Category Archives: Talks

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  An Invitation from the University of Groningen

  Posted on March 6, 2013 by Diane in Book Launch Dates, News and Events, Talks, Thoughts

  International Women’s Day is coming up and I’ve been invited to give the Aletta Jacobs lecture at the Stadium Generale, University of Groningen on March 7.  And who is Aletta Jacobs?  you might ask (as I did).  ”She was the first female student (in 1871) to enrol in one of the universities in the Netherlands, the Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen and the first female [...]

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  what happened?

  Posted on March 6, 2013 by Diane in News and Events, Talks

  I gave a talk on Performing Identities and Objects at Wimbledon College of Art on February 27.  It was Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Art Colleges Research Day and the other speakers were Jane Collins and Carol Tulloch.  You shoulda been there!!

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  sex n drag n rock n role in FRANCE

  Posted on November 27, 2012 by Diane in News and Events, Talks

  Hello mes amis,  I shall be giving a talk, Sex n Drag n Rock n Role and performance, as part of GENDER LAB at Emmetrop, Bourges  on November 29 at 19.30h and it is libre which means free to enter folks! The programme is curated by the philosopher/artist extraordinaire Béatriz Préciado and will include a workshop [...]

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  Talk at Freie Universitaet, Berlin

  Posted on November 21, 2012 by Diane in News and Events, Talks

   

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  WOMEN AT WORK at UDK Berlin

  Posted on November 20, 2012 by Diane in News and Events, Talks

  I am very honored to be included in the Women at Work series of talks at the Universitaet Deutsche Kuenst  on November 21, 2012 at 15h  Hardenbergstraße 33, Room 110.  I look forward to seeing you there!!   × Here is the blurb: WOMEN AT WORK Women at Work is a series of lectures and workshops inviting [...]

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  MAN FOR A DAY film – Dutch Premiere

  Posted on June 11, 2012 by Diane in News and Events, Talks

  Drift Festival Utrecht juni 2012 Gender en sex tegen de stroom in http://dianetorr.com/2012/02/man-for-a-day-film/ Get a room! Man for a day – film and debate Date: June 22 When: 20.00 – 23.00 Where: Mary K arthotel How much: 7 euro (reservations via reservering@drift-utrecht.nl) Drag King pioneer and legendary performance artist Diane Torr is our special guest [...]

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  Bawdy Burns

  Posted on May 31, 2012 by Diane in News and Events, Talks

  I will be appearing at the Burns an’ a’ that Festival 2012 Burns Brightly: Roofless Programme – May/June 2012 With a Café Talk on the Bawdy Poems of Robert Burns, referencing how he got there… with a selection of poems from the much-censored anthology, The Merry Muses of Caledonia, and where are they now? at Su Casa Coffee House, Lorne Arcade, 115 High St, Ayr KA7 1QL Saturday 2nd June 2012 [...]

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  25 YEARS OF SEX AND DRAG TALK AT CSC

  Posted on May 10, 2012 by Diane in Talks

  Annie Sprinkle hosts her old friend Diane Torr, whose history as a performance artist, workshop leader and activist stretches back to the 1970s and through many contexts, from performative to activist, academic to street. In the 1970s Diane Torr studied and explored new dance and the work of Susan Sontag, Yvonne Rainer, and John Cage, [...]

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  Center for Sexual Culture, San Francisco talk

  Posted on May 10, 2012 by Diane in News and Events, Talks

  25 Years of Sex and Drag Sunday, May 13, 5pm At the Center for Sex & Culture – 1349 Mission btw 9th and 10th $5-25 sliding scale, NOTAFLOF

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  GO WEST, YOUNG WOMAN

  Posted on May 3, 2012 by Diane in Book Launch Dates, News and Events, Talks

   Diane Torr @ Stanford University, Palo Alto California “25 Years of Sex and Drag” May 9th, 7:00 p.m., LGBT Center Film Screening Venus Boyz and Dinner   May 10th, 4:15 p.m., SERRA House Book Talk, “25 Years of Sex and Drag” NEW BOOK, Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance, AVAILABLE FOR SALE [...]

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