Thursday, April 21, 2011

Feminist Research Institute Panel Presentation

The Feminist Research Institute invites you to a panel presentation:

Queer Politics: Gay and Lesbian Impacts in Political Spaces of the US and Mexico

Wednesday, April 20th
12:00-1:30 p.m.
SUB Cherry/ Silver

Panel Presenters:
Lucinda Grinnell, PhD Candidate, History
“Grassroots and Global?: Defending Lesbian Rights as Human Rights in Mexico”

Lavinia Nicolae, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
“Deadlock over Wedlock: Kinship, Politics and Identity in New

Mexico’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate”

Kellie Sawyer, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
“Philadelphia’s Straight History/Gay Nightlife: Tourism and ‘Diversity’ in the U.S. Nation’s ‘Freedom Capital.’”

Join them for a panel presentation on the ways that gay and lesbian populations have constructed a specific sense of national belonging through notions of citizenry, human rights, and international political engagement
in both the US and Mexico.

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