Those in the London area over the next two months may want to check out this seven-week long series of artist residencies on the theme of art, action and activism at the Stanley Picker Gallery in Kingston. >>

Each spring in New York City, Left Forum gathers intellectuals and activists from around the world to address the burning issues of our times. The theme for 2010 is "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination." Find out more information, propose a panel, or register for the forum here. >>

December 1st 2009, Tuesday, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center, CUNY (34th Street & 5th Avenue)The CUNY Provost's Annual Symposium on Disciplinarity brings together scholars in the humanities who examine disciplinary boundaries, canonical divides, and methodological limitations and anxieties to introduce fresh and innovative thinking in the academy and beyond. The inaugural featured speaker is Hazel Carby, the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization at Yale University. Her books include Reconstructing Womanhood, Race Men,and Cultures in Babylon. Her current work in progress is Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post WWII Britain. For the inaugural lecture, respondents... >>

November 20, 2009 Friday4 to 6 PMDepartment of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU20 Cooper Square, 4th FloorPanel members:Event and panel host: Lisa Duggan (SCA, NYU)The Queer Child: Or Growing Sideways in the 20th Century (Series Q, Duke University Press) Kathryn Bond StocktonWith comment by:  Jose Muñoz (Performance Studies, NYU)Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal "gayness," in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of children emerge as this book illuminates the child queered by innocence, the child queered by color, the child queered by Freud, the child queered by money, and the grown homosexual metaphorically seen as a child (or as an animal),... >>

Save the date!OR Booksinvites you toPAINT THE TOWN ROUGE!A party to celebrate the publication ofGOING ROUGESarah Palin -- An American NightmareEdited by Richard Kim and Betsy ReedTuesday November 17th, 20097 till 10 pmThe Gates290 Eight Avenue(between 24th and 25th Streets)Chelsea NYCRSVP info@orbooks.com... >>

On Friday, November 13, 2009, Social Text celebrated its 30th anniversary and the recent publication of our 100th issue. More details here.

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