Selected Invited Addresses

2023

Featured Speaker. Transgender Day of Visibility Address. BC Legislature Flag Raising Ceremony. March. 2023.
Invited Lecture. Trans+ People in Prisons. William Head Prison, Victoria, BC. Feb.
Invited Lecture. Panelist. Screening of National Film Board of Canada’s Unarchived. Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC. Feb. 2023.
Invited Lecture. Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Jewish Employees Network Jewish Pride – A Panel on Difference and Inclusion. Online. Feb. 2023.

2022

Invited Lecture. Shoulders to Stand On: A Glimpse of Trans+ History. Lululemon. Online. Nov. 2022.
Featured Speaker. Transgender Day of Remembrance Address. BC Legislature Flag Raising Ceremony. Nov. 2022.
Invited Lecture. History of Care for Gender Diverse People. Post-Graduate Psychiatric Academic Day. University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine. Online. Nov. 2022.
Invited Lecture. The Transgender Archives Celebrating 10 Years: A Year in Review. 5 Days of Action. UVic. Nov. 2022.
Invited Lecture. Obligation to Memory: The Value of Lived Experience. Planning with Pride Conference. Online. November. 2022.
Keynote Address. “Trans+ Research: From Obscurity to Everywhere.” 65th Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Vancouver. October. 2022.
Invited Lecture. Storytelling Trans Futures Workshop. Athabasca University. Online. Sept. 2022.
Invited Lecture. History in the Raw: The Transgender Archives. Aspire to Action High School program. June. 2022.
Invited Lecture. Shoulders to Stand On: A Taste of Trans+ History. Environics Analytics (online). June. 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFEia95oeg (51:03)
Invited Lecture. Trans 101: The Basics. Jewish Community Centre, Victoria, BC, May. 2022.
Invited Lecture. Framing Agnes film screening commentary. UVic. Mar. 2022
Invited Lecture. Social Sciences Research Lightening Rounds, UVic, Mar. 2022

2021

Keynote Address. “What You Should Know About the Chair in Transgender Studies.”25th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health. Online, Sept.
2021.
Plenary Panel Address. “The Transgender Archives: Acquisitions, Omissions, Uses.” Third Libraries and Archives Canada Forum with University Partners: Memory Institutions as Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive Places. Online, June. 2021
Plenary Panel Address. “Trans* Leadership in Higher Education: Challenges and Change.” 2021 LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education Leadership Institute. Online, June. 2021
Invited Lecture. Repository for Remembering: The Transgender Archives. Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Manilla, Philippines (online). Nov. 2021
Invited Lecture. Shoulders to Stand On: A Glimpse of Trans+ History. Lululeman LGBTQ+ Resource Group (online). Nov. 2021
Invited Lecture. The Transgender Archives: Celebrating 10 Years. Five Days of Action. UVic. Nov. 2021
Invited Lecture. The Transgender Archives: Preserving Trans+ History. Vancouver Art Book Fair. Vancouver (online). Oct. 2021
Invited Lecture. History in the Raw: The Transgender Archives. Friends of the BC Archives, Victoria (online), May. 2021
Invited Lecture. Interview for Organizational Equity and Inclusion: A Strategic Roadmap. UBC Certificate in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (online). Mar. 2021

2019

Plenary Address. “Queering Memory, Defending the Future.” Queering Memory Conference. Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections LGBTQ+ Association. Berlin. June. 2019.
Featured Speaker. “Trans 101 for Law Enforcement.” Police Leadership Conference.  Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. Vancouver. April. 2019
Featured Speaker. Transgender Day of Remembrance Address. BC Legislature Flag Raising Ceremony. Nov. 2019

2018

Featured Speaker.. “The World’s Only Transgender Archives and Chair in Transgender Studies. What Are They, and How Did They Happen?” Fantasia Fair, Provincetown MA, Oct. 2018
Featured Speaker. Hitotsubashi University National Campus. Tokyo, Japan, April. 2018.
Featured Speaker. Umeda Gakuto Hall, Osaka, Japan. April. 2018.
Keynote Address. Canadian Association of University Teachers 4th Equity Conference, Ottawa, April. 2018.

