The first symposium on the topic of trans cinema studies takes place in conjunction with the Netherlands Transgender Film Festival (20-24 May 2009 at de Balie Cultural Center). In celebration of our 5th bi-annual festival, we invite you to attend a full day of scholarly discussion. We imagine this symposium to reflect on trans issues as well as wider academic concerns such as the depiction of cross-cultural genders and sexualities, methodology in film studies, and inter-/trans-disciplinarity.
University of Amsterdam
Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, room 420
10:00am - 6:00pm
To map out the concerns of "trans cinema studies," we have invited leading scholars in this growing field:
Dr. Susan Stryker (Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Indiana University) will present her groundbreaking work on Christine Jorgenson, a transsexual celebrity and filmmaker.
Dr. Helen Hok-Sze Leung (Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University) will discuss new methodologies relevant to both gender and film studies for tracking the topography of "transgender" emergence, specifically in Queer Asian cinema.
Dr. Gayle Salamon (Assistant Professor of English, Princeton University), an astute researcher on transgender embodiment, feminist theory, and culture will lead the closing plenary.
In addition, scholars and professionals from the field will give presentations that focus on sexual, utopian, and fundamentalist representation as well as the politics of reviews, problems of narrativity, and the potential of interdisciplinarity. We hope to see you there!
Convened by drs Eliza Steinbock
ASCA Project "Theorizing Bodies and Genders: Interdisciplinarity in Action"
Official program at http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca/news.cfm
