Event: 'Opening "Gender, Sexuality, And Urban Spaces" Conference, Cambridge MA' Print
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Date: Friday, March 11, 2011 At 05:00 pm
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Hosted by the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies 

Friday 3/11
Keynote address “Queering Identity: The Tyranny of Gendered Planning ” by Petra Doan - Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Master's International Program, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University

Saturday, 3/12
A DAY OF GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS, 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Panels, poster sessions, and presentations by graduate students from around the globe.

Panel topics include, but are not limited to: 
- Planning for Gender: Perspectives on Urban Development
- Sex in the City: Reclaiming the Public Stage
- Living in the Margins: Othered Lifestyles/Hidden Histories
- Transformational Armatures: The Performance of Gender as/in Architecture
- Politics, Class, and Identity in the Queered City

Sunday, 3/13
Closing Keynote Panel “Making it Real: Bridging Theory and Practice”
A keynote panel by:
Gia Barboza - Assistant Professor, African American Studies, Northeastern University 
Sharon Reilly - Executive Director, The Women's Lunch Place, Boston 
Karen Tei Yamashita - Professor, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz 

Location: MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge