Workshop Archives
- SPRING 2008
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May 20
Melissa J.K. Howe, Center for Gender Stuides Fellow, Sociology Department, University of Chicago
Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Norms in a Muslim American Community -
May 6
Alison Lefkovitz, History Department, University of Chicago
Housewives for ERA: the Illinois Equal Rights Amendment and the Problem of Dependency, 1972-1978
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor in the Department of Labor and Employment Relations at Rutgers University
April 24
Transnational Labor Feminism and U.S. Social Policy, 1914-1975
April 17
Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University
Southern Dominance in Borrowed Language: The Regional Origins of American Neo-Liberalism
Pablo Ben, Hormel Fellow of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project and Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Chicago
April 8
Marica Identity in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930
- WINTER 2008
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March 11
Malgorzata Fidelis, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois - Chicago
New Women and Old Communities: Gender and Coal Mining in Postwar Poland
Elizabeth Perez, History of Religions and Center for Gender
February 26
Studies Fellow, University of Chicago
Women’s Work, Ritual Labor: Cooking and Conversion in Ilé Laroye
February 12
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
On Octopussies: Hugo and the Monstrosity of Feminine Sexuality
January 30
Deborah R. Vargas, Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine
Where is the 'Queer' in Latino Popular Music Studies?
January 15
Mary Anne Case, Professor of Law, University of Chicago
On Feminist Fundamentalism
- AUTUMN 2007
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October 2
Joseph Fischel, Political Science, University of Chicago
I Do? Towards an (Alternative) Alternative Sexual Politics
October 11
Christine Stansell, Professor, History, University of Chicago
Fragile Consolidation: Liberals, Feminism and Institutional Change,
1970-75
October 16
Muraleedharan Tharayil, Head of the English Department at St Aloysius College (Thrissur, Kerala, India)
Corporeal Inscriptions: Body in Colonial Modernity
October 30
John Osburg, CGS Fellow, Anthropology, University of Chicago
'Entertaining is My Job': Masculinity, Sexuality, and Leisure Among Chengdu's New Rich Entrepreneurs
November 13
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Hormel Fellow, History, University of Chicago
Black Politics and the Campaign for Chicago's Gay Rights Ordinance, 1973-1988
November 27
Qiyamah A. Rahman, Meadville Lombard Theological School
New Directions in Gender Studies and Religious Studies: Utilizing African Feminist Pedagogy to Develop Curriculum in South Africa's Historically Black Universities
- SPRING 2007
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April 3
Sarah Luna, Anthropology, University of Chicago
The Regulation of Prostitution and the Making of Mexican Nationalism on the US/Mexico Border
April 17
Robert Wyrod, Sociology, University of Chicago
The Boundaries of Monogamy: Masculinity and Sexuality in Urban Uganda in the Age of AIDS -
April 26
Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor English, Harvard University
Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Studies Workshop
May 1
Eric Fassin, Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Love of the Same, Love of the Other: Gay Marriage, Race, & Nation
Co-sponsored with The France Chicago Center and The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs -
May 8
Pablo Ben, History, University of Chicago
Sexual Comedy and Plebeian Masculinity in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930 -
May 15
Jingwoan Chang, Center for Gender Studies Resident Fellow, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Instructions on Being a Woman: Disciplining the Body in Onna Chohoki (1692) -
May 29
Sam Bergman, Hormel Fellow of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project, Psychology and Human Development, University of Chicago
Who Wears the Pants?: Gender, Family Roles, and Relationship Quality Among Female Coparenting Couples - WINTER 2007
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January 9
Jennifer Cole, Associate Professor, Human Development, University of Chicago
Making Love: Attachment and Reciprocity in Tamatave, Madagascar -
January 23
Stuart Michaels, Assistant Director for Curriculum and Development & Undergraduate Program Chair, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago
The History of 10%: Social Science Measures and the Emergence of Gay Identity -
February 6
Helen Li, Sociology, University of Chicago
Why states regulate prostitution: A study of Taiwan's two regimes' quest for legitimacy -
February 20
Kristin Bloomer, Theology, CGS Resident Fellow, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago
Being Maataa: Roman Catholicism and Marian Possession in Tamil Nadu, South India -
March 6
Sarah Potter, History, CGS Dissertation Writing Fellow, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago
