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Studies in Sexuality Lecture Series

Faculty and graduate students interested in presenting their work for the next lecture series should contact Prof. Kelly Donahue-Wallace, School of Visual Arts, UNT.  KWallace@art.sch.unt.edu
 

Studies in Sexuality: Past Lectures

Spring, 2003:

Teresa Marrero, Foreign Languages and Literature,  UNT
"Scripting Sexual Tourism: Performance, Prostitution and Cuba's Special Period."  March 5.

Sean Griffin, Film Studies, SMU
"Hetero."  April 9.

Harry Benshoff,  Radio, Film, and Television, UNT
"Receiving Mr. Ripley: Queer Theory at the Multiplex?"
April 22.


Fall, 2003:

Don Smith, Political Science, UNT
"Corporate Policy Innovation and Adoption: Diffusion of Domestic
Partnership Benefits Policies in the Fortune 500."
September 24.

Marilyn Morris, History, UNT
"Sexualities Before Sexuality."  October 8.

**Special Presentation from the Film Department**
Kevin Heffernan, Film Studies, SMU
"Gender and Genre Revisionism in Sixties European Horror: The Films of Jess Franco" (film showing included).  October 23.

Deborah Needleman Armintor, English, UNT
"'The Tortoise here and Elephant unite': Eighteenth-Century British Erotica and the Sexualization of Generic Difference." November 14.

Erika Nelson, Foreign Languages - German, UNT
"Negotiating the Male Voice in New Berlin: Orphic Identity and Masculinity in Wim Wender's Wings of Desire and Doris Doerrie's Nobody Loves Me."  December 4.

Spring, 2004:

Paul Menzer, English, UNT
"Shakespeare is Homosexual, Heterosexual, or Bi-sexual: Discuss."
January 27.

Jacque Lambiase, Journalism, UNT
"Sex in Promotional Culture: How Mass Media and Corporations Use Erotic Appeals to Attract Attention and to Brand Products."
February 20.

Scott Simpkins, English, UNT
"Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Surrogate Sexualities." March 25.

Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Visual Arts, UNT
"Whips, Chains, and the Chastity of Nuns." April 21.

Fall, 2004:

Jacqueline Foertsch, English, UNT
"Softball or Rough Trade: Lesbian and Gay Visibility in Urban Spaces."
September 28

Alexander Doty, Film Studies, Lehigh University
"Hepburn, Cukor, Queerness, and Sylvia Scarlett."
October 12
Followed by a screening of Sylvia Scarlett (1935, dir. George Cukor).  Sponsored by RTVF.

Film: Bike Boy (1968, dir. Andy Warhol)
October 12
Sponsored by RTVF.

Harry Benshoff, Radio, Television, and Film, UNT
"
Beyond the Valley of the Classical Hollywood Cinema?: Rethinking the 'Loathsome Film' of 1970."
November 1.

Jim Quinn, Rehabilitation, Social Work, and Addictions, UNT
"Sex Offenders: Myth, Reality, and the Origins of a Stereotype."
November 15.

Fall 2005:

Marilyn Morris, History,  UNT
"Eighteenth-Century Gender Bending and the Question of Sexuality"
October 6, 3:30, LANG 107.

Chwee-Lye Chng, Kinesology, UNT
Doug Henry, Anthropology, UNT
Mark Vosvick, Psychology, UNT
"New Perspectives in HIV Research"
October 24, 3:30, LANG 107A.

Sean Griffin, Film Studies, SMU
"E-tickets: Gay Day at the Disney Theme Parks."
November 7, 3:30, LANG 107A

Spring 2006:

Nicole Smith, English,  UNT
"
Immoral Chaucer: Sex, Fashion, and Spectatorship in The Parson's Tale"
February 20, 3:30, LANG 107.

Jeff Bennett, Communications,  UNT
"
Citizenship in Vein: Queer Identity and the Stigma of Banned Blood"
March 22, 3:30, LANG 109.

Nathan Smith, Psychology and Philosophy, TWU
"Anti-Gay Discrimination in the Workplace: Relations to Adjustment and Social Interactions"
April 18, 3:30, LANG 109.

Spring, 2007:

George Rolands, School of Visual Arts, UNT

"Images of Male-Male Sexual Violence in Goya's Los desastres de la guerra." February 28 at 4PM, ART 223.

 

 

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