{"id":15,"date":"2012-05-24T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2021-08-14T01:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:36:33","slug":"leir-chair-programming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/leir-chair-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry J. Leir Chair Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is an overview, for more detailed accounts, go to the year-by-year buttons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Susana Antunes (University of Wisconsin \u2013 Milwaukee), \u201cPortugal an the National Imagination,\u201d May, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Velma Pollard (Jamaican Poet), co-sponsored talk in Prof. Ferly\u2019s seminar on Caribbean Women Writers, April, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patricia Layne (University of North Carolina): \u201cAfro-German Writing Today: Olivia Wenzel\u2019s <em>1000 Coils of Fear<\/em>,\u201d March 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lecture Series on German-Jewish Culture and Modern Multiculturalism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tiffany N. Florvil (University of New Mexico): &#8220;Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement,&#8221; February 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Hana Green (Clark University): \u201cPassing as Aryan: Female Jewish Identity during the Holocaust,\u201d January 2021<\/li>\n<li>Marc David Baer (London School of Economics): &#8220;German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Time of Hugo Marcus,&#8221; January, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Frances Tanzer (Clark University): \u201cThe Habsburg Empire and the Jews,\u201d January, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Andreas Krass (Humboldt University, Berlin): &#8220;Magnus Hirschfeld in Palestine,&#8221; January, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Elisabeth Imber (Clark University): \u201cTheodor Herzl,\u201d January, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania): \u201cBenjamin Veitel Ephraim: The Life and Work of Jewish Merchant, Writer, and Spy in Late Eighteenth Century Berlin,\u201d January, 2021&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Faculty Colloquium on the Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, December 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Tse-Chien Pan (University of California, Irvine).<\/li>\n<li>Christian Emden (Rice University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>#Faust4Now, November 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Todd Kontje (University of California, San Diego), \u201cThe Da.rk Side of Diversity: Saul Fitelberg\u2019s Failed Seduction.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University), \u201cThe \u2018Fascism\u2019 of Twelve-Tone Music: Emigration, Exile and the Genesis of <em>Dr. Faustus.&#8221; <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tobias Boes (University of Notre Dame), \u201cDoctor Faustus and the Weight of the German Past.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Simon Richter (University of Pennsylvania), \u201cFossil-Free Faust: Goethe and the Climate Emergency.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ruxandra Looft (Iowa State University), \u201cRosa Mayreder\u2019s <em>Anda Renata<\/em>: Subverting Faust and the Cult of Male Genius.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Nielsen (Montclaire State University), \u201cHomunculus, Motherless Creation: The Irony of Professing Love and Science in Goethe\u2019s <em>Faust.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Christopher Dea (independent director), On Directing Goethe\u2019s <em>Faust<\/em>, October 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nadine M. Knight (College of the Holy Cross), \u201c\u2019The Chaos of the Needy Dead\u2019: <em>Beloved<\/em> and the Struggle for Order,\u201d November, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Fleishman (University of Pennsylvania), \u201cCamp\/Abject: Queer Self-Erasure in Fassbinder\u2019s <em>Querelle<\/em>,\u201d (October 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College), \u201cMonsters and Exiles: Queer Arab Trauma.\u201d September 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Abod (independent filmmaker), \u201cThe Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen.\u201d September 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>William Koelsch (Clark University), \u201cThe Revenant Returns,\u201d Keynote Speaker at Opening of Exhibit on Clark LGBTQ History. April 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Queer Writers of Worcester, April 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Snediker (University of Houston), \u201cElizabeth Bishop.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Diedrich (Stony Brook University), \u201cPaul Monette.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Henry Abelove (Wesleyan University), \u201cFrank O\u2019Hara.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thomas Doughton (College of the Holy Cross), Gay Student Groups and Activism, March 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard Chiang (University of California, Davis): \u201cQueer Theory and Sinophone Studies.\u201d September 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Lucey (University of California, Berkeley): \u201cTranslating the Disaffected \/ Translating Sexuality.\u201d February 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rolf Goebels (University of Alabama in Huntsville): \u201cVisualizing Music: Schubert, Beethoven, and the Cinematic Fantasy.