2010-2011 Events

Transnational Histories of Sexual Politics

The YRIHS 2010-2011 Lecture Series

All lectures take place at 5 PM in Yale’s Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), room 211, 320 York St., and are followed by a reception.  Free and open to the public. 

Thursday, Sept. 23, 5 pm, HGS 211

Leila Rupp, University of California, Santa Barbara
Transnational Homophile Organizing: The International Committee for Sexual Equality  

Monday, Oct. 11, 5 pm, HGS 211

Ara Wilson, Duke University
Sexual Latitudes: The Erotic Life of Globalization

Thursday, Nov. 11, 5 pm, HGS 211

Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Sexual Politics in Argentina since 1960

Valeria Manzano, University of Chicago
Sex, Gender, and the Making of the ‘Enemy Within’ in Argentina, 1960-1976
and 
Pablo Ben, University of Northern Iowa
The Homosexual Liberation Front: Argentina’s First Movement of Sexual Dissidence, 1968-1976

Thursday, Feb. 10, 5 pm, HGS 211 

Robert Beachy, Goucher College
The Homosexual Rights Movement in Berlin and Beyond:  Influences and Legacies

Thursday, March 24, 5 pm, HGS 211

Naisargi Dave, University of Toronto
Indian and Lesbian: Affect and Commensuration in India’s Lesbian Emergence

Thursday, April 21, 5 pm, HGS 211

Rebecca Jordan-Young, Barnard College
The Desiring Brain: Sex, Hormones, and Hardwiring