Friday April 25, 2008

Breakfast: 9:30-10am

Opening Remarks: Professor Judith Surkis, History Department,
Harvard University

10:15-12:45
Panel 1: The Sexual Boundaries of the Nation
Brad Epps (Harvard), chair

Sexual Democracy and Religious Roots. European Variations on National Identities
Eric Fassin, EHESS/ENS

Pro-Gay and Anti-Sex: Sexual Politics at a Turning Point in The Netherlands
Gert Hekma, University of Amsterdam

Cornered by ‘the Lobby’: A Few Remarks on the Gay-Jew Analogy in
Poland's Nationalist Revival
Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw

12:45-2:00 pm
Lunch Break

2:00- 3:30
Panel 2: Gender, Modernity, and "Tradition"
Uta Poiger (U. of Washington/Harvard), chair
Gender and Incommensurable Cultural Difference: West German
Feminists Come to Terms with Turkish Women
Rita Chin, University of Michigan

Gender in Tradition: A Kaleidoscope of Colonialisms?
Dicle Kogacioglu, Sabanci University

4:00- 5:30
Roundtable: Sexual and Religious Politics in
Transatlantic Perspective

Dagmar Herzog, CUNY Grad Center
Janet Jakobsen Barnard College

Reception, 5:30-6:30

 
Artist Tanja Ostojic discusses her image here: http://www.kultur.at/howl/tanja/ot/set01/docu08.htm