The RSA awards the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize annually for the best book in Renaissance studies. The recipients of the shared Gordan Prize for 2026 are literary scholar Abdulhamit Arvas, for Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity (Duke University Press, 2025).
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CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a Queer-Class Relations conference April 17-18, 2026. Proposals are due by September 1, 2025. Successful applicants will be required to register by November 15, 2025.
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of CLAGS’ founding in 1986 and its groundbreaking Homo/Economics conference in 1994, this conference marks a pivotal moment for thinking about queer-class relations. Working in the tradition of thinkers such as Cathy Cohen, Lee Badgett, and Eli Clare–and in memory of our dear friends Urvashi Vaid, Jeffrey Escoffier, and Amber Hollibaugh–the conference invites participants to explore the connections between queer lives and the class experiences that are also shaped by race, caste, disability, and gender. Premised on...
The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
