Arts of Trans, Gender Diverse & Two-Spirit Lives
5-7 April 2018
Day/Jour 1
Location/Lieu: Thompson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish St.
9:00-9:30 AM Registration
9:30-10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction: Alanna Thain, Director, IGSF
Blessing: Ben Geboe, School of Social Work, McGill
10:00-10:50 AM KEYNOTE
Chair: Mary Bunch, IGSF, McGill
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
Chair: Bobby Benedicto, IGSF & AHCS, McGill
“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
Chair: Jake Moore, McGill University
Making & Taking Space: Indigenous Art Futures Are Queer/Trans Fem af
Lindsay Nixon, McGill University
2:20-2:30 PM Coffee Break/Pause Café
2:30-3:30 PM ROUNDTABLE/ TABLE RONDE: Sound & Scene
Chair: Emma Flavian, McGill University
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
Alexandre Baril, University of Ottawa
Florence Paré, McGill University
Zack Marshall, McGill University
6:30-8:00 PM Closed Dinner for Invited Speakers
8:00 PM Contralto Screening & Discussion with Sarah Hennies
Chair: Juanita Marchand
Day/Jour 2
Location/Lieu: Thompson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish St.
10:00 -10:30 AM Breakfast
10:30 -11:20 AM ROUNDTABLE/TABLE RONDE: Trans Stories: Surviving Beyond Academia & the Health & Social Care Systems
Maxime Faddoul
D.T.
11:20-12:15 AM PANEL: Archives & Sketches
Chair: Heather Davis, IGSF & The New School
“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
12:15-1:30 PM Lunch/Dejeuner
1:30-2:30 PM PANEL: Sociable Forms
Chair: Emily Douglas, McGill University
“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
Chair: Zack Marshall
syrus marcus ware
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
Chair: Laura Horack, Carleton University
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
Chair: Nicole de Brabandere, IGSF
“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
Chair: Lisa Tom, McGill University
“#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
Chair: Alanna Thain, IGSF, McGill University
Transitioning Identities, Transitioning Institutions: Lessons from a Trans Femme of Colour Artist, Researcher & Community Worker
Kama La Mackerel
7:30 PM Closing Party: Alive & Well Magazine Release and Cabaret
Release of Art/iculation magazine, the “Alive & Well” issue edited by Sofia Misenheimer & Vincent Mousseau
Cabaret organized by Miami Minx and hosted by Connie Lingua
Location/Lieu: M Bar, 1245 St-André