[BCMA] Schedule now available! Moving Trans* History Forward Symposium, March 21-23, 2014, University of Victoria

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Dear colleagues -
The schedule for the Moving Trans* History Forward Symposium is now available at the following link:
http://transgenderarchives.ca/schedule

We hope you can join us March 21 - 23rd, 2014 at the University of Victoria for this historic event, made possible with the assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Victoria Libraries.  Moving Trans* History Forward is a symposium to bring together people working with transgender archival materials to exchange ideas and information, develop linkages, and increase our effectiveness in gathering and disseminating the history of trans* research and activism.

In addition to our engaging session panelists and presenters, our program includes keynote presentations by Susan Stryker, Viviane Namaste, and Dallas Denny, and our opening address will be delivered by Colonel Jennifer N. Pritzker.

For more information and to register, please go to:
http://transgenderarchives.ca/symposium

Please register by March 14, 2014.

On behalf of the Symposium Planning team

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Lara Wilson, MA, MAS
Director, Special Collections & University Archivist
William C. Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library
University of Victoria
PO Box 1800 STN CSC, Victoria, BC  V8W 3H5 Canada
250-472-4480 | ljwilson at uvic.ca<mailto:EMAIL at uvic.ca>  | library.uvic.ca




* GATE-Global Action for Trans* Equality (http://transactivists.org/trans/ ) defines Trans* as:

Trans* people  includes those people who have a gender identity which is different to the gender assigned at birth and/or those people who feel they have to, prefer to or choose to - whether by clothing, accessories, cosmetics or body modification - present themselves differently to the expectations of the gender role assigned to them at birth. This includes, among many others, transsexual and transgender people, transvestites, travesti, cross dressers, no gender and genderqueer people.

The term trans* should be seen as a placeholder for many identities, most of which are specific to local cultures and times in history, describing people who broaden and expand a binary understanding of gender.

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