The Right Wing Agency and the Anti-LGBTQ Movement
Jeffrey Longhofer, PhD, LCSW
Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Lecture
DATE: Thursday, March 1, 2012
TIME: 6:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
PLACE
: Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Katherine Lower Conference Rm., 300 Airdale Rd., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
RSVP: sw-rsvp@brynmawr.edu or call 610.520.2601
In recent years, the right has become a powerful force in anti-gay social movement activity. In this presentation, Jeffrey Longhofer, Associate Professor of Social Work, Rutgers University, will consider an anti-gay activity as a social movement, not as isolated activities of political parties or interest groups. He will examine the key differences between conservative and extreme right-wing anti-gay movements and the differentiating ideologies and characteristics of these movements and the contextual factors that influence rightist anti-gay mobilization and strategies. He will conclude with comments on how to organize when the right comes to town.
Jeffrey Longhofer, Ph.D., LCSW, is an Associate Professor of social work at Rutgers University. He holds graduate degrees in anthropology and social work. After finishing his degree in social work in 2002, he completed four years of postgraduate study in child development and psychoanalysis and six years of clinical training in adult psychoanalysis. He is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and applied anthropologist whose research focuses on mental health practice, mental health case management, psychiatric medication, and the roles that stigma and shame play in the social and psychological dynamics of practitioner/patient interactions. He is presently working on psychiatric medication use among youth in systems of state care. His career has been shaped by a concern for developing and disseminating accurate and experience-near analyses of human experience with the creative use of research methods from the allied disciplines of anthropology, social work, and psychoanalysis. Dr. Longhofer recently finished a book with his partner and coauthor, Jerry Floersch, Rutgers SSW faculty member, On Having and Being a Case Manager: A Relational Method for Recovery, Columbia University Press (2010). His second book, with Oxford University Press (release date, September 2012), Qualitative Methods for Practice: Open Systems Research,” offers an argument for why qualitative methods should be used to study practice in open systems (with Jerry Floersch and Janet Hoy). His third book, under contract with Palgrave MacMillan (2013), Key Concepts in Psychodynamic Practice. And his current book, in preparation, Shame Dynamics in the Clinical Process, will address the cultural and psychological dynamics of shame in the clinical process, from engagement to termination. He has served as the associate editor for the Society for Applied Anthropology journal, Human Organization, and editor of the American Anthropological Association journal, Culture and Agriculture. During the 1980s and 1990s Dr. Longhofer worked for Leonard Zeskind (Center for Democratic Renewal) conducting action research on anti-LGBT social movements. He’s published on this subject, presented many papers, and is currently preparing a paper for publication.
This lecture offers two continuing education credits (CEUs) for professional social workers. CEU applications will be made available and a $15.00 processing fee will be due at the event.
Bryn Mawr College GSSWSR | 300 Airdale Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 | 610.520.2600
