Conferences
Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies
A conference for faculty, academic administrators, student life professionals, chaplains, faculty development specialists, and campus counselors
February 25–28, 2010
Hotel Nikko, San Francisco
www.expandingthecircle.com
expandingthecircle@ciis.edu
In order to advance pluralism, acknowledge a scholarly area of investigation, and deepen learning in higher education, we need to expand our circle of inclusion and broaden our definition of diversity by advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) studies.
In this conference, we will not only address a variety of factors that have contributed to excluding LGBTQ issues from academic study and student life; but we will also explore strategies to make our campuses more inclusive for all students.
In five preconference workshops and 35 concurrent interactive sessions, we will examine strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.
This will be among the first national conferences in higher education to focus on LGBTQ concerns by seeking connections across academic and student affairs, across diversities, across disciplines, and across LGBTQ subfields.
Join us in dialogue to create greater inclusion for all members of our campus communities as well as enrich the quality of education and scholarship in higher education.
Queer Bodies in Psychotherapy Conference
October 17-19, 2008
Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco
Queer Bodies in Psychotherapy calls attention to queer sexualities, identities, and practices that are inadequately addressed in both psychodynamic and somatic psychologies.
The Somatic Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral Studies organized the groundbreaking Queer Bodies in Psychotherapy Conference as part of its ongoing commitment to exploring issues of embodied difference, marginalization, and the sociocultural understandings of somatic formation.
The conference endeavored to question and explore ideas concerning how queer sexualities, identities, and lifestyles can be imagined, held, facilitated, and explored in various educational and therapeutic contexts.
At the event, LGBTQI and straight therapists, queer theorists, somatic therapists and practitioners, members of various queer communities, scholars, activists, educators, and students surfaced questions, helped develop theories, shared case examples, and explored best practices in this emerging field.
The conference featured more than 20 workshops and lectures, including transgender educator and attorney Dylan Vade on navigating the expanding galaxy of gender identities and bodies; SJ Kahn on potential biases to impacting effective treatment of couples living in nontraditional partnerships and families; Vernon Rosario, PhD, MD, on queer Latino teens negotiating sexuality, culture, and poverty; Zach Finley, MA (SOM) '08 on gay male bodies, shame, and addiction.
Several CIIS program chairs and faculty members, including Alzak Amlani (on familial and cultural constraints for Middle-Eastern and South Asian Americans), Matthew Bronson, Ian Grand, Keiko Lane, Shoshana Simons, and Steven Tierney presented at the conference.
Additionally, there were workshops on queer activisms, queer conception and nonviolent parenting, psychodynamic theory of S/M, a performance by internationally acclaimed writer and performance artist Tim Miller, and a keynote address by poet and activist Jewelle Gomez.
The conference, hosted by CIIS Public Programs, was co-sponsored by Community United Against Violence (CUAV) , Women's Therapy Center, Jewish Mosaic (The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity), Good Vibrations, The Pacific Center, New Leaf: Services For Our Community, and The Psychotherapy Institute.
