Jack Halberstam / Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 15
Room: 
Auditorium B
Category: 
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 5:30pm

Change of program!

Jack Halberstam gives a talk based on his new book, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability

(The originally planned discussion between Eva Hayward and Jack Halberstam is moved to the 26th of February, after the joint talks!)

Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of six books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, most recently, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press).  Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book titled Wild Thing: Queer Theory after Nature on queer anarchy, performance and protest culture the intersections between animality, the human and the environment.