Owning Domestic Space: Renting, Renovating, and Redefining the Family Home in Post-World War II Chicago
- AUTUMN 2006
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October 10
James Fortney, Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago
'Con quel tipo li': Gay Characters in Natalia Ginzburg's Narrative Families -
October 26
Shaka McGlotten, Associate Professor of Media, Society & The Arts, SUNY Purchase
A Brief and Improper History of Queerspaces and Sexpublics in Austin, Texas -
November 7
Kathleen Frederickson, English, University of Chicago
Freud's Australia -
November 21
Arnika Fuhrmann, South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
What kind of case is the case of a ghost? Femininity, loss, and recovery in contemporary Thai cinema's horror-ghost genre -
December 5
Keisha Lindsay, Political Science, University of Chicago
Intersecting Privilege and Oppression in Black Male Crisis Narrative Texts
Co-sponsored with the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop
- SPRING 2006
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April 4
Robert Wyrod, University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology
Being a Man in Bwaise Town: Masculinity in Urban Uganda in the Age of AIDS -
April 13
Judy Wu, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University and CSRPC Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Revolutionary Travelers: People's Diplomacy, Third World Internationalism and American Orientalism
Co-sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Studies Workshop and the East Asia: Trans-Regional Histories Workshop. -
April 18
Elizabeth Bucar, Center for Gender Studies Fellow, University of Chicago, Religious Ethics
Iranian Shi'ite Back Talk: Tightrope Acts Over Common Moral Ground -
May 2
Jeff Rees, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Religious Ethics
God is a Queer Subject -
May 16
Erica Townsend-Bell, Ph.D. Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis, Dept. of Political Science
Possibilities of Multiracial Mobilization -
May 30
J. Ckristafer Baker, University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
If you have a dick, you should act like a man! The Patriarchal Phallus and the Fallacy of Gender: Some Notes for Anyone Who is Not Straight, White, or Male - WINTER 2006
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January 10
Rochona Majumdar, Asst. Professor, University of Chicago, South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Family Values in Modern India: The Hindu Code Debates of 1955-1956 -
January 24
Timothy Stewart-Winter, University of Chicago, Dept. of History
Putting Gay Gentrification in its Place: Reflections on the Origins of San Francisco's Castro District
GSSW co-sponsoring with the Urban Studies Workshop -
February 7
Rachel Rinaldo, University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology
Transforming Feminism: The Politics of Islam and Women's Rights in Indonesia -
February 23
Rosamond King, Assistant Professor, Long Island University, Dept. of English, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture
Representing Self & Other: Transgender/Travesti in Caribbean Texts
GSSW co-sponsoring with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and the Center for Latin American Studies. -
March 7
Annette Huizenga, Center for Gender Studies Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Biblical Studies
A Good Woman Who Can Find? Reading the Pastorals in Context - AUTUMN 2005
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October 4
Pamela Cook, Gender Studies Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science
In Search of Herstyle: Womanist Consciousness and African-American Women's Poitical Participation -
October 18
Lynette Jackson, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Gender & Women's Studies and African America Studies
Ambiguities of Protection: Gender, Displacement and Someplace Like Home -
November 1
Margot Canaday, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Dept. of History
Most Fags are Floaters: The Problem of 'Unattached Persons' During the Early New Deal, 1933-1935 -
November 15
Darren Ilett, Hormel Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Germanic Studies
The Homoerotic Body and Narrative Form in Heinrich Mann's 'Abdankung' (Abdication) -
November 29
Daniel Chen, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology
Gender Violence and the Price of Virginity: Theory and Evidence of Incomplete Marriage Contracts - SPRING 2005
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April 5
Suzy Kim, University of Chicago, Dept. of History, Gender Studies Fellow
The Woman Question in Post-Liberation North Korea -
April 19
Hee-Kang Kim, University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science, Gender Studies Fellow
Egalitarian Theory of Justice: From a Feminist Perspective -
April 26
Steve Epstein, Assoc Professor in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego
Bodies, Identities, and the Biopolitics of Health Research: The Place of Sexuality in the 'Inclusion-and-Difference Paradigm' -
May 3
Josh Pilzer, University of Chicago, Dept. of Music, Ethnomusicology, Gender Studies Fellow