2017

Featured Speaker. The Shifting Landscape of Gender, Salt Spring Forum, Mar. 2017.
Panel Speaker. Universities Canada. Ottawa, Feb. 2017.
Featured Speaker. Canadian Federation of University Women. Victoria, Feb. 2017.
Featured Speaker. Transgender Pioneer Virginia Prince. Royal BC Museum,
Victoria, BC. July. 2017
Featured Speaker. Connect U Conference. The University of Victoria is a World
Leader in Transgender Studies. How Did it Happen? UVic, May. 2017
Invited Speaker. Law Enforcement & Transgender People. 2017
Featured Speaker. Critical Studies in Sexuality 301, Introduction to Trans Studies, UBC, Jan. 2017.

2016

Plenary Address. Jin Xing Conference. Beijing, China. Dec. 2016.
Keynote Speaker. BC Law Enforcement Diversity Network, Vancouver, Nov. 2016.
Featured Speaker. Transgender Archives. New View Conference. Kinsey Institute, Bloomington IA. Oct. 2016.
Featured Speaker. Gender Odyssey Professional Conference, Transgender Ageing. Seattle, WA. Aug. 2016.
Roundtable. Archivist’s Talk & Curator’s Roundtable, Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary. June. 2016
Keynote Address. “History in the Raw: The Transgender Archives.” Without Borders: LGBTQ+ Archives, Libraries, Museums & Special Collections. London, UK. June. 2016

2015

Keynote Address. “History in the Raw: The Transgender Archives.” Fantasia Fair. Provincetown, MA. October. 2015
Keynote Address. ‘History in the Raw: The Transgender Archives.” Fantasia Fair. Provincetown, MA. October, 2015.
Keynote Address. “History in the Raw: The Transgender Archives.” Canadian Sex Research Forum. Kelowna, BC. October, 2015.
Plenary Address. “History in the Raw: The Transgender Archives.” National Transgender Health Summit. Oakland, CA. April, 2015.

2014

Plenary Address . “Moving Trans* History Forward 2014 Founders Panel” Moving Trans* History Forward 2014 Victoria, BC. March, 2014.

2013

Plenary Address. “50 Years of LGBTQ Activism.” University of Victoria Provost’s Diversity Forum. Victoria, BC. January, 2013.

2009

Plenary Address. “Talking About Gender & Sexual Diversity.” Options for Sexual Health Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC. October, 2009.

2008

Keynote Address. “Providing a Founding Framework: The Vision and Activism of Three Transgender Pioneers.” 1st Annual Meetings of the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health. Toronto, ON. June, 2008.

Keynote Address.“Honoring Our Past, Envisioning Our Future.” 7th Annual Mazzoni Center Trans-Health Conference. Philadelphia, PA. May, 2008.

2007

Keynote Address. “Talking About Sexuality in a Diverse Society.” Sex in Your City Conference. Vancouver, BC. February, 2007.

2006

Keynote Address. “FTMs of the Past.” Transgenders in Different World Cultures Symposium. Grupo Luna, Turin, Italy. November, 2006.
Invited Featured Address. “Realizing a Vision: Reed Erickson and the Erickson Educational Foundation.” Trans/Equity Past, Present and Possibilities. Public Symposium. York University, Toronto, ONT. April, 2006.
Invited Featured Address. “Seeking Gender (In)Difference.” Trans/Forming Knowledge: The Implications of Transgender Studies for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Public Symposium. University of Chicago. February, 2006.

2001

Keynote Address. “Who are ‘We’? Where Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Meet.” 15th Meetings of the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists, New
Orleans, LA, May, 2001.
Plenary Address. “The Scholarship of Teaching.” Western Canadian Deans of Arts and Sciences Conference, Victoria, BC, March, 2001.

1999

Plenary Address. “Blending and Transgendering: Confronting the Limits of Lesbianism.” 25th Meetings of the International Academy of Sex Research, Stony Brook, NY, June, 1999.

1998

Keynote Address. How Many Sexes? How Many Genders? When Two Are Not Enough.” 3rd Western Canadian Sexual Health Conference, Edmonton, Alta, May, 1998.

1997

Plenary Address. “A Social Context for Gender Dysphoria.” XV Symposium of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health , Vancouver, Canada, September, 1997.
Keynote Address. “Female Gender Dysphoria in Context: Personal Problem or Social Problem?” Society for Sex Therapy and Research, Chicago, IL, March, 1997.

1996

Provost’s Lecture. “How Many Sexes? How Many Genders? When Two are Not Enough,” University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, November, 1996.

1995

Plenary Address. “The Fallacy of Duality in Conceptualizations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality.” 38th Annual Meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, San Francisco, CA, November, 1995.