[Discussion] The Politics and History of Gender and Sexuality

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:44:28 -0700

     *Playing the Field: The Politics and History of Gender and
         Sexuality*

April 23-24, 2004

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*Conference is Free and Open to the Public*

         *Friday April 23, 2004***

 9:00-9:30am Coffee and bagels 301 Philosophy

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*9:30 Welcome 301 Philosophy*

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*Jim Downs, Columbia University (History)*

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*9:30-11: 00 Opening Roundtable 301 Philosophy*

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*Chair: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University (Department of=20
History)***

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*Indrani Chatterjee*, Rutgers University (Department of History)

*Lisa Duggan*, New York University (Department of History and American=20
Studies*)*

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*David Halperin, *University of Michigan (Department of English)

*Dorothy Ko*, Barnard College (Department of History)

*Susan Sturm*, Columbia University (School of Law)

*Carol Vance*, Columbia University (School of Public Health and=20
Department of Anthropology)

*11:00-12:30 -Session I*

   /Conceptualizing Subjectivity, Representing Sexuality 301 Philosophy//=
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*Chair: Courtney Fullilove, Columbia University (History)*

*Brian Connelly*, Rutgers (History)

"Incest and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century America:"

*Sandra Meiri*, Tel-Aviv University (Film Studies)

Gender and sexuality: two constitutions of the subject

*Jennifer Palmer*, University of Michigan (History)

"Engendering Race, Envisioning Gender: Creating Difference through the=20
Scientific Gaze

*Glenn Ramsey*, Binghamton University (History)

The Image and Subjectivity: Rethinking the Links Between Representation=20
and Activism in the German Movement for Homosexual Reform, 1897-1933*.*

   /State Regulation of Sex Dodge Hall///

*Chair: Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,=20
(History)*

*Steve Edwin*,

Gender melancholy and state terror in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de=20
los locos

*Jennifer Fronc*, Columbia University, History

"He Acted Like a Normal Man": Undercover Investigators, Gender, and=20
Sexuality"

*Marlene Medrano*, Indiana University, (History)

Prostitution on the Mexican border: the case of Ciudad Juarez

*Ljubov Bugaeva*, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, (Philology)

"Sexuality and Society: Russian experience

*12:30-1:30--Break//*

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*1:30-3:00--Session II*

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     Gender: In Theory and Practice 301 Philosophy

     Chair: Jennifer Tammi, Columbia University (History)

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*Patricia Purtschert*, University of Basel, Switzerland (Philosophy)

"Critical feminist philosophy and the politics of intervention"

*Monika Bear*, Wroclaw University, Poland (Ethnology and Cultural=20
Anthropology)

Studying Activists/Active Students: Gender and Queer Studies in=20
Post-Socialist Poland.

*Banu Helvacioglu,** *Bilkent University, Turkey, * (*Political Science)

An Intuitive Approach to Gender Formation in Turkey

*Jocelyn Crowley*, Rutgers University

Father's Movement

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   /Excavating Gendered Spaces: Historical Meditations on Politics of
   Place/

*/Dodge Hall/*

*Chair: Andrea Stanton, Columbia University (History Department)*

*Elizabeth LaCouture*, Columbia University, (History and East Asian=20
Studies)

Gendering the Chinese city from the inside out [urban home in Tianjin &=20
Shanghai, 1920-40s]

*Joshua Burford*,

Hiding in plain sight: gay men, public parks, and the search for identity

*Cheryl Fish*, Mt. Holyoke, "The Gendered, Sexed, and Raced Body in=20
Environmental Justice and Ecocritical Contexts

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*3:00-4:30:Roundtable 301 Philosophy*

 /Taking Down the Master's House: Gender and Sexuality in and out of
 the Academy/

Chair: Ellie DiLapi, Penn Women's Center

Katherine Franke, Columbia University (School of Law)

Joan Nestle, Lesbian Herstory Archives

Tim McCarthy, Harvard University (Department of History)

Karen Krahulik, Duke University, (Women's Studies) "Safe from S.A.F.E.:=20
activists and academics negotiating college campus SAFE zones"

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*5:00* happy hour

   Saturday

*9:00-9:30 Coffee and Bagels*

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Session IV

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*9:30-11:00*

   /Taking on Heteronormativity: New Directions in Historiography of
   Sexuality Dodge Hall/

   Chair: Jonathan Ned Katz, Yale University (Larry Kramer Initiative)

   Michal Shapira, Rutgers University (History)

   "History and Theory Can They Fit Together in Studies of Sexuality?"

*Mark Rifkin*,

Are Indians straight? Some thoughts on Native American kinship systems,=20
queer studies, & US empire

Ann S. Holder, Harvard University (W.E.B DuBois Institute)

"Who are "my own race"?: Complicating the Representations of=20
Heterosexuality in Historical Writing"

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, CUNY (Sociology)

"Sexuality" and "gender" in /Santer=EDa/: sexual minorities and gay=20
identification in New York's metropolitan area

   /Politics of Public Health 301 Philosophy/

*Chair: Sam Roberts, Columbia University (History and Socio-Medical=20
Sciences)*

*Sabya Sachi Mishra, *Indian School of the Mines, India (Social Sciences=20
and Medicine)

Disfiguring the feminine: women, laws, & the problem of venereal disease=20
in 19^th c India

*Agnieszka Kajrukszto, *City University of New York (Political Science)

Polish women's NGOs, health crisis, and the EU

*Matt Anderson, *Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Family Medicine)

Male AIDS patients and sexual identity in Guatemala

*Christelle Hamel*, Sorbonne

"The Power of Sex, Gender, Race and Class in Contemporary French=20
Society: HIV-Risk Management Among Young French People of North African=20
Descent:"

*11:00-12:30 Session V *

       In Response to Gay Marriage Dodge Hall

*Chair: Mignon R. Moore, Columbia University (Sociology)*

*Elizabeth Emens*, University of Chicago (School of Law), "Sensibility=20
vs. Theory: A Queer Theory of Same-Sex Marriage?"

*Scott Gunther*, Wellesley College (French) "Un Papa, Une Maman: Uses of=20
gender in debates over same-sex partnerships in France"

   Breaking Down Binaries: Politics of Women and Gender Studies//

*301 Philosophy*

Chair: TBA

*Tuija Pulkkinen*, University of Jyv=E4skyl=E4, Finland, (Women s studies=
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"The paradox of too much and not enough of Identity"

*Malena Gustavson*,/ /Linkoping University, Sweden (Gender Studies)

"What is Bi-feminism?

*Amy Brandzel*, University of Minnesota, (Feminist Studies)

"Whitenormative Citizens and Women's Studies: The Intellectual History=20
of Feminism and the Costs of Inclusion"

*Corie Hammers*, University of Oklahoma, (History)

"Homeless Inside the Academy"

*12:30-1:30 Break*

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*2:30: Closing Roundtable 301 Philosophy*

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*"In Search of Our Mother's Gardens:" Columbia History Department Alumni=20
on their work in the field of Gender and Sexuality*

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*Chair: Ashli White, Columbia University (History)*

*Erica Armstrong*, University of Delaware (History)

*Carol Berkin*, City University of New York (History)

*Eliza Byard*, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (Deputy=20
Executive Director)

*Jacquelyn Dowd Hall*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill=20
(History)

*Lynette Jackson*, University of Illinois at Chicago (History)

*Regina Morantz-Sanchez*, University of Michigan (History and American=20
Culture)