FW: Trans Studies + Susan's Talk, Jan. 31

[Dina Georgis]

FYI

Announcing two events in trans studies organized by the Centre for the Study of the UnitedStates (CSUS), University of Toronto
Roundtable: Trans Studies: State of the Field
Tuesday, January 31, 10 am-12 noon. Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility Munk School of Global Affairs
Chair: Elspeth Brown, Director, American Studies Program and Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto
Speakers: Sheila Cavanagh, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, and Coordinator of the School of Women’s Studies and the Sexuality Studies Program, York University; Nick Matte, Ph.D. candidate in History, and Sessional Faculty, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto; Bobby Noble, Associate Professor, cross-appointed to the Departments of English and Sexuality Studies, York University; Susan Stryker, Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona.

To register for this event, please go to: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/Events.aspx <http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/Events.aspx>

Organized by the Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto, and co-sponsored by the History Department, York University; Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, and Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto
And later the same day…..
Tuesday, January 31, 4-6 pm
Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
SUSAN STRYKER “Cross-Dressing for Empire: Embodying White Masculinity Through Performance in San Francisco’s Bohemian Club, 1870s-1920s”
Organized by the Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) and co-sponsored by the History Department, York University; Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, and Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto


Susan Stryker is Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, at the University of Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. in United States History at U.C. Berkeley in 1992, held a post-doctoral fellowship in Sexuality Studies at Stanford University, and has been a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, U.C.-Santa Cruz, Simon Fraser University, and Macquarie University. She has written widely on queer and transgender topics, and co-edited the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Transgender Studies Reader. Her Emmy Award-winning film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, documents an episode of transgender collective resistance topolice oppression in 1966. She is currently researching cross-dressing theatricals in San Francisco’s all-male Bohemian Club, and working on a new film about 1950s transsexual celebrity Christine Jorgensen, and continuing to promote the development of transgender studies.
To register for this event, please go to: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/Events.aspx <http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/Events.aspx>


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