|
||||||||
Fall Letters from the Chairs of WGSS & LGBTS |
||||||||
You may all remember or know that October and November tend to be very busy times in the life of the University ... |
I am happy to write you at the start of my second year as Chair of Yale’s LGBT Studies Committee ... |
|||||||
What the Photogrammar Project Means to Meby Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality StudiesI spent my junior year in college as a special student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, inquiring into the meanings the humanities develop within a largely technological culture. The U. S. was mired in an escalating war in South East Asia and experiencing violent social conflict at home ... |
||||||||
Theory into Practice: WGSS helps Yale create a more positive sexual climate on campus
Over the past five years, Yale has been in a period of intense self-scrutiny, evaluating and improving its efforts to prevent and respond to sexual misconduct on campus. WGSS faculty and students are—no surprise!—deeply involved in this work ... |
||||||||
WGSS Faculty Profile: Professor Liz Montegaryby Shanaz Chowdhery, '13
Sunlight streams through the windows in William L. Harkness Hall as we sit around dark wooden tables. Class is about to end and all eyes are on Professor Montegary as she gestures wildly, explaining Dean Spade’s trickle-up social justice argument. To emphasize her points, Montegary pushes her arms up and out, illustrating how we should be pushing outside the boundaries of our minds to think outside the box when tackling complex issues ... WGSS 319a - Queer MobilitiesCody Hooks '13How could a single syllabus possibly contain readings on the history of settler colonialism, immigration and asylum law, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, and men who have sex with other men at roadside stops in the postwar South? Armed with the aim to explore the critical space between queer studies and mobility studies, our class “Queer Mobilities” examines the linkages between these different forms of movement ... |
||||||||
in conversation with Geetanjali Singh ChandaVanita Gupta (WS ’96) is a civil rights lawyer and the Deputy Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she oversees the ACLU's national criminal and drug law reform advocacy efforts. Gupta is an Indian-American, but was raised in England and France. After Yale, she went to New York University Law School, from which she graduated in 2001 ... |
||||||||
New Books by WGSS Faculty MembersWGSS congratulates our affiliated faculty members who have published their recent scholarship.
For a full listing of books and materials published by WGSS Faculty, please visit the Faculty Book Shelf at https://wgss.yale.edu/books/faculty-books |
||||||||
Conferences This Fall |
||||||||
Jonathan D. Katz and the (Il)Legible Queerness of Artby Christopher C. Young, first year graduate student in American Studies
|
Sex Abuse and The Study of Religionby Kathryn Lofton, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies and American Studies
In September an international gathering of fifteen scholars contributed |
LGBT Studies Honors David M. Halperin, This Year's Brudner Lecture Recipient
|
||||||
WGSS & LGBTS Speakers Series |
||||||||
Gender, Sexuality, and Media
|
From Abu Dhabi to Singapore, LGBT Rights and the Globalizing Academy
read MORE |
|||||||
Both the WGSS & LGBTS Speakers Series is organized by the Program of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies with support from the Edward J. and Dorothy Kempf Memorial Fund. |
||||||||
WGSS Announces the 2011-2012 Graduate Colloquium SeasonThe WGSS Graduate Colloquium is a venue in which students from a wide range of disciplines present work that engages issues in women's studies, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer studies ... |
||||||||
| All posters designed by Jessica Svendsen, BA '09 MFA '13 | ||||||||
 | ||||||||
Find us on |
WGSS LGBTS |
|||||||
)
)
)
)
)
