2022 SPAN Workshop Announcement!
Call for Proposals: Conference Support for Graduate Students
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: April 18, 2022
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
Call for Graduate Student Commentators for the SPAN Annual Workshop
To all graduate students with interests in gender, sex, and sexuality,
We are writing to invite you to volunteer to be a commentator for one of the three talks that will be held in conjunction with the annual SPAN Workshop, whose theme this year is “Pandemic Sex: Intimacy | Virality | Separation in the Age of COVID-19.” The Workshop will take place Friday, April 22 on Zoom.
The three talks on Friday, along with the names of the invited speakers, are:
Talk I:
- How To Have Collectivity in a Pandemic – Deborah Gould + 1 commentator
Talk II:
- The Colonial Virus: A Short History from Karrabing – Elizabeth Povinelli + 1 commentator
Talk III:
- TBA – Mel Y. Chen + 1 commentator
We are especially interested in having graduate students play a key role throughout the workshop. Our plan is for each talk to be followed by one graduate student commentator, each of whom will speak for approximately 5 minutes. The goal of these comments is to frame the Q&A that will follow by highlighting key points and raising critical issues for discussion. Commentators will receive the paper two to three weeks in advance so that they can prepare their comments. The workshop is scheduled to run from 10:15 am – 4:30 pm on April 22nd. Commentators will be expected to attend all talks.
We very much hope that you will be interested in participating in this event! If you are, please let us know by Monday, March 28 which talk (or talks) you would be interested in commenting on by emailing Cassilyn Ostrander, sexualities@northwestern.edu. Also, let us know if you have any scheduling constraints for that day.
Prof. Mary Weismantel receives AALA-Arvey Foundation Book Award
Congratulations to Professor Mary Weismantel (Anthropology) whose book, Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots, won the 2022 ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award for the best book in Latin American History in English, Spanish or Portuguese! The research for the book was partially supported by SPAN.
SAVE THE DATE: 2022 SPAN Workshop
Pandemic Sex:
Intimacy | Virality | Separation
in the Age of COVID-19
April 22, 2022
10:15 AM to 4:30 PM CT, Zoom
Presentations by:
Mel Y. Chen (UC Berkeley)
Author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Deborah Gould (UC Santa Cruz)
Author of Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS
Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)
Author of The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality; Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism; Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism; and The Inheritance
SPAN Co-Sponsored Event: Applied Trans Technology Studies Symposium
Call for Proposals: Conference Support for Graduate Students
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: January 17th, 2022
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.
Call for Proposals: Conference Support for Graduate Students
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern helps graduate students to publicize their work and findings. Students are invited to apply for up to $750 in funding to offset expenses to attend conferences where they present work related to sexuality or sexual orientation.
Deadline: October 18, 2021
For application instructions and detailed information, please click here.