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Transnational Care Book Club Event
February 6, 2025, 4:00PM EST, MSC 2707
Launch Event: Keynote Address by Dr. Neda Atanasoski: 鈥淭races of Antifascism in the
Postsocialist Former Yugoslavia鈥�
February 14, 2025, 12:00鈥�2:00PM EST, CMC 202T
Reading Group: 鈥淩eadings of 'Tangerine' in Trans Studies, Postsocialism, and Racial
Capitalism,鈥� facilitated by Dr. Dana Ahern
For more information about these and other Transnational Care Book Club events, visit the book club page.
Sponsored by the USF Department of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; USF Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies; USF Institute for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies; and the USF Humanities Institute.
Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference
February 21, 2025
TECO Hall/Education Building, USF Tampa Campus
For conference information, visit the conference page.
Brown Bag Series: "Criminal Medicine: 51在线 and the State of Trans Medicine" with Dr. Dana Ahern
March 13, 2025, 12:30-2:00pm
CMC 202T
Hybrid Event - RSVP for Teams Link
Recently the state of 51在线 has been at the forefront of debates regrading transgender care in the U.S., with recent bills attacking trans people, such as prohibiting the teaching of information on gender and sexuality for students in eight grade and younger, as well as threats to revoke custody from parents who allow their children to seek gender-affirming medical care. Analyzing bills coming out of 51在线 and legislative retaliations to them in places like California which has defined itself as a sanctuary state, alongside the major figures in these debates 鈥� politicians, parents, and medical providers 鈥� this paper critically examines the management of access to medicine as a mode of state violence and control.
Dr. Dana Ahern鈥檚 research primarily utilizes digital archives and oral histories to explore the technological development and utilization of transgender medicine over the past century, particularly between and across the United States and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining USF, Ahern completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity where he taught classes in queer and trans studies. Ahern鈥檚 teaching and research interests primarily revolve around intersections of queer and trans studies, disability studies, and feminist science and technology studies.
Transnational Care Book Club Event
March 26, 2025, 1:00鈥�3:00PM EST, via Teams
Online Film Screening and Discussion: Named Voices
April 11, 2025, 12:00鈥�2:00PM EST, via Teams
Teaching-Oriented Roundtable: 鈥淭eaching Audre Lorde鈥檚 鈥楴otes on a Trip to Russia,鈥欌��
facilitated by Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko
For more information about these and other Transnational Care Book Club events, visit the book club page.
Sponsored by the USF Department of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; USF Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies; USF Institute for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies; and the USF Humanities Institute.
The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2022-2023 academic year. Visit our 50th Anniversary page, to view more information about the 50th Anniversary Events.