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This is a two-day event.
Day 1: April 19th | Day 2: April 20th
View the full conference program here.
The Gender and Sexuality Studies Institute at The New School invites you to join us for our annual convening, in person at The New School, in New York City. This year, we bring together scholars, students, activists, artists and performers for a two-day multimodal event that seeks to grapple with matters of belonging. The notion of belonging carries many connotations. Typically defined as "a subjective feeling of deep connection with social groups, physical places, and individual and collective experiences" (Allan et al., 2021), it is not only profoundly important to our sense of self, social connectedness and psychological wellbeing, but is also a concept that has been embraced by communities and institutions in complex ways.
In this two day convening we unpack the theme belonging by asking: How does belonging interact with power, representation, and narratives of gender, race, sexuality, class, geographic location, and dis/ability? What does it mean to belong? Who belongs where and why? How can performative acts of promoting belonging be disrupted and reworked? Within this call, we revisit a political commitment to “making a world where all people can live fully and well; where everyone can belong” (hooks, 2008). How can we grapple with this call today?
Presented by The Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute at the New School for Social Research, Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students, The SexTech Lab, and the Schools of Public Engagement, sponsored by Global Studies.
Effective February 23, 2023, event guests and/or visitors to the New School are no longer required to provide proof of up-to-date vaccination or negative result from a PCR test and do not need to use the CLEAR app to present their vaccination status.
Wearing a mask is recommended but not required on campus.
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Sedef Ozoguz (PhD) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School. Her research focuses on freedoms denied and freedoms desired in relation to gender and sexuality in non-Western communities. She has published on sexual and reproductive rights, sex education in the US and the impact of sexual empowerment discourses on immigrating women. She has been rewarded the Dissertation Fellowship and the Art Science Connect Award for her thesis on the liberation of women in Turkey, recognized for her contribution to both arts and sciences through multidisciplinary research design. Sedef is committed to public scholarship and has been involved in making gender and sexuality research accessible through her work at SexGenLab at Hunter College in New York, as well as through Wild Women of Anatolia, a documentary project about women’s freedom dreams in Turkey.
Arjahn Cox is a Black, non-binary fashion designer based in New York. They design with their identities in mind with the hope of enriching the clothing options for people who do not fit the white, cisgender standard of fashion. With their work Arjahn hopes to de-gender fashion, expand ideas of wearability, and move fashion into a consciously and holistically inclusive space. Arjahn is a 2023 Fashion Design Graduate from Parsons School of Design with a minor in Gender Studies from The New School. Also Arjahn is a recipient of the 2022 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Häagen-Dazs Scholarship Award.
