Film Screening of Framing Agnes, followed by a Q-and-A with Professor Jules Gill-Peterson
Sep 12, 2024 — 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
A screening of Framing Agnes, a historical documentary that combines fiction and nonfiction elements and is based on historical case files from a gender clinic in the early post-WW2 period. A central interlocutor of the film is historian Jules Gill-Peterson, who is an alumna of uOttawa’s Department of History and today a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, who will answer questions over Zoom between 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Framing Agnes Q and A
Between 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., we will watch Framing Agnes together in room 12110, Desmarais Hall.
Between 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Jules Gill-Peterson will be on the Zoom call for a Q-and-A about the film.
Jules Gill-Peterson
Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
A graduate of the Department of History of the University of Ottawa, Jules Gill-Peterson is now an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is a scholar of transgender history and the history of sexuality, focusing on racial histories of sex, gender, and trans embodiment. She is the author of the award-winning Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and A Short History of Trans Misogyny (Verso Books, 2024).