| Description | Join the Imagining Trans Futures Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster and the MFA for Creative Writing and Poetics Cultural Change seminar for a Talk & Conversation with Dr. Cameron Awkward-Rich on “Looking for Pauli (In Black Trans Time).”
The event will take place on Zoom, and the Zoom link will be shared the morning of the event for those who pre-register. Register for this event now!
Pauli Murray has increasingly come to be regarded as a figure in/for a black trans past. While such recovery projects often hinge on questions about transness—and, in particular, whether it is possible to locate it in the past—this talk hinges on about pastness, about temporality, history, time. As a meditation on both the writing of Dr. Cameron Awkward-Rich’s 2019 poetry collection Dispatch and the life/writing of the many-faced Murray, their remarks will be something of an experiment in answering the question: what does it mean to write a black trans past?
Dr. Cameron Awkward-Rich is a poet and scholar of transgender theory/cultural production. He is the author of two collections of poetry -- Sympathetic Little Monster (2016) and Dispatch (2019)-- and his critical writing has been published in Signs, Transgender Studies Quarterly, American Quarterly and elsewhere. His work has been supported by fellowships from Cave Canem; Duke University's program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the American Council of Learned Socities. Awkward-Rich received his PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought and Literature and is an assistant professor of women, gender, sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
This event is part of the Imagining Trans Futures Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster, a tri-campus trans studies research cluster bringing together cross-disciplinary scholars, artists, and leaders in conversation around imagining trans futures and the intersections between critical trans studies and trans knowledge production both inside and outside of the academy.
It is also part of from The Convergence Zone, a series of author readings, and artist talks and performances, sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. It brings together sometimes peaceable, sometimes combustible, fronts of discovery and experiment. This series brings to the (virtual) Seattle metropolitan area exciting writers and artists who "cross" and "trans" genres and media. It discusses and performs written arts in an expanded field.
This talk is free and open to the public and funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.
For more information or questions, please contact Ching-In Chen (chingin@uw.edu) and Neil Simpkins (nfsimp@uw.edu)
The organizer of this event is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation. Real-time captioning (CART) will be provided for this event. To request disability accommodation, individuals must contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@uw.edu. If you have any access needs which you want the organizers to know about or further questions about disability accommodation, contact the organizers (nfsimp@uw.edu, chingin@uw.edu). |
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