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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 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.
The New School’s Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students reflects the goal of lifelong higher learning articulated by the founders of The New School in 1919. In 1943, The New School began offering a bachelor's degree program for adults to address the educational needs of returning WWII veterans. Today, we continue to dedicate ourselves to that mission in a program that offers exceptional services and an innovative curriculum to nearly 1,000 adult students in New York City and online.
Bo Petersen has worked as a professional actor in South Africa for more than 40 years, working on stage, TV and film. She has also made a name for herself as a director. Bo has a deep commitment to nurturing and developing original South African theatre, working with undiscovered talent and well-established actors.
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Bo Petersen has worked as a professional actor in South Africa for more than 40 years, working on stage, TV and film. She has also made a name for herself as a director. Bo has a deep commitment to nurturing and developing original South African theatre, working with undiscovered talent and well-established actors. Her own acting trajectory has been firmly based in innovative and challenging productions. She has established a successful supplementary career as a dialogue and drama coach for the feature film and advertising industry, working with among others, Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Ryan Reynolds and William Hurt. Bo currently resides in the USA where she continues to write, direct and perform.
Madi Day is a trans Murri raised up on Dharug Country (so-called Sydney, Australia). Their work is dedicated to justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQIA+ communities, who continue to resist European impositions on their land and lives. Madi is at the Women and Gender Studies department at Southern Connecticut State University undertaking a Fulbright where they will complete their PhD on settler colonialism, gender and heterosexuality. At home, Madi enjoys doing homework and driving lessons with young people in their community, camping and swimming in the Pacific Ocean.
