Donderdagmiddag 13 januari 2011 presenteert Eliza Steinbock zich bij de faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) in het Academisch Cultureel Centrum, Spui 25. Zij haalde haar bachelor in Liberal Arts (specialisatie Gender & sexuality studies) aan de Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, haar master aan de universiteit van Leeds. In 2006 kwam ze naar de UvA. Haar onderzoek richt zich op ‘de interdisciplinaire voordelen van het werken tussen Transgender studies en Film studies’. Aanmelden kan via deze site. De toegang is gratis. De presentatie is in het Engels.
The Illustere School of the Faculty of Humanities presents Eliza Steinbock.
Eliza’s project seeks to formulate an interdisciplinary theory of shimmering that attends to the provocations of transgender embodiment and eroticism in cinema for gender studies and film theory. The interdisciplinarity of the project is inspired by the shimmering visual status of some cinematic images; hence, it explores how this visuality might relate to some gender states-of-becoming. The dissertation develops this central theory of shimmering through five major concepts: Image, Secrecy, Cut, Suture, and Curiosity. Through a different theoretical paradigm, each chapter addresses the cultural difficulty in seeing and knowing those represented transgender experiences which waver in a largely uncharted “transitioning” state of gender. Moreover, I investigate the ways in which a soma-cinematic notion of shimmering modifies key terms in the Humanities such as subjectivity, corporeality, sexuality, and truth. The project integrates a select corpus of mainstream and alternative erotic film and video in which trans-sexuality is at stake with concepts from Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan as well as Maaike Bleeker, Susan Stryker, and Laura Mulvey.
Eliza Steinbock studied a liberal arts program at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, obtaining her Bachelors degree with an emphasis in gender and sexuality studies. She then received a Masters in Cultural Studies (with distinction) at the University of Leeds, UK. In 2006 she was awarded the position of ASCA research fellow and has since organized a symposium, seminar, and reading groups on a variety of her research topics. Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary benefits of working between transgender studies and film studies by developing their shared, although differently inflected, concepts
Programme
13.15 – 13.18 uur Introduction by dr. Murat Aydemir
13.18 – 13.36 uur Lecture by Eliza Steinbock
13.36 – 13.50 uur Questions
Registration through www.spui25.nl. Attending the lecture is free of cost.
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