Backlash against LGBTQ2S+ People and Rights in Canada
Date
Tuesday October 22, 202411:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location
The Corry Colloquium Speaker Series of the Department of Political Studies presents:
"Backlash against LGBTQ2S+ People and Rights in Canada" :: A Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
11:30 AM -1:00 PM
The Law Building | Room 4
Light lunch served
A Panel Discussion Featuring:
Quinn Albaugh, Assistant Professor, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Department of Political Studies
Quinn Albaugh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on parties, elections, and representation in Canada in a comparative perspective. Her work tends to focus on themes of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class inequalities. She is currently working on a book project entitled Gatekeeping: How and Why Party Organizations Improve the Representation of Marginalized Groups. In addition, she is working on three major projects on LGBTQ politics, which focus on (1) LGBTQ candidates and representation, (2) LGBTQ linked fate and political behaviour, and (3) the political attitudes and behaviour of trans and nonbinary people.
Steven Maynard, Adjunct Associate Professor, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Department of History
Steven is a Canadian social historian, specializing in the history of sexuality. His research, scholarly publications, and contributions to public and community-based history are animated by critical questions concerning the histories and politics of gender and sexuality. He also publishes in the areas of archival theory and Foucault studies. Steven’s teaching focuses on the pedagogical possibilities of "a history of the present." He is the founder and ongoing co-chair of the, an affiliate of the Canadian Historical Association, and book review editor of the . Steven has been active in the LGBTQ movement for many years and writes frequently on politics, culture, and history for the mainstream and queer community press.
Trish Salah, Associate Professor, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Department of Gender Studies
Trish Salah’s research, teaching and supervision areas include postcolonial/decolonial, feminist, trans and queer poetics, literatures and theory, transnational transgender cultural production, psychoanalysis and affect theory, sex workers' rights movements, and un/popular cultures. Her current projects are Towards a Trans Minor Literature, an inquiry into the aesthetic and political projects of trans, transsexual, genderqueer and two-spirit writers, and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 2, a poetic exploration of colonial sexologies and phantasies of place-based sexuality.
Her first book of poetry, Wanting in Arabic, investigated the inscription of diasporic trans and queer subjectivities and the social, rhetorical and desiring labour of minority community formation. Her second book, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1, employs the lyric as a lens to read transgender fantasies encoded in feminist, autobiographical, anthropological, sexological and psychoanalytic archives.
Moderator: Elizabeth Baisley, Assistant Professor, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Department of Political Studies
Dr. Elizabeth Baisley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies. Broadly speaking, Baisley’s research focuses on issues of rights and representation in Canadian politics. This research often foregrounds the role of political parties, interest groups, and social movements in social and political change. Baisley draws on both qualitative and quantitative materials, including archival materials, interviews, observations of political events, survey data, roll-call data, and experiments.