Imagine humanity to be a joke: Pak Duri's songs of survival -
May 17
Jennifer Spruill, University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
The Incorporated Citizen: Liberated, Authentic, Imperiled - WINTER 2005
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January 11
Darren Ilett, University of Chicago, Germanic Studies
Knowledge, Secrets, and Homoeroticism in Two Turn-of-the-Century Boarding School Narratives: Rilke's "The Gym Class" and Walser's Jakob von Gunten -
January 18
LGSP and CMS Series & Special Meeting of the Gender & Sexuality Workshop with French Filmmakers Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel
Current Independent Cinema and Queer Issues in France -
January 25
Lynette Jackson, University of Illinois at Chicago, Associate Professor, Depts. of Gender and Women's Studies and African American Studies
From Two Colonialisms to Two Pandemics: Historical Trajectories of Gender Violence and AIDS in Zimbabwe -
February 8
Fanny Dolansky, University of Chicago, Department of Classics
Religion in the Roman Family: Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulations -
February 22
Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Art History
Erotic Triangles, Print Culture, and Artistic Identity in the Renaissance: The Case of Vulcan, Venus and Mars -
March 8
Carrie Dohe, University of Chicago, Divinity School
The Hermaphroditic Sun-Child as Nietzschean Superman: Cultural Critique and "the Coming Religion" in Alfred Schuler's Esoteric Speculations in Early Twentieth-Century Germany - AUTUMN 2004
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October 5
Pablo Ben, Department of History
Queer Identities at the Turn of the 19th Century in Buenos Aires -
October 19
Sarah Rivett, Department of English
The Aesthetics of Religious Experience: Empiricism, Epistemology, and the Gendering of Grace in Puritan Testimony -
November 2
Tomomi Yamaguchi, University of Chicago, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for East Asian Studies
Japanese Feminism And The Politcs Of History-Making -
November 16
Antoinette Burton, History Dept at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Cold War Cosmopolitanism and the Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau -
November 30
Elizabeth Bucar, Divinity/Ethics, Center for Gender Studies Fellow
Virgins, Mothers, and Rebels Construction of Women's Proper Role in the thought of Ayatollah Khomeini - SPRING 2004
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April 6
Miho Matsugu, University of Chicago Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Geisha and Empire-Building: Imperialist Modernism in Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country, 1934-1937 -
April 20
Stacie Raucci, University of Chicago, Department of Classics
Can You Resist a Look? Propertius on Women and Vision -
May 18
Thomas Foster, University of Miami
Manliness and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts -
May 14
Carl Nash, University of Chicago, Department of History
Out in the Second City: Gay and Lesbian Politics and Community in Chicago, 1940s to 1980s -
June 1
Tara "Red" Tremmel, Department of History, Gender Studies Dissertaion Writing Fellow
Midwestern Cowboys in Baghdad: Race, Nation, and Pleasure in America's 1950s Mecca - WINTER 2004
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January 13
Natasha Tinsley, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature
Tropical Gardens on the Road to Lesbos: Locating the Woman of Color in the Lesbian Imagination of 1920s Paris -
January 22
Susan Manning, English and Theater, Northwestern University
Making a (Queer) American Dance: Jos'im Merce Cunningham, and Alvin Ailey -
January 27
Bertram J. Cohler, William Rainey Harper Professor, Departments of Human Development and Psychology
Writing Desire: Life-Story and Social Change among Men Seeking Sex with Other Men -
February 10
Moon Duchin, Department of Mathematics
Mapping Sex and the Social: The Geometry of Gender -
February 27
Judith Halberstam, University of California, San Diego, Department of Literature
Ceremonies of Our Present: Photography and Queer Subcultures -
March 4
Douglas Crimp, Art and Art History, Rochester University
Coming Together to Stay Apart: Andy Warhol's Collaboration with Ronald Tavel - AUTUMN 2003
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October 7
Debra Michaud, Dept. of History, University of Chicago.
Victorian Ladies, Mannish Monsters, and Sexual Transgressions: The Trials of Lillian Duer and the Making of a Modern Lesbian Scandal. -
October 14
Nadine Hubbs, Departments of Music Theory and Women's Studies, University of Michigan.
Orchestrating National Identity: Queer Modernists' Creation of 'America's Sound.' -
October 21
Malayna Williams, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.
A Diachronic Survey of the Socio-Political Status of Ancient Egyptian Priestesses. -
November 4
Tone Hellesund, Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Research, University of Bergen, Norway.
Queer spinsters? Norwegian single women 1870-1940. -
November 18
Tim Stewart-Winter, Dept. of History, University of Chicago.