\u201d February 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Todres (Georgia State University): \u201cEngaging Young People: Human Rights in Children\u2019s Literature.\u201d October 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Schulman (CUNY): \u201cUnited in Anger: A History of ACT UP\u201d and \u201cConflict Is Not Abuse.\u201d September 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Sember (New School University): &#8220;Live to be Legend: Health, Art, and Kinship in the House and Ballroom Community.&#8221; April 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ken Reeves (MIT): &#8220;Brother to Brother: Gay Black Men from the Age of Reagan to the Age of Trump.&#8221; April 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Perspectives on Prostitution<\/strong><\/em><strong>. March 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Nina Kushner (Clark University, History): &#8220;Camille and Her Troubles in Historical Context.&#8221; .&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Ellen Foley (Clark University, IDCE): &#8220;Regulating Sex in Senegal.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;Marianne&nbsp;Sarkis&nbsp;(Clark University, IDCE): &#8220;From &#8216;ex-prostitute&#8217; to &#8216;survivor of sexual exploitation&#8217;: Changing terms to change perceptions and policies around commercial sexual exploitation (CSE)\/prostitution in Worcester.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>KJ Rawson (College of the Holy Cross): &#8220;Introducing the Digital Trans Archive.&#8221; March 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Helga Druxes (Williams College): &#8220;&#8216;Montag ist wieder PEGIDA-Tag&#8217;: Pegida&#8217;s Community Building and Discursive Strategies.&#8221; March 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LGBT Asylum Taskforce. February 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin \u2013 Milwaukee)<\/strong>: <strong>&#8220;The Art of Loss: Madame D&#8217;Ora, Photography, and the Restitution of Jewish Property after the Holocaust.&#8221; February 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Titler! Cabaret performance with Niki Luparelli. December 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth S. Anker (Cornell University): &#8220;For Love of Paradox: Human Rights and the Ends of Critical Theory.&#8221; November 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samuel Moyn (Harvard University): &#8220;Human Rights and the Holocaust, A Belated Entanglement.&#8221; October 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Wackerfuss (United States Airforce): &#8220;Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Nazi Party.&#8221; October 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Haggerty (University of California \u2013 Riverside): &#8220;What&#8217;s Queer about <em>Frankenstein<\/em>?&#8221; September 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The German Discovery of Sex: Prostitution, Patriarchy, Pornography. April 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jill Suzanne Smith (Bowdoin College): &#8220;Beyond the Femme Fatale: New Types of Prostitutes in Turn-of-the-Century and Weimar Berlin.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Shaun Jacob Halper (Yale University): \u201cIs Homosexuality a form of Genius? Reconsidering the Masculinist Wing of the First Homosexual Rights Movement in Central Europe.<strong>&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Peter Rehberg (University of Texas): &#8220;&#8216;The Revolution Is Your Boyfriend&#8217;: Sexual Utopias after Reich and Marcuse.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kevin Kopelson (University of Iowa), \u201cHas-Beens of the Cinema Firmament.\u201d October 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Dimitrov, \u201cThe Poetics of Desire: Alex Dimitrov Reads from <em>Begging for It.<\/em>\u201d October 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Blanco, inaugural poet of the United States, 2013, &#8220;The Journey to the Podium.&#8221; January 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Julian Smith (CUNY Graduate School), &#8220;After Volver: Almodovar in\/and Latin America.&#8221; October 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael S. Roth (Wesleyan University), &#8220;The Freudian and the Liberal Arts.&#8221; September 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stanley Corngold (Princeton University), \u201cFranz Kafka and the Poetry of Risk Insurance.\u201d April 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>German Film and the Frankfurt School. Spring 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gerhard Richter (Brown University), \u201cWalter Benjamin\u2019s \u2018The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.\u2019\u201d March 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Noah Isenberg (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts), \u201cRevisiting &#8216;The Decent German&#8217;: Siegfried Kracauer&#8217;s Critique of Postwar German Film.&#8221; March 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jennings (Princeton University), \u201cBenjamin, Kracauer, and the Invention of the Criticism of Popular Culture.\u201d February 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Queer Theory and the Roundabout. Fall 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brad Epps (Harvard University), \u201cThe (Queer) Space of the Vampire: Materiality and Disappearance in the Films of Iv\u00e1n Zulueta.\u201d December 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Worcester LGBT Asylum Taskforce. December 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Thibaut Schilt (College of the Holy Cross), \u201cFran\u00e7ois Ozon and Queerness <em>\u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise.