Please join us for 5 lectures offered as part of the Humanities lab directed by Cole Rizki (Spanish) and David Getsy (Art)!
Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities
A lecture and seminar series sponsored by the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures at the University of Virginia
(co-sponsored by QVA)
February 20th, 2023
6.30pm, Wilson Hall 142, with livestream and simultaneous Spanish interpretation. Register for the livestream here.
“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
Interpreters: Esperanza Gorriz Jarque and David Florez-Murillo
March 2nd, 2023
6.30pm, Wilson Hall 142, with livestream and simultaneous Spanish interpretation. Register for the livestream here.
“A Global History of Trans Panic”
Jules Gill-Peterson, Johns Hopkins University, author of Histories of the Transgender Child
Interpreters: María Esparza Rodríguez and Esperanza Gorriz Jarque
(hosted by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
March 23, 2023
5.00pm via Zoom only [note different time; no Spanish interpretation]. Register for the livestream here.
"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
(co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
March 30, 2023
6.30pm, Wilson Hall 142, with livestream and simultaneous Spanish interpretation. Register for the livestream here.
Marcia Ochoa, University of California at Santa Cruz, author of Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
(title TBA)
Interpreters: María Esparza Rodríguez and Esperanza Gorriz Jarque
April 6, 2023
6.30pm, Wilson Hall 142, with livestream and simultaneous Spanish interpretation. Register for the livestream here.
"Trans Studies for Grim Times"
Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
Interpreters: María Esparza Rodríguez and Esperanza Gorriz Jarque
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 seminar “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.