[Tsa] Fwd:Trans-Conference at Wesleyan

[Kassandra I Neiss]

 Justin (F2 resident) sent me the attached email about a trans-conference Oct. 2
at Wesleyan University. Who is interested in going? we can get a van to go!

Meeting tomorrow Thursday 17 in FPH 108 @ 8:00pm!! Open meeting!

:)
Kasey

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    Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:38:58 -0400
    From: Jutta Sperling <jsperling at hampshire.edu>
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 Subject: Trans-Conference at Wesleyan
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Hi students,

I received this email over a mailing list.  I thought the conference might be of
interest to you.

best

Jutta


Dear Colleagues,
Please join us for our TRANSforming Institutions Symposium, sponsored by the
Wesleyan Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies Programs,
with support from the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life.

TRANSforming Institutions Symposium: Transgender Studies, Rights, and Health.

Friday, October 2, 2-4pm
Russell House, Wesleyan University
318 High St, Middletown, CT

“Incarcerating Gender: Doing Time under the Freeze Frame Policy”
Paisley Currah
Associate Professor of Political Science
Brooklyn College of The City University of New York

“The Transgender Demographic Imaginary in U.S. Public Health”
Ben Singer
Ph.D. Candidate in English
Rutgers University

Susan Stryker (respondent)
Associate Professor of Gender Studies
Indiana University

Reception to follow

Thursday, October 1st, 8:00pm
Shanklin Hall 107, Wesleyan University
237 Church St, Middletown, CT

Screening of Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman's Emmy award-winning
film: “Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria” (2005)

More information on the Breakfast Pedagogical Workshop (teaching Trans- Studies
from multiple disciplinary perspectives, led by Susan Stryker) -- Friday, Oct.
2 from 10-11:30am -- will follow.

For further information, please contact Natasha Korda (nkorda at wesleyan.edu) or
Margot Weiss (mdweiss at wesleyan.edu)

(poster attached)


Margot Weiss
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology
Wesleyan University
Center for the Americas, 255 High Street, Room 206
Middletown, CT 06459
Office: 860-685-5754
http://mdweiss.faculty.wesleyan.edu/


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