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Gender and Sexuality Studies Lectures and Events

 

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

 

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

 

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Lynne Joyrich
"Media Madness: Multiple Identity (Dis)Orders in MAD MEN"

Lynne Joyrich GNSS Lecture
5:00 pm, Room 305, Pembroke Hall

A reception will follow the lecture.

Lynne Joyrich will present some of her recent work in the study of television and culture, focusing on the award-winning program Mad Men. Exploring how Mad Men's multiple media positions (across television, advertising, film, and digital technologies) intersect with the program's treatment of various social positions (across categories of race, sexuality, gender, and generation), she will address issues of media, identity, and consumer culture.

 

 

 

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Anne Fausto-Sterling
"Gender, Sexuality, and the Problem of Memory"


5:00 pm, Room 305, Pembroke Hall

A reception will follow the lecture to celebrate the new Nancy Duke Lewis Professor.

Anne Fausto-Sterling is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, and Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University.

Fausto-Sterling will present her recent, exploratory inquiries into attempts to explain the varieties of gender expression and human sexual desire. She will look at social scientific use of personal memory as a form of statistically analyzable data, contrasting this use with contemporary neurobiological understandings of how memory works. Following two recent books (Ansermet et al, The Biology of Freedom, and Harris's Gender as Soft Assembly), she will show how neurobiology may have more in common with psychoanalytic understandings of memory than it does with psychology or sociology.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Nancy Armstrong
"Gender Must Be Defended"


5:00 pm, Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall

Reception will follow

Nancy Armstrong is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies. Her fields of interest include eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and American fiction, empire and sexuality, narrative theory, critical theory, and visual culture.