This event is taking place on May 20\, 2026 from 12:00 pm - 5:30 pm PT. To attend\, please fill out this registration form by May 6\, 2026 .
As this is a hybrid event\, attendees can participate in-person in Buchanan Tower 997\, or online via Zoom. If you are planning to attend virt ually\, please register using this form.
Light refreshments will be provided for those who att end in person.
[accordions collapsible=true active=fa lse][accordion title="Graduate Student Seminar: Decoding Trans – Translatin g Gender-Diverse Texts from German"]
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm (in-p
erson or on Zoom)
Led by Dr. Cedar Lensing-Sharp and Jona
h I. Garde
How do we transmit the indeterminacy or ambiguity of gender from one language to another? How might we respond\, both theoretic ally and in translation practice\, to the ethical issues inherent in texts that cast gender diversity as pathology? While the role of translation in t he transmission of knowledge about non-normative sexualities and genders ha s been acknowledged by scholars\, less attention has been paid to the strat egies and ethical questions that might influence the practice of translatin g texts that depict transness or trans people.
This seminar brings gr aduate students and workshop participants together in critical conversation about ethics\, strategies\, and contexts informing the translation of Germ an texts on trans gender. Readings will be pre-circulated\, and graduate st udents are invited to bring their own short sample translations of German-l anguage texts on trans gender for the workshop portion of the seminar. Thes e texts may include sexological writings\, letters\, police records\, memoi r or autobiographical writing\, fiction\, poetry\, or scholarly works.
< p>Our aim is to grapple with both the challenges and the critical potential of translating texts that center on non-normative or trans gender identiti es and expressions. Through discussion and providing constructive feedback on one another’s translations\, we hope to introduce newcomers to critical questions in the translation of transgender texts and equip all attendees w ith strategies for their own research and translation work on German trans texts.The seminar will consist of two parts: a workshop for graduate students at UBC to receive feedback on translations in progress (with all attendees welcome to sit in) and a roundtable discussion\, open to all atte ndees\, in which we will discuss pre-circulated readings in conjunction wit h questions and issues that arose during the workshop portion.[/accordion][ /accordions]
[accordions collapsible=true active=false][accordion tit le="Trans*Form_ations: A Mini-Zine Making Workshop"]
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm (in-person only)
Led by Cedar Lensing-Sharp and
Jonah I. Garde
During this intimate\, hands-on workshop\, we w ill explore zine-making as a practice of queer and trans world-making. Work ing together\, we will experiment with cutting\, pasting\, layering\, and r emixing as methods of storytelling and critique\, paying particular attenti on to how trans lives have been represented\, erased\, and reimagined withi n German-speaking contexts. Attendees will create a collective zine made of (reproduced) archival sources relating to trans German past\, presents\, a nd futures.
Materials will be provided although participants are welc ome to bring their own magazines\, stickers\, images\, writings\, and found objects to use for collaging. No prior experience with zine-making is nece ssary.[/accordion][/accordions]
This event is co-sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service\, the UBC Centre for European Studies\, the Centre for Queer and Trans Cultural Praxis (UBC Resear ch Excellence Cluster)\, the UBC In stitute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, the UBC Public Humanities Hub\, and the UBC Robert Quartermain Centre for SOGI- Inclusive Excellence in Education.
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