ENG / ESP
A lecture and seminar series sponsored by the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures at the University of Virginia
Monday February 20th, 2023
“Where Do My Hips Go Now? Non-binary Partnerings On and Off the Ice”
Erica Rand, Bates College, author of The Small Book of Hip Checks: on Queer Gender, Race, and Writing
6.30pm, Wilson Hall 142, with livestream and simultaneous Spanish interpretation by Esperanza Gorriz Jarque and David Florez-Murillo
Register in advance for the webinar at this link.
(co-hosted by QVA)
Thursday March 2nd, 2023
“A Global History of Trans Panic”
Jules Gill-Peterson, Johns Hopkins University, author of Histories of the Transgender Child
6.30pm, Wilson Hall 142, with livestream and simultaneous Spanish interpretation by María Esparza Rodríguez and Esperanza Gorriz Jarque
Register in advance for the webinar at this link.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
"Representing Ourselves into Existence: Tracing the History of Trans Filmmaking in the United States and Canada"
Laura Horak, Carleton University, author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908–1934
5.00pm via Zoom only [note different time; no Spanish interpretation]
Register in advance for the webinar at this link.
(hosted by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
Thursday, March 30, 2023
"Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela"
Marcia Ochoa, University of California at Santa Cruz, author of Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela, and Gerszten Family Visit Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, UVA
6.30pm, Wilson Hall 142, in Spanish, with livestream and simultaneous English interpretation by María Esparza Rodríguez and Esperanza Gorriz Jarque
Register in advance for the webinar at this link.
(hosted by the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese as the Gerszten Family Visiting Professor Lecture)
Thursday, April 6, 2023
"Trans Studies for Grim Times"
Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practice
6.30pm, DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS LECTURE WILL ONLY BE PRESENTED VIA LIVESTREAM. (with simultaneous Spanish interpretation by María Esparza Rodríguez and Esperanza Gorriz Jarque)
Please follow the webinar registration link.
Register in advance for the webinar at this link.
The lecture series is organized by David J. Getsy (Department of Art) and Cole Rizki (Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) as part of a 2022–23 workgroup of the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. In conjunction with the lecture series, visiting scholars will also engage with students in David Getsy’s graduate seminar “Transgender Methods for Art & Performance History” (Ph.D. Program in Art and Architectural History) and Cole Rizki’s undergraduate course “Transgender Studies in the Américas” (Dept of Women, Gender, and Sexuality).
With additional support from the University of Virginia's Department of Art, the Department of Spanish Italian and Portuguese, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, QVA, the Americas Center/Centro de las Américas, and the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Interpretation provided by María Esparza Rodríguez, Esperanza Gorriz Jarque y David Florez-Murillo of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.