CONF 02.04.2018

Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse & Two-Spirit Lives (Montreal, 5-7 Apr 18)

Montréal, 05.–07.04.2018

Ayanna Dozier

Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse & Two-Spirit Lives

Day/Jour 1
Location/Lieu
Thompson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish St.

9:00-9:30 AM
Registration

9:30-10:00 AM
Welcome, Land acknowledgement and blessing

10:00-10:50 AM
KEYNOTE: The Haunting Absence of Trans People in Academia: Breaking the Cis-Temic Glass Ceiling
Alexandre Baril
University of Ottawa

11:00-12:15 PM
PANEL: Poetic Practices
“Bones of Iron: Spirits, Shaman Sickness, & the Numinosity of Gender Crossing”
Hannah Fons, Adelphi University
“Made Up of the Component Catastrophes: Arts Production, Transgender Body Making, & the Necropolitics of Transition”
Zefyr Lisowski, Hunter College

12:15-1:30 PM
Lunch/Dejeuner

1:30-2:20 PM
KEYNOTE: Making & Taking Space: Indigenous Art Futures Are Queer/Trans Fem af
Lindsey Nixon

2:20-2:30 PM
Coffee Break/Pause Café

2:30-3:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE/ TABLE RONDE: Sound & Scene: Music, Nightlife, & Everyday Life
Ellise Barbara
“Hip Hop & Trans Activism”
Lucas Charlie Rose

3:30-3:45 PM
Coffee Break/Pause Café

3:45-5:00 PM
ROUNDTABLE/TABLE RONDE: Transitioning Institutions
Trish Salah, Queens University
Alexandre Baril, University of Ottawa
Florence Paré, McGill University
Zack Marshall, McGill University

6:30-8:00 PM
Closed Dinner for Invited Speakers
8:00PM
Contralto Screening & Discussion with Sarah Hennies

Day/Jour 2
Location/Lieu
Thompson House, 3650 McTavish St.

PANEL: Archives & Sketches
9:30-10:30 AM
“recombinant: tracing a speculative poetics”
Ching-In Chen, Sam Houston State University
“Sketches of Life: Cute & Paste Practices of Aesthetic Resistance in Tranvestia Magazine”
Melina Moore, The Graduate Center, CUNY

10:30-11:20 AM
ROUNDTABLE/TABLE RONDE: Trans Stories: Surviving Beyond Academia & the Health & Social Care Systems
Maxime Faddoul
D.T

11:20-11:30 AM
Coffee Break/Pause Café

11:30-12:30 PM
KEYNOTE: Desire’s B-Side: Erasure, Constraint, Poesis
Trish Salah, Queens University

12:30-1:30 PM
Lunch/Dejeuner

1:30-2:30 PM
PANEL: Sociable Forms
“A Gender Free Future? Re-fashioning Virtual Spaces through Queer Aesthetic & Materialising a Post-Gender World”
Santa Sorrenti, University of Oxford
“Two Spirits, Identity & Diversity”
Ben Geboe, McGill University

2:45-3:00 PM
Coffee Break/Pause Café

3:00-4:00 PM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
syrus marcus ware

Location/Lieu
Room 406 Thompson House, 3650 McTavish St.
4:00-7:00 PM
Tea for T—Trans in the Academy Dinner & Art Workshop
Closed Event for trans, gender-diverse, & two-spirit participants
co-hosted by McGill's Social Equity & Diversity Education Office (SEDE)

Day/Jour 3
Location/Lieu
Leacock 232 (McGill University, 852 Sherbrooke Ouest)

10:00-11:00 AM
KEYNOTE: The Operating Value for Trans & Gender Variance: A Proposal for Contextualizing Trans* Aesthetics
Eliza Steinbock

11:00-11:30 AM
Coffee Break/Pause Café

11:30-12:30 PM
PANEL: The Touch of History
“Sex Time Machine”
Julian Carter, California College of the Arts
“Migrating Khusra”
Sajdeep Soomal, University of Toronto

12:30-1:30 PM
Lunch/Dejeuner

1:30-2:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE: Care for Subjects
JJ Levine
Fallon Simard

2:30-3:30 PM
PANEL: Access, Art, Activism
“#No Thanks Countering the Biomedical Narrative of Trans Identities with Art”
Cara Tierney, Carleton University
“The Venerated Liminal: Transness, Performance Art, & the Transformation of Space”
Johnny Forever Nawracaj, artist

3:30-3:45 PM
Coffee Break/Pause Café

3:45-5:00 PM
KEYNOTE: Transitioning Identities, Transitioning Institutions: Lessons from a Trans Femme of Colour Artist, Researcher & Community Worker
Kama La Mackerel

Location/Lieu
7:30PM
M Bar 1245 St-André
Closing Party & Cabaret with Fabian Moreno
Art/iculations Magazine Launch “Alive & Well” edited by Sofia Misenheimer & Vincent Mousseau

Quellennachweis:
CONF: Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse & Two-Spirit Lives (Montreal, 5-7 Apr 18). In: ArtHist.net, 02.04.2018. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/17758>.

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