Queens College to Host its Fourth ‘Early Modern Trans Studies Conference’
“featuring scholars who are focused on pre-modern gender and sexuality”
This is another perfect example of higher education completely ignoring where the public is on this issue.
Campus Reform reports:
Queens College to host ‘Early Modern Trans Studies’ conference featuring ‘weirdest’ scholarship
Queens College in New York is set to host its fourth “Early Modern Trans Studies Conference” from April 30 to May 2, featuring scholars who are focused on pre-modern gender and sexuality.
Advertising the event on social media, Queens College’s LGBTQIAA+ Programs stated on Instagram that the event is slated to be a “conference” which will consist of “three full days of brilliant scholars in fields of pre-and early modern gender and sexuality sharing their finest (and weirdest) work!”
The event, advertised as “EMoTrans 4,” is set to feature more than 30 individuals who will present their work. The event is sponsored by Queens College’s English department, Women & Gender Studies department, LGBTQIAA+ Student Programs, and others.
Wayne State University’s Center for Gender & Sexuality is also listed as a sponsor for the event, and an associate professor, Simone Chess, is co-organizing the event. Chess’s university profile states that her written work has focused on “bathrooms, gender labor, blindness, and other topics related to early modern queer, trans, and disability studies.”
In a Google form for students and faculty to sign up for the event itself, it asks for basic information from attendees, including their “Institutional Affiliation,” while also asking attendees if they are “secretly an artist who would like to talk to us about making/sharing/selling EmoTrans swag?”
The event is set to be moderated by faculty members Miles Grier and Samyer K. Kemp.
Grier is described on his CUNY profile as having research interests in areas including “trans studies,” “critical race studies,” and “Atlantic theatre and performance history.”
Grier is further described as an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, and has completed “historical work [that] seizes upon the stigmatic significance of blackface in Anglo-American performance as alternative to legal and scientific histories of racial ideology.”
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I’m so old, I remember when these “communities” would simply perform a flamboyant version of Midsummer Nights’ Dream, then chortle about it at the afterparty.