Friday, March 21, 2014

7:00-9:00 PM 

Opening Reception - Legacy Arts Gallery, 630 Yates Street

630 Yates St, Victoria, BC V8W 1K9

Welcoming Address: Jamie Cassels, University of Victoria President, QC

Opening Address:  Colonel Jennifer Pritzker, Why a Private Museum/Library?

 Saturday, March 22, 2014

8:00-9:00 AM     

Registration and Information desk open - Cadboro Commons Building, Haro Room

Information room open all day

9:00-9:30 AM

Breakfast - Cadboro Commons, Arbutus-Queenswood Room

Welcome Address: Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian, University of Victoria

                            Aaron H Devor, Founder and Academic Director, The Transgender 

                            Archives

9:45-10:45 AM      

Panel Session 1: Cadboro Commons, Arbutus-Queenswood Room

Developing Trans* Material in the Tretter Collection, Emily Atchison, Volunteer, Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, University of Minnesota

Visible Bodies: Transgender Narratives Re-told, A. Scott Duane, Transgress Press 

Moving Beyond What the Founders Kept, Lisa Vecoli, Curator, Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, University of Minnesota

9:45-10:45 AM 

Panel Session 2: Cadboro Commons, McKenzie-Sinclair Room

The Recognition and Regulation of Gender: Exploring and Preserving Trans* People's Narratives of Equality, Sharon Cowan, University of Edinburgh

Human Rights Issues Arising from the Archival Policies Regarding Name and Sex/Gender Change on Official Documents for Transgender Individuals, Monica Leonardo, Guatamala

Configurations and (Un)Becomings: Bodies as Archives as Bodies, Jamie Lee, University of Arizona 

10:45-11:45 AM 

Panel Session 3: Cadboro Commons, Arbutus-Queenswood Room

What's in a Name? Negotiating Cultural Challenges in the American Deep South, D. Hicks, Mobile, Alabama

The hunt for Geoff Brown, Willow Arune, activist, Prince George, British Columbia

Archiving FTM and Transmasculine Sex Work Practices as Valuable Knowledge, Beau Molnar, Ph.D Candidate, York University

10:45-11:45 AM

Panel Session 4: Cadboro Commons, McKenzie-Sinclair Room

Finding AIDS: Accessing Trans* Histories in the Archives of HIV/AIDS, Marty Fink, Georgia Tech

'Trans' as a Tool of Analysis, Simon Elin-Fisher, Univesity of Wisconsin, Madison 

Dissected Maps and Picture Puzzles: The Cataloguing and Preservation of Harry Crawford’s Crimes (1875 – 1938), Dan Vena, Queens University

12:00-1:15 PM

Lunch - Cadboro Commons, Village Greens

Keynote Presentation: Dr. Viviane Namaste, Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Oral History, Archives, and Invisible Labour of Trans*Women in Montreal

1:30- 2:50 PM

Panel Session 5: Cadboro Commons, Arbutus-Queenswood Room

Access to transgender collections - revisiting the past - the power to name, Michael Waldman, Head, Libraries Collection Management, Baruch College, NY 

Do the Clothes Fit? Clues to Transgender Identity in Photographs of Crossdressing, Ms. Bob Davis, Transgender Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator, City College of San Francisco

Unique Problems in Classifying Pre-1960’s Archival Images of Cross-Dressing, Ardel Thomas, Chair, LGBT Studies,  City College, San Francisco

1:30- 2:50 PM

Workshop 6: Cadboro Commons, McKenzie-Sinclair Room

Envisioning the Digital Transgender Archives, KJ Rawson, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

3:00- 4:20 PM

Panel Session 7: Cadboro Commons, Arbutus-Queenswood Room

Queering Trans* Archives

Sara Davidmann, London College of Communication

Nick Matte, University of Toronto

KJ Rawson, College of the Holy Cross

3:00-4:20 PM

Workshop 8: Cadboro Commons, McKenzie Sinclair Room

Sharing Stories: Transforming Community Through Personal Narrative

Alyx MacAdams, Victoria Sexual Assault Centre

Kingsley Strudwick, Victoria Sexual Assault Centre

4:30-5:15 PM

Tours of the Transgender Archives

Mearns Centre- McPherson Library- Special Collections

4:30-5:15 PM

Exhibition Viewing - Mearns Centre- McPherson Library, Special Collections 

Through words and images, an exhibition and research project on the history of HIV/AIDS and trans women in Paris by Vivian Namaste. With photos by Axel Leotard. Room A003

5:00-6:15 PM

Dinner - Cadboro Commons, Village Greens

6:30-7:45 PM

Keynote Presentation - David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Building

Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona, Trans* Activism and Archiving in the U.S.: History, Objects, Method

Open to the public by donation

8:00-9:15 PM 

Movie Screening - David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Building

Screening "Trans"

Open to the public by donation

 Sunday, March 23, 2014

8:00-8:30 AM

Registration and Information desk opens - Cadboro Commons Building, Haro Room

Information Room open all day

9:45- 11:45 AM 

Founders Panel: Cadboro Commons, Arbutus-Queenswood Room

Moderated by Jude Patton LMHC, LMFT, PA-C. Shifa Health, Mount Vernon, WA, USA

Panel Members:

Dr. Aaron H Devor, Founder and Academic Director, The Transgender Archives, University of Victoria

Stephanie Castle, Author and Founder of the Zenith Foundation

Dr. Ari Kane, Professor of sexology, Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, Founder of Fantasia Fair and the Outreach Institute for Gender Studies

Rikki Swin, Founder of the Rikki Swin Institute

Lara Wilson, Director of Special Collection and University Archivist, University of Victoria

12:00-1:15 PM

Lunch - Cadboro Commons, Village Greens

Keynote Presentation: Preserving Trans* History: A Short History and Suggestions for the Future, Dallas Denny, Activist, Board Member, Gender Education and Advocacy Inc.

1:30-2:30 PM

Panel 9: Cadboro Commons, McKenzie-Sinclair Room

Towards a Trans* Literary Archive, Alexander Eastwood, University of Toronto

Self Published, Unavailable and Out-of-print: Challenges in Collecting and Accessing Trans Inclusive Children’s Literature, j wallace, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Towards an Archive of Emergent Trans* Literatures, Trish Salah, University of Winnipeg

1:30-3:30 PM

Panel 10: Cadboro Commons, Arbutus-Queenswood Room

Pixel Preservation, Tami Meredith, St. Mary's University

Archive? What Archive, Where? The Challenges of Preservation in the Digital Age, Reverend Moonhawk River Stone, M.S., LMHC

Eunuchs On-line: The Eunuch Archive as a Data Resource, Thomas Johnson, California State University, Chico

'Timelapsed Transformation Videos in Full!': YouTube, Trans Bodies, and the Exhibition of Lived Experiences, Aoife Hart, University of British Columbia

2:30-3:30 PM

Panel 11: Cadboro Commons, McKenzie Sinclair Room

Twin-Spirited Woman: Sts'iyóye smestíyexw slhá:li, Saylesh Wesley, PhD student, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 

Preserving Pedagogy: At the Intersections of Trans Archives, Community Organizing, and the University Classroom, Cassius Adair, University of Michigan

The Importance of Archives from the Perspective of a Queer Thinker, Deneige Nadeau, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

3:30-4:00 PM

Closing - Cadboro Commons, Arbutus-Queenswood Room

Dr. Aaron H Devor, Founder and Academic Director, The Transgender Archives, University of Victoria

Lara Wilson, Director of Special Collections, University Archivist, University of Victoria Libraries

4:15-5:30 PM

Networking and Tours of the Transgender Archives

Exhibition Viewing