Gender,Conscription, and Conscience: The World War II Draft and the Remaking of American Pacifism. - SPRING 2003
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April 8
Kathleen Frederickson, Department of English, University of Chicago
Feeling Yourself (Genres of Affect, Genres of Sexuality 1880-1900) -
April 17
Joint meeting with the Latin American History Workshop
Pablo Ben, Department of History, University of Chicago
Child Queer Prostitution, Buenos Aires 1870-1910 -
May 6
Hee-Kang Kim, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, CGS Fellow
Women's Choice and Women's Responsibility: Understanding Equality and Autonomy -
May 20
Barbara Ransby, Department of African-American Studies, UIC
The 'Dual Consciousness' of Black Women Activists in the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century: Ella Baker and The Underground Fight for Gender Democracy in the Black Community -
June 2
Laura-Zoe Humphreys, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Democracy and Strawberry-Flavoured Pink Dollars: The Reception of Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Fresa y Chocolate - WINTER 2003
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January 14
Joint meeting with the Medieval Studies Workshop
James Schultz, UCLA
Courtly Love of the Courtly Body -
January 28
Keisha Lindsay, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Finding Foucault's Freedon: Sex, Fun, and Fashion in the Jamaican Dancehall -
February 1
Kim Reilly, Department of History, University of Chicago, 2002-3 Gender Studies Dissertation Writing Fellow
"There can be no Mystery Between Equals": Sexuality and Sexual Difference in the US, 1900 - 1920 -
February 18
Julie Graham, Department of Geography, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Politics of Empire/Politics of Place -
March 11
Mia Yagod, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, 2002-3 Gender Studies Dissertation Writing Fellow - AUTUMN 2002
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October 22
Bill Mihalopoulas, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago
Ousting the 'Prostitute': Retelling the Story of the Karayuki-san -
November 5
Jeffrey Masten, Department of English, Northwestern University
On Q: Towards an Introduction to Queer Philology -
November 19
Charis Thompson, Department of History of Science, Harvard University
The Biotech Mode of (Re)Production - WINTER 2002
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January 9
Marta Lois, Department of Political Science
What is the value of multiculturalism for women? Gender equality and some cultural practices in the European context -
January 23
Suzanne Pelka, Committee on Human Development
Lesbian Couples Using In-Vitro-Fertilization (IVF) to Co-Mother -
February 13
Sonya Michel, Gender and Women's Studies, UIC
The Benefits of Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Democracy and Equity in America's Public/Private Welfare State -
February 27
Anna Marie Smith, Dept. of Government, Cornell
Welfare Reform as Culture War: The Population Management Dimension of Contemporary American Welfare Policy - AUTUMN 2001
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October 3
Welcome, discussion of readings by Cheshire Calhoun ("Separating Lesbian and Feminist Theory"), Angela Davis and Gina Dent ("Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization, and Punishment") -
October 17
Jackie Orr, University of Syracuse
"Keep Calm!" For the Cold War: Diary of a Mental Patient -
October 31
Dawne Moon, Sociology, UC Berkeley
How Born Gay and Ex-Gay Arguments are Really the Same: Unspoken Power in Moral Debates -
November 14
Steven Seidman, SUNY-Albany
From Identity to Queer Politics: Shifts in Patterns of Normative Heterosexuality -
November 28
Edith Garneau, Political Science, University of Chicago
Gender and the Politics of Aboriginal Self-Determination in Canada - Past Workshops of Gender and Society 2000/2001
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April 4
"Dream Girls": Video on Takarazuka; selections from Robertson -
April 18
Jennifer Robertson, Anthropology, Michigan
Japan's First Cyborg? Miss Nippon, Eugenics, and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body, and Blood -
May 16
Tanya Jayani Fernando, Comparative Literature
The Scene of Shock: Race , Gender, and the Modern City -
May 30
Joan Haran, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of Warwick
After the Holocaust: Projects of Memory and Hope for the Future in The Gate to Women's Country, The Fifth Sacred Thing and He, She and It
Lesbian, Gay and Queer Studies Workshop Archive
- SPRING 2001
- Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan
Japan's First Cyborg? Miss Nippon, Eugenics, and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body, and Blood
Held in conjuction with Gender and Society Workshop. - Valerie Traub
Held in conjuction with with the Renaissance Workshop. - Kelly Gillespie, University of Chicago
Gendered Skins: A video presentation of conversations with South African prisoners - T. Vaughan Tremmel, University of Chicago
Gangsters, Gamblers and Other Queers: The Sexual and Political Economy in the Postwar United States, 1945-1975 - WINTER 2001
- Greta Rensenbrink, University of Chicago, History,
Lesbian and Gay Studies Dissertaion Fellow
Fat Feminism: Beyond the Politics of Appearance - Jim Madigan, University of Chicago, Law School
Questioning the Coercive Effect of Self-identifying Speech - AUTUMN 2001
- SPRING 2000
- Chad Heap, History, University of Chicago, History
Marking Deviance and Making Heterosexuals: 'Slumming' in Prohibition-Era Chicago and New York - Jennifer Spruill, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Street Rituals: PRIDE and Matrimony in the Post-Apartheid Nation - Didier Eribon, Paris
The Impact of Reading Nietzsche on Gide and Foucault - Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University, History
and East Asian Studies
Women, Youths, and Men: Male-Male Eroticism and the Age/Gender System of Tokugawa Japan - Greta Rensenbrink, University of Chicago, History
Lesbian Feminist Body Politics in the 1970s
- AUTUMN 2000
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October 19
Judith Halberstam
Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Gender, Race, and Masculinity in the Drag King Scene
Joint Meeting of Gender and Society & The Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Studies Workshops. -
November 9
Ritty Lukose, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Between Love and Marriage: Romance in Public
Joint Meeting with the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project.