Is pleased to announce a two guest lectures by

Prof. Suzanna Danuta Walters (Gender Studies, Indiana University)

(1) "Homos R Us: Queerness and the Dilemmas of Integration"*

*Friday, April 17, 15.00*

Al. Niepodległości 22, room 317

(this lecture opens the symposium *Post-Race? Post-Gender?*

*The Politics of Identity in Contemporary United States)*

(2) "The End of Coming Out"

*Saturday, April 18, 2009, 14.00*

Al. Niepodległości 22, room 310

*Suzanna Danuta Walters* is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University. Her work examines questions of gender, sexuality, family, and the place of (post)feminism in popular culture. She is the author of /All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America/ (University of Chicago Press, 2001) as well as two earlier books: /Material Girls: making sense of feminist cultural theory /and/ Lives Together/Worlds Apart: mothers and daughters in popular culture/. In /All the Rage/ she looks at the rise of gay visibility in American culture and politics during the last 15 years, raising questions about the politics of this development. The book was the subject of much debate in the media and a finalist for, among others, the Lambda Literary Award.*