The Newberry: The Launch of the Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern

October 22, 2021

Friday, October 22, 2021

12 pm Central Time

Online via Zoom

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This virtual roundtable celebrates the launch of Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell University Press, 2021), a multidisciplinary edited collection that explores the politics, poetics, and aesthetics of trans histories prior to modernity. The book argues for an expansive understanding of trans pasts and foregrounds a range of methodologies that acknowledge the plurality of gender experiences in early sources and material records. Essays highlight pre-normative understandings of gender that flourished in the medieval and early modern worlds in a wide range of locations from colonial North America to Renaissance Poland, from Byzantine and Ottoman Greece and Turkey to Korea.

Speakers
Gabrielle BychowskiCase Western University
Anna KÅ‚osowska, Miami University
Greta LaFleurYale University
Masha RaskolnikovCornell University
Blake GuttUniversity of Michigan, Moderator

Cost and Registration Information 
This program is free and open to all, but registration in advance is required. To register, please complete this online registration form.