Programming
As part of my commitment to growing Latin American and Latinx Trans Studies at the institutional and field-level, I have organized a variety of trans studies lecture series, talks, and other programming through numerous grants to support engagement with trans studies at the University of Virginia and beyond. This has included co-organizing the three-part "Paige-Barbour Trans Care Lecture Series" (2023-2024) with colleagues in the Departments of American Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and English. In 2022-2023, I also co-organized with David Getsy (Art) the five-talk lecture series "Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities." In addition to these lecture series that brought some of the most established and renowned trans studies scholars to campus, I have also organized numerous annual departmental endowed lectures.
Across all series and lectures, I am committed to bilingual access and have consistently coordinated and sought funds for live simultaneous interpretation into Spanish for all scheduled events. Interpretation immediately increases access to programming that has otherwise largely remained in English. From this commitment to providing interpretation, scholars and activists from across the hemisphere can tune in using Spanish-language interpretation.
Trans Studies Lecture Series (2023-2024)
Paige-Barbour Trans Care Lecture Series
This series is co-organized with the Departments of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, American Studies, and English at the University of Virginia.
Trans Studies Lecture Series (2022-2023)
Sponsored by competitve grant funding from the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures, this five-part lecture series (2022-2023) was organized by Cole Rizki and David J. Getsy (Department of Art). The grant also supported a faculty working group led by Rizki and Getsy at the University of Virginia.
In conjunction with the lecture series, visiting scholars also engaged with students in Cole Rizki’s undergraduate course “Transgender Studies in the Américas” (Dept of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) and David Getsy’s graduate seminar “Transgender Methods for Art & Performance History” (Dept of Art and Architectural History).
We sought and were awarded 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.
“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 with livestream and simultaneous Spanish interpretation by Esperanza Gorriz Jarque and David Florez-Murillo
“A Global History of Trans Panic”
Jules Gill-Peterson, Johns Hopkins University, author of Histories of the Transgender Child
with livestream and simultaneous Spanish interpretation by María Esparza Rodríguez and Esperanza Gorriz Jarque
"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 (hosted by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
"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, with livestream and simultaneous English interpretation by María Esparza Rodríguez and Esperanza Gorriz Jarque
(hosted by the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese as the Gerszten Family Visiting Professor Lecture)
"Trans Studies for Grim Times"
Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practice
Gerszten Family Endowed Lecture (2023)
Presenting the 2023 Gerszten Family visiting professor and invited speaker in global histories & transgender studies in the humanities: Marcia Ochoa
The 2023 Gerszten lecture was held in collaboration with the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, thanks to the work of professors Cole Rizki (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) and David Getsy (Art). This talk forms part of the series, “Global Histories & Transgender Studies in the Humanities/Historias globales y estudios trans en las humanidades.”
Marcia Ochoa (she/they) is Associate Professor of Performance, Play & Design and Provost of Oakes College at the University of California Santa Cruz. They are an anthropologist specializing in the ethnography of media and their first book is on the accomplishment of femininity among beauty pageant contestants (misses) and transgender women (transformistas) in Venezuela.
Ochoa’s work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America, and the place of these subjects in the nation. They are a co-founder of El/La Para TransLatinas in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA, a social justice organization that promotes transgender Latina participation and reflects the style and grace of translatina survival. Ochoa is co-editor ex-oficio of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
Gerszten Family Endowed Lecture (2022)
“Atacama: An Integrated Research Practice”
by Macarena Gómez-Barris Gerszten Family Lecture
Macarena Gómez-Barris
Macarena Gómez-Barris is the Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
In this talk, Gómez-Barris reflects on how writing, research, and creative practice come together as a palimpsest of approaches in relation to the particular site of her analysis, the Atacama. Given the colonial anthropocene, and context of ongoing environmental damage, ruin, and extractivism, how might we think about the role of the human and nonhuman in the desert?
Events
Archiving Trans Memory in the Américas //
Archivando la memoria trans en las Américas
Invited Class Talks
Javier Fernández Galeano, Francisco Galarte, Fernanda Carvajal, Cynthia Delgado, David Tenorio, Daniel Coleman, Martín de Mauro Rucovsky, Rocío Pichon-Rivière, Davy Knittle, Marlene Wayar, Naty Menstrual, Carina Sama, Gaita Nihil, Caro Alamino, Alex Zani, and Cristián Prieto.