Visit the conference website: www.ExpandingtheCircle.com.
Register by October 25 to take advantage of our early registration rate.

This conference (to be held in San Francisco, February 25-28, 2010) will address factors that have contributed to excluding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues from academic study and student life; and also explore strategies to make our campuses more inclusive for all students. We will examine strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities. This will be among the first national conferences in higher education to focus on LGBTQ concerns by seeking connections across diversities, disciplines, and academic and student affairs.

Partnering Organizations:
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
Association for College and University Religious Affairs (ACURA)
Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals
Global Fund for Women Professional and Organizational
Development (POD) Network in Higher Education

Plenary Speakers:
John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University
L. Lee Knefelkamp, Teachers College, Columbia University
Scotty McLennan, Stanford University
Kavita N. Ramdas, Global Fund for Women
Steven Tierney, California Institute of Integral Studies

November 18-20, 2009

Department of Gender Studies

Linköping University, Sweden

Papers are invited for an international conference on transgender studies
and theories in a Nordic context. Within the Nordic context there are
already a number of activists and researchers from different disciplines
focusing on transgender questions. However, at present, there is no network
to connect people with an interest in trans questions. This conference aims
to:

• collect and share transgender knowledge

• develop interdisciplinary perspectives on transgender questions

• create networks and establish contacts between researchers

• discuss collaborative work between different interested groups

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*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:*

*Gayle Salamon, Allucquére Rosanne Stone, Del LaGrace Volcano, Stephen
Whittle*

Supported by funding from Vetenskapsrådet and Linköping University, this
conference will combine keynote presentations by internationally renowned
experts, seminar presentations and discussions, a performance by a drag king
group, and an art exhibition by Del LaGrace Volcano. A special issue of the
Graduate Journal of Social Science (http://gjss.org/) will be published in
2010 with a selection of papers developed from the conference. We welcome
papers from researchers, transgender activists, and transpersons from the
Nordic countries, Europe and the broader international scene
on/across/expanding the following themes:

· Transpolitics (including anti-discrimination work, research ethics
& methods, conceptualising “trans”)

· The Trans Body: the Good Life and the Good Body (including
medicine, bioethics and philosophy)

· Trans(bio)graphy, Transnationality, Transectionality (including
personal/political/theoretical/locational narratives)

· Embodiment, Technology and Culture (including “technologies” of
the transgendered body, the posthumanities)

· Trans Art, Culture and ‘Performance’ (including questions of
representation, politics vs aesthetics)

*Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words indicating your
preferred theme and a brief biography (max 150 words) in English to:*

*nordic.trans.conference@gmail.com*

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*Deadline for abstract submission: 8 September 2009*

International Symposium on Trans Cinema Studies

19th May 2009 at the University of Amsterdam
Co-sponsored by T-Image Foundation and The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Convened by Eliza Steinbock, PhD Candidate at ASCA and board member of T-Image Foundation

Taking place in conjunction with the Netherlands Transgender Film Festival (NTGF)
20-24 May 2009 at de Balie Cultural Center

In celebration of our 5th bi-annual festival, we will convene a full day of debate amongst scholars, filmmakers, the transgender community, and festival attendees. We imagine this symposium to be both reflective and forward-looking.

Susan Stryker (visiting Professor, Harvard University and Associate Professor Gender Studies, Indiana University) will present her groundbreaking work on Christine Jorgenson, a transsexual celebrity and filmmaker, as well as lead the closing plenary.

We invite 20 min. presentations from scholars and/or professionals in the field. In the interest of staking out some of the concerns of “trans cinema studies,” we suggest the following issues:

History: in what ways have gay and lesbian television, cinema and festivals enabled trans visibility; what are the histories of other avenues of emergence; in what ways have film festivals shaped the films that have been made?;

Accessibility/Distribution: what might we do about the identity ‘problem’ facing trans film festivals, which as a platform for trans cinema are sidelined as being too specialist or become redundant as more queer film festivals curate a trans program; what are the implications of greater or lesser distribution for certain films at festivals and elsewhere?

Reception: what work do (trans) viewers perform on films to make them trans, read them as trans, to make the films work in particular ways; what is at stake in trans perceptibility and how might we understand it?

Film Craft: to what extent have techniques and strategies from queer and feminist film been incorporated into trans cinema and vice versa; is ‘transness’ in the director, content, conventions/expectations, the market, or?;

Genre: which genres has trans representation tapped into and why; which genres have not yet been explored; might trans cinema be an expansive term to include experimental cinema (new languages and strategies)?;

Representation: what are the dominant and subjugated models of trans representation, especially in terms of the politics of nation, race, age, sexuality, and class; what kinds of shifts have occurred in terms of films with MTF or transfeminine characters and films with FTM or transmasculine characters?;

Film Theory: how might feminist film theory overlap with trans film theory; do we mean ‘trans’ as a concept or a practice; what methods of film analysis and film history does trans cinema render obsolete; what tools of analysis does trans cinema call for and suggest?

Interdisciplinarity: in what ways might transgender/transsexual practice and cinema relate?; how might shared concepts, such as, duration, narrative, technology expand and enrich both fields of study?;

Please submit a 250 word abstract of your intended paper
and a biographical note.
Send to Eliza Steinbock
by 1 February 2009.
We look forward to your response and hope to see you in May!
www.transgenderfilmfestival.com