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Transgender Day of Remembrance: Keynote by Chase Joynt & Kristen Schilt
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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Registration for this program will be open until 5:05pm on November 10th. Captioning will be available.
The Agnes Project
A sociologist and a media-maker walk into an archive...
Much like Freud’s classic studies of Dora and the Wolf Man, Harold Garfinkel’s 1967 case study of Agnes has captured the imagination of social psychologists, feminist social scientists, queer theorists, and transgender studies scholars alike. Drawing on newly discovered archival materials, project collaborators Kristen Schilt and Chase Joynt bring Garfinkel’s interviews with Agnes and her contemporaries back into the historical context of the emerging disciplines of sex and gender in the late 1950s. Thinking broadly about contexts of trans representation across disciplines, the pair will also present a portion of their experimental documentary, Framing Agnes.
Chase Joynt is a moving-image artist and writer whose films have won jury and audience awards internationally. His latest short film, Framing Agnes, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, won the Audience Award at Outfest in Los Angeles, and is being developed into a feature film with support from Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch program. Awarded the EP Canada/Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist, Joynt’s first book You Only Live Twice (co-authored with Mike Hoolboom) was a 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist and named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail and CBC. Joynt is currently an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Victoria.
Kristen Schilt is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, where she serves as the current faculty director for the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and the co-editor of Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology (University of California Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in venues such as Gender & Society, the Annual Review of Sociology, and the Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Together, Chase and Kristen have been invited to present their work at Columbia University, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Their book-in-progress, Conceptualizing Agnes, disrupts dominant legacies of medical expertise about transgender identities and is under contract with Duke University Press.