Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual Studies Lecture Series

Sponsored by the following organizations at Stanford University: the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Gay and Lesbian Alumni Club (GALA), the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Community Center (LGBCC) ; the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), the Program in Feminist Studies, the English Department, the Program in Slavic Studies, the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, and the Stanford Humanities Center. This Lecture Series explores a variety of issues in the burgeoning field of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual studies and coincides with the launching of a Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual studies minor through Stanford's Feminist Studies Department. Some lectures will be broadcast on Channel 51: The Stanford Channel.

Jonathan Katz

"The Invention of Heterosexualty"

Thursday, September 26, 1996

Susan Krieger

Feminist Studies Program, Stanford University

"Lesbian in Academe"

Thursday, November 21, 1996

A talk on academic freedom, institutionalized sexism, and homophobia in the university&emdash;all subjects of her new book, entiteld, The Family Silver: Essays on Relationships among Women just published by the University of California Press.

David Halperin

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Culture and Communication at the University of New South Wales. Author of One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love and Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography.

"Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality"

Tuesday, December 3, 1996

Paul Robinson

Professor of History at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and Author of The Modernization of Sex, Freud and His Critics, and Opera and Ideas from Mozart to Strauss.

"Homosexuality: Life-style Choice or Sexual Condition?"

Thursday, January 23, 1997

Carolyn Dinshaw

Associate Professor of English, University of California-Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Author of Chaucer's Sexual Poetics and Editor of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies.

"Queer Histories: Margery Kempe, Robert Glück, and the 104th Congress"

Thursday, February 13, 1997 at 4:30pm

Tania Modleski

Currently the Florence R. Scott Professor of English at the University of Southern California, Tania Modleski received her Ph.D from Stanford University and is one of the premiere voices in Feminist Theory; Film and Popular Culture. She is the author of Feminism Without Women: Culture & Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age, The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory, and Loving with a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women.

"The White Negress and the Heavy-Duty Dyke: On Sandra Bernhart's Without You I'm Nothing"

Thursday, March 6, 1997 at 4:30pm

Sponsored with additional support from: GALA, Feminist Studies, Modern Thought and Literature, the English Department and the Stanford Humanities Center.

Amy Robinson

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, Department of English, Georgetown University,fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and author of "It Takes One to Know One: Passing and Communities of Common Interest."

"The Ethics of Analogy: Discourse on Race and Sexuality "

Thursday, March 20, 1997 at 4:30pm

David Tuller

A reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, David Tuller will be speaking from his most recent book, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia. The book examines--in an entertaining and provacative fashion--controversies that have roiled the American gay and lesbian movement: How does culture influence the expression of sexual identity? What are the limits of American models of gay and lesbian identity? Is bisexuality a "closeted pose" or a genuine orientation? What "causes" homosexuality, anyway?

"Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia"

Thursday, April 4, 1997 at 4:00 p.m.

Joseph Sartorelli

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Arkansas State University and Rockefeller Fellow in Legal Humanities at the Stanford Humanities Center, and Co-Chair of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy Author of "Gay Rights and Affirmative Action"

"The Society of Otherness and the Otherness of Society:

Community, Identity, and the Philosophy of Gay Rights"

Thursday, April 24, 1997 at 4:30 pm

John Treat

Professor of Asian Languages at the University of Washington and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center; Editor of Contemporary Japan & Popular Culture. and Author of Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb.

"How Dirty was Dirty Dick? Orientalism and Object Choice"

Thursday, May 22, 1997 at 4:30pm

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