Queer & Trans Negativity Symposium
When and Where
Description
The Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group on Queer & Trans Negativity is pleased to announce the Queer & Trans Negativity Symposium, a two-day symposium that will take place at Innis College and the Jackman Humanities Building on April 30-May 1, 2026. Professor Damon R. Young (French and Film & Media, UC Berkeley) will give our keynote address, which is entitled "Queer Cinema and the Nothing," on April 30 in Innis Town Hall, while a day of panels is slated for May 1 in the Jackman Humanities Building. Join us for generative discussions on queer and trans studies' long preoccupation with negativity, its potentialities and limitations, how negativity (and its refutation) impact our understanding of queer and trans art, cinema, and literature, and what, if queer and trans studies tend towards negativity, matters at the end of it all.
This is a free public event.
Contact information
Kanika Lawton, Cinema Studies Institute and Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
Avneet Sharma, Cinema Studies Institute and Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
Acknowledgments
This event is organized by the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group on Queer & Trans Negativity. Sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute, the University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union, and the Cinema Studies Institute. Hosted by the Jackman Humanities Institute.
