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Questions: Contact Shawn Cowls at 917-696-1763 or Fund for Reunion
For release on Monday, October 6, 2003
The Fund for Reunion, Inc. and Princeton University's LGBT Student Services are pleased to announce the inauguration of The Fund for Reunion LGBTQ Lecture Series, a program of lectures on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) topics.
The inaugural slate of lectures takes place over the course of the 2003/2004 academic year and will include twelve to fourteen lectures on LGBTQ topics, ten of which have been confirmed. In a unique collaboration with Yale University's Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, six of these lectures are being coordinated by the Larry Kramer Initiative and will be presented at both Princeton and Yale Universities.
Following is the current list of lectures planned for the 2003/2004 academic year. Lectures marked with an asterisk (*) will be presented at both Princeton and Yale on successive days. Lectures, at both Princeton and Yale, are open to the public at no charge.
• Kim Pearson, Professor of English at The College of New Jersey Ewing
"Small Murders: Race, Homophobia, and The Murder of Sakia Gunn"
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 Noon
• Dennis Altman, Professor of Politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, President AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific
*"Queer Centers and Peripheries"
Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:30pm
• Susan Stryker, Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society as well as author, journalist, film maker
*Lunch Talk: "Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of Paperback"
Thursday, October 9, 2003 Noon
*Evening Talk: "Transcending Boundaries: Activism and Riots in San Francisco's Tenderloin District"
Thursday, October 9, 2003 7pm
• E. Lynn Harris, author, visiting professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Discussion of his new memoir addressing his life as a black gay novelist
Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8pm
• Kiki Jamieson, Lecturer in the Politics Department at Princeton University
"Law and Social Change in the LGBT Community"
Thursday, November 20, 2003 Noon
• Steven Seidman, Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany
*"Identity and Realities After the Closet"
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 4:30pm
• Harry Britt, Harvey Milk Chair in Activism and Social Justice at New College of California
*Topic to be confirmed
Spring 2004
• Carolyn J. Dean, Professor of History at Brown University
*Topic to be confirmed
Spring 2004
• Sandi Dubowski, filmmaker and writer
Film and Discussion: "Trembling Before G-d"
Spring 2004
• David Weissman, filmmaker
*Film and Discussion: "Cockettes"
Spring 2004
The series was developed and is being administered by Debbie Bazarsky, Princeton University's LGBT Student Services Coordinator and Assistant to the Dean of Undergraduate Students, with assistance from: FFR President Shawn Cowls, Professor Mark Blasius, of CUNY, LaGuardia; and Jonathan D. Katz, Executive Coordinator of Yale's Larry Kramer Initiative. FFR is the primary source of funding. LGBT Student Services, the Frist Campus Center, and the Dean of Undergraduate Students, are also providing financial support.
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Princeton University's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Student Services is by, for, and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, questioning, and ally members of the Princeton University community. LGBT Student Services works to create a safe and supportive academic environment through providing educational opportunities and advocating for the needs and concerns of LGBT students. For more information, contact the LGBT Student Services Coordinator, Debbie Bazarsky at 609.258.1353 or send an email to bazarsky@princeton.edu or visit the home page at: http://www.princeton.edu/odus/db.htm The Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale supports the Lesbian and Gay community at Yale University through academic programs including lectures, conferences and symposia, special events, and community building activities. The first Ivy League program of its kind, the Larry Kramer Initiative is positioned to become the global center for lesbian and gay thought, already the largest such endeavor in any research university. LKI aspires to transform Yale's multifaceted offerings into a model for higher education, and to integrate the insights of lesbian and gay studies into public debate. |
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