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WGS 2007-2008 Sponsored and Co-sponsored Events

For specific information about the 2007- 2008 WGS Speaker Series (click here for poster, dates are also listed below)

Legends in Queer Performance: Can Theater Change the World?
Monday, October 15, 2007, 5 pm
Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Theatre Offensive

Veiled Monologues: followed by a panel with artists and WGS faculty members
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 7:30pm pm
At the A.R.T

Cathy Cohen University of Chicago
Black Youth, Political Alienation and the Crisis of American Democracy
Friday, October 19, 2007, 2pm            
Barker Center Room 133

Catherine MacKinnon
“X-Underrated -- Pornography & Popular Culture”
Monday, October 22, 2007, 4:15 pm  
Barker Center, Thompson Room
Harvard College Women's Center co-sponsored event

Douglas Crimp University of Rochester
Action around the Edges
Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 5pm     
Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium

Judith Butler  University of California at Berkeley        
What Does Gender Want of Me? New Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 5pm               
Harvard Hall 202

Sexualities in the Middle East
Friday and Saturday, December 7th and 8th
If interested in attending, please email jaredmccormick@gmail.com to inquire about admittance.
For more information on the event details please visit the Center for Middle Eastern Studies website: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/976

Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World
Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 7:30 pm
Kresge Room
Co-sponsored by the HGLC

"For the Bible Tells Me So"
Documentary by Daniel Karslake about the use of religion to oppress homosexuals. Film will be screened,
followed by a panel made up of Harvard Divinity School's Reverend Irene Monroe, Divinity School student
and activist Jake Reitan, and Paulal J. Caplan of the Women. Gender, and Sexuality Program and DuBois Institute at Harvard. Film running time is 95 minutes.
February 12, 2008, 5:15 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110

Janet Jakobsen Barnard College
Perverse Justice: AIDS, Economics and the “War on Terror”
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 5pm          
Barker Center Room 133

Susan Stryker Simon Fraser University
Christine in the Cutting Room: The Cinematic Embodiment of Transsexual Celebrity Christine Jorgensen
Friday, March 7, 2008, 4 pm               
Barker Center 110, Thompson Room

Mary Louise Roberts University of Wisconsin- Madison
The Manly G.I. Photo: Gender and Photojournalism during the Second World War*
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 5:30 pm   
at the Center for European Studies

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo University of Southern California      
Domestic Work, Migration and the New Gender Order
Friday, April 4, 2008, 4 pm                  
Barker Center Room 133

Patricia Hill Collins University of Maryland
Winning Miss World: Gender, Race and the Contradictions of Colorblindness
Monday, April 14, 2008, 5:30 pm             
Sever Hall, Room 113

The Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Adrienne Rich
A Poetry Reading**
Monday, April 28, 2008, 4 pm 
Radcliffe Gym