Speakers Committee, Music Department, MOQA, Sociology/Anthropology Department, Women's and Gender Studies-Chellis House.