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Signature Lecture Series

Leslie Feinberg, Firebrand Books, and the “Place of Place” in LGBTQ History

Jeff Iovannone

October 12, 2023
Dr. Jeff Iovannone discusses his award-winning, GIS-based exhibit Leslie Feinberg’s Buffalo: Historic Sites in Stone Butch Blues in the context of what he refers to as the “place of place,” or the role and importance of place and place-making, in U.S. LGBTQ history. The talk highlights sites represented in transgender lesbian writer and activist Leslie Feinberg’s multiple award-winning novel Stone Butch Blues connected to the University at Buffalo, as well as the Firebrand Books Building in Ithaca, New York, as representative examples. Iovannone argues that preservationists have an imperative to conserve both LGBTQ places and spaces and will offer strategies that move from theory to practice, including when place and space are contested. Dr. Jeff Iovannone (Yo-van-oh-nay) is a historian and historic preservation planner from Buffalo, New York who specializes in the social history of the built environment, LGBTQ heritage conservation, and queer site-based history. He holds a PhD in American Studies from the University at Buffalo and a Masters in Historic Preservation Planning with a minor in LGBT Studies from Cornell University. While at Cornell, Iovannone was the recipient of the Biddy Martin Graduate Prize for LGBTQ+ research for his digital, GIS-based exhibit Leslie Feinberg’s Buffalo: Historic Sites in Stone Butch Blues and the prestigious John W. Reps Award for superior academic excellence in historic preservation planning. From 2013 to 2021, he was a faculty member in the departments of History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the State University of New York at Fredonia, directed the program in Women’s and Gender Studies, and designed and taught the university’s first courses on LGBTQ history. Iovannone is a trailblazer in documenting the LGBTQ history of Upstate New York. In June 2020, he co-founded the Gay Places Initiative with Preservation Buffalo Niagara, a joint project that documents LGBTQ historic places in Buffalo. In 2022, he led a successful effort to locally landmark the building that housed the nationally recognized lesbian and feminist press Firebrand Books in Ithaca, New York. He also interned with the Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York and consults for the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, a cultural heritage initiative that is a national leader in LGBTQ preservation. Iovannone is currently a preservation planner with the Landmark Society of Western New York.

Feminist Research Alliance

Repurposing Title IX: How Sexual Harassment Became Sex Discrimination In American Higher Education

Celene Reynolds

May 5, 2023
TALK BY DR. CELENE REYNOLDS Addressing discrimination based on certain identities, such as race or gender, is a major concern for American colleges and universities. In 2011, the Department of Education clarified that sexual harassment is a form of discrimination that schools must eliminate under Title IX, the 1972 U.S. civil rights law that guarantees the right to equal educational opportunity regardless of sex. Colleges and universities now spend millions to manage sexual harassment through specialized bureaucracies often spread over multiple offices with upward of 50 employees. Yet Title IX was not originally intended to address sexual harassment in schools. The term “sexual harassment” did not even exist at the law’s inception. In this talk, Reynolds uses the case of Title IX to understand the specific pathways through which the meaning of existing laws can change over time while the text of those laws remains the same. Triangulating multiple data sources across linked case studies of three universities, Reynolds argues that the mutual interpenetration of social networks across the educational and legal domains stimulated the shift, which exemplifies a more general process that she calls the endogenous repurposing of law. This concept clarifies how people within the organizations regulated by law not only creatively define the meaning of legal compliance: they also introduce innovative interpretations of law that stimulate broader cultural changes in norms of behavior and material shifts in the balance of rights and powers in society at large.

New Books, New Feminist Directions

Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel

Irus Braverman

May 3, 2023
Settling Nature draws on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork to document how the administration of nature in Palestine-Israel advances the Zionist project of Jewish settlement alongside the corresponding dispossession of non-Jews from this space. Highlighting the violent repercussions of Israel’s conservation regime, Braverman plants the seeds for possible reimagining's of nature that transcend the grip of the state’s settler ecologies. The book discussion also features Leila Harris as a commentator. Dr. Harris is a Professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and also in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.

Feminist Research Alliance

Small Gauge State: Gender, Jim Crow, and Government Films

Loren Pilcher

April 26, 2023
Dr. Loren Pilcher(They/Them), discusses the framework and a chapter excerpt from their ongoing project and monograph, “Small-Gauge State: Gender, Jim Crow, and Government Films."

Signature Lecture Series

Social Reproduction Lecture Series: Majority World Perspectives

Alessandra Mezzadri, Gabriella Nassif, Yige Dong, and Marion Werner

April 20, 2023
April 20 Panel Discussion about the Majority World Perspectives in Social Reproduction featuring Alessandra Mezzadri, Gabriella Nassif, Yige Dong, and Marion Werner - filmed at the Baldy Center.

Signature Lecture Series

Social Reproduction Lecture Series: The Crisis of Housing in Buffalo

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, India Walton, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, and Carrie Bramen

March 15, 2023
March 15 Panel Discussion about the Crisis of Housing in Buffalo featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, India Walton, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, and Carrie Bramen - filmed at the Center For the Arts Screening Room.

Feminist Research Alliance

Gender Disparities in the Management of Patients with Cardiac Arrhythmias

Dr. Anne B. Curtis

November 3, 2022
Video of the Feminist Research Alliance event: Gender Disparities in the Management of Patients with Cardiac Arrhythmias with Dr. Anne B. Curtis.

New Books, New Feminist Directions

Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism

Katja Praznik with Silvia Federici

September 23, 2022
Video of the New Books, New Feminist Directions event: Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism with Katja Praznik .

Signature Lecture Series

Social Reproduction Lecture Series: Patriarchy of the Wage

Silvia Federici

September 22, 2022
Video of the Signature Lecture Series event: Social Reproduction Theory with Silvia Federici.

New Books, New Feminist Directions

"I Am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics During & After Yugoslav Socialism

Jasmina Tumbas

April 8, 2022
Video of New Books, New Feminist Directions event with Jasmina Tumbas.

Guest Lecture

Transgender Identities in Poland: 1980-2020

Ludmila Janion

February 24, 2022
Video of a guest lecture with Ludmila Janion.

Feminist Research Alliance

On the Promises and Pitfalls of Using Computational Methods to Study Gender

Kenneth Joseph

February 9, 2022
Video of a guest lecture with Kenneth Joseph.

Feminist Research Alliance

Storytelling in Queer and Trans Video Games

Cody Mejeur

December 8, 2021
Video of Feminist Research Alliance event with Cody Mejeur.

Signature Lecture Series

The Magnification of Inequities During COVID-19 and Why it Matters for Science

Cassidy R. Sugimoto

November 4, 2021
Video of Signature Lecture event with Cassidy R. Sugimoto.

Partner Lecture Series

Women in STEM Cooperative Videos

An online discussion series.

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