Programming
Lecture Series
This series is sponsored by the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures at the
University of Virginia.
This lecture series is organized by
Cole Rizki (Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) and David J. Getsy (Department of Art) 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 course “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.
“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
Lecture Series
Presenting the 2023 Gerszten Family visiting professor and invited speaker in global histories & transgender studies in the humanities: Marcia Ochoa
This year's Gerszten lecture is being 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.
Lecture Series
“Atacama: An Integrated Research Practice”
by Macarena Gómez-Barris Gerszten Family Lecture
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?