<\/em>\u201d November 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Parker (Amherst College), \u201cMale Maternity in Nietzsche: Queering the Mother\u2019s Gender.\u201d October 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Susan Bernofsky, \u201cTranslating Transnationalism: Yoko Tawada\u2019s \u2018Naked Eye.\u2019\u201d April 2011.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA Mirror on Which to Dwell,\u201d Elliott Carter\u2019s Settings of Elisabeth Bishop\u2019s poems, in honor of the 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Bishop\u2019s birth in Worcester, MA. April 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Readings and opening lecture by Lloyd Schwartz (University of Massachusetts Boston)<\/li>\n<li>Performance by the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe German Discovery of Sex: Activism, Medicine and Literature.\u201d April 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Steakley (University of Wisconsin), \u201cHirschfeld\u2019s Role Models\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Scott Spector (University of Michigan), \u201cThe Bite of Zastrow: Sexuality and the Subject of Violence\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Breen (University of Connecticut), \u201cQueer Translations: Prime-Stevenson\u2019s <em>Imre<\/em> (1906) and <em>The Intersexes<\/em> (1908) and the Emergence of Homosexual Identity\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Yvonne Ivory (University of North Carolina), \u201cThe Oscar Wilde Scandal in the German Press<\/li>\n<li>Robert Beachey (Goucher College), \u201cGay Berlin.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"German Discovery of Sex Conference Photos\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/leir-chair-programming\/german-discovery-of-sex-conference-photos\/\">Conference Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Julia Ireland (Whitman College), \u201cNatural Science and National Socialism: Sleuthing in the Heidegger Archives,\u201d February 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joachim Pfeiffer (P\u00e4dagogische Hochschule Freiburg), \u201cJacob the Liar,\u201d March 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Jordan-Young (Columbia University), \u201cHardwiring and Soft Science: Rethinking Sex in the Brain,\u201d March 2010. (Facilitated and introduced.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Filkins, \u201cTranslating Ingebord Bachmann,\u201d at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, January 2010. (Contributed.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nora Gomringer, slam poetry at Worcester Polytechnic University, December 2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGlobal Freud.\u201d November 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Veronika Fuechtner (Dartmouth), \u201cBerlin Psychoanalytic: Modernism, Race and Psychoanalysis in Weimar Republic Germany.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Rub\u00e9n Gallo (Princeton), \u201cFreud and Stalin in Mexico.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Simek (Whitman), \u201cPostcolonial Freud.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Larson (University of Oregon), \u201cFreud and the Revolutionary Mind in China.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Keith Vincent (Boston University), \u201cFreud\u2019s Disciples in Japan.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sander Gilman (Emory), \u201cElectrotherapy Then and Now: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Treatments in Psychiatry.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u201cMusic and Psychoanalysis.\u201d QX performs \u201cLacan,\u201d by Matt Malsky (Clark University). November 2009<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoe Beloff, \u201cThe Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle.\u201d October 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie Freud, \u201cLiving in the Shadow of the Freud Family.\u201d October 2009. (Facilitated and introduced.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerard Camoin, \u201cUsing Poetry to Speak French.\u201d Fall 2009. (Contributed.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Yes Men, film directors and provocateurs, screen early draft of film. April 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zafer Senocak and Elizabeth O. Wright, \u201cPoetry and Politics.&#8221; March 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFilm and Music: International Perspectives and Histories.\u201d February 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julie Hubbert (University of South Carolina), \u201cMusic and German Invasion Films: Caligari in America.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Matt Malsky (Clark University), \u201cScoring Ruttman\u2019s Berlin Film: Considering Musical Meanings in Historical and Modern Contexts.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ivan Raykoff (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts), \u201cOskar Fischinger\u2019s Visual Music.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Marvin D\u2019Lugo (Clark University), \u201cCinematic Tangos: The Sound of the Culture Industry.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;Karl Nussbaum (Montclair State University) and John Aylward (Clark University), \u201cMy Voice Will Go With You.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lawrence Schehr (University of Illinois), \u201cBeautiful Boys: Representing Gay Identity in Contemporary French Film.\u201d October 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an overview, for more detailed accounts, go to the year-by-year buttons. 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