About the Center for Lesbian And
Gay Studies
(CLAGS),
web.gc.cuny.edu/clags
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) is the first and only
university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study
of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals. By sponsoring public programs
and conferences, offering fellowships to individual scholars, and functioning
as an indispensable conduit of information, CLAGS serves as a national center
for the promotion of scholarship that fosters social change. CLAGS makes its
home at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Sports Academic Research Panel
Are you an academic research sports, athletics, and society? Or
perhaps just interested on this frontier of research and development? This
panel will allow the top academics in this space to present their research and
have a discussion to further their goals. More details are forthcoming.
Speakers:
- L. Cole: The Politics of Nation and Sexuality in Sex Testing (Associate
Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Shari Dworkin : Iconography of the Muscular Female Athlete: Queering the
Mainstream
- Kathy Jamieson: Latina Sexualities: What's Sport Got to Do with It?
(Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- Alisa Solomon (moderator) CLAGS
If you would like to come, please consider seeking funding from your school
or research institution. Please
contact us if you seek this assistance.
