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- From: rizzoe@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Emily Rizzo)
- Subject: Crossings Over - Conference
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:42:51 GMT
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- The following notice came addressed to the Economics Department here at NYU
- and before I post it on our general announcement bulletin board I figured I
- would pass it along to soc.motss:
-
- CROSSINGS OVER - QUEER GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THE ACADEMY
-
- CALL FOR PAPERS
-
- As queer students working in the emerging discipline of Lesbian/Gay Studies
- or in a variety of traditional academic situations, we are currently faced
- with many pressing challenges and controversies. We need dialogue and
- debate in order most effectively to face these scholarly, political and
- personal challenges, but we often find ourselves confronting them on our
- own. This one-day conference will give those of us who study or live in or
- around New York the opportunity to get to know each other and discuss these
- issues together:
-
- * How does the academy affect queer "life," and how does queer
- life affect the academy? How do we negotiate the split commitments of
- academic and activist work?
-
- * Is there an obligation to be out in the academy? Are there cases in
- which it is appropriate to be closeted? What about lesbians/gay men who
- don't do lesbian/gay studies?
-
- * How do we handle lesbian/gay issues in the classroom, as teachers or
- students? How do we raise lesbian/gay issues wheen we teach high school
- or undergraduate students?
-
- * How do we define lesbian/gay studies? How does lesbian/gay studies
- relate to traditional disciplines?
-
- * Is Lesbian/Gay studies a "minority" discipline? How does it coexist,
- cooperate, or compete with Women's Studies, African-American Studies,
- etc.?
-
- * How "legitimate" is Lesbian/Gay Studies? How do we gain legitimacy?
- Do we want it? How do we choose our own work? Is our work marginal?
- How do we fashion ourselves for our job interviews, careers, etc.?
-
- * What happens when closeted or out lesbian/gay graduate students work
- with out teachers, closeted teachers, sympathetic straight teachers,
- hostile straight teachers, etc.? What kind of mentoring and pro-
- fessional support is available to lesbian/gay graduate students?
-
- We envision three roundtable sessions in which three to four speakers give
- five-minute presentations to generate group discussion.
-
- Send two- to four-page position papers of any of these topics by January
- 15th to:
-
- Lesbian/Gay Studies Group at Columbia
- CROSSINGS OVER
- c/o The Institute for Research on Women & Gender
- 763 Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
- New York, New York 10027
-
- Conference Date: Sat., March 6, 1993 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Earl Hall Auditorium, Columbia University
-