Talks
Summer 2024
On sex as a legal category, at a symposium, “Exploring the many dimensions of sex and gender in the genomic era,” at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, July 17, 2024.
Spring 2024
Reed College, Thursday, April 11th, 5:00 pm. In person.
Advanced Research Collaborative, Graduate Center, CUNY, Thursday, April 4, 4:00 pm. Hybrid
University of Louisville, 2024 Minx Auerbach Lecture, March 7th, 5:30 pm. In person.
Wesleyan University, Monday, March 4th, 6 pm. In person
Fall 2023
LGBT Public Policy Center at Roosevelt House, Hunter College, CUNY, book talk with Zein Murib, November 14, in person and on Zoom.
Frankfurt Germany, October 9-13.
Brown University (via Zoom), “Republican Gender Reveals: The Legislative Assaults on Trans and Non-Binary Youth,” (Zoom) 12 pm, November 2
Summer 2023
Women’s Rights National Historic Park, “How the Women’s Rights Movement Paved the Way for Transgender Equality--and the Work that Remains to be Done,” Friday, July 21, 4:00 p.m. Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls.
Spring 2023
California Polytechnic State University, ”The United States of Transgender? ‘Red’ States, ‘Blue’ States, and the Myth of Geographical Gender Revanchism,” May 19
Lawrence University, “This Anti-trans Moment: Resisting the Right and the Center,” April 27.
The University of California, Santa Cruz, “This Anti-trans Moment: Resisting the Right and the Center,” April 14
Whittier College, “Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity,” April 13
“Sex, the State, and Trans Politics: A Conversation with Paisley Currah and Tristan Josephson,” California State University—Sacramento, April 11, 3- 4 pm.
“Sex Is as Sex Does in this Anti-trans Moment,” Muhlenberg College, March 30, 6 pm, Seegers Union 110. The current assault on transgender people in the United States seems relatively new, but in fact governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades—from contradictory rules for sex classification to bans on Medicaid coverage to rules about gender-appropriate comportment. In this talk, Currah situates these legislative attacks within a longer history of gender governance.
“This Anti-trans moment: Resisting the Right and the Center,” Feminists on the Politics of the Crisis, the Eighth Annual Women’s History Month Conference, Northeastern University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, March 24.
With Barbara Smith, Lorie Bryant, Jason Wu, and Kelly Spivey, Justice or Just Us? Defining a Queer Agenda,” Brooklyn College, March 15, 11:00 a.m.
Flagler College, “Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity,” January 27
“Inclusive language in scientific publishing: sex and gender,” (video online) a panel for Cell Press, with Kendra Albert and Sarah S. Richardson, January 11, 2023.
2022
November 17, 2022, Kenyon College.
Wednesday, October 25, 2002, 6:00 p.m. ET, on-line, with Joshua Sealy-Harrington and Red Washburn, Center for the Study of Women and Society, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Event recording (not yet captioned).
October 17, 2022, in-person (and possibly online), Keynote address, “Sex Is as Sex Does: Trans Studies After Identity Politics,” Keynote address, International Colloquium on Transgender Studies/Transgender Epistemologies, Laboratoire des études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS), UMR 8238, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis.
October 12, 2022, 4:00 p.m. E.T., Ithaca College.
Monday, October 10th, 2:00 p.m. ET, on-line, “On-Philosophy” Colloquium from The Philosopher (UK) and The Boston Review, with Robin Dembroff as the interlocutor. Event recording.
Sunday, October 2, 2022, 10:00 a.m.—Brooklyn Book Festival, with Hugh Ryan, author of The Women’s House of Detention and moderator Brian Vines. Brooklyn Law School Outdoor Stage, 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn NY 11201. More details.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 1:00 p.m., in-person. Housing Works Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 4:00 p.m ET, in-person, with Katherine Franke and Che Gossett, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia University.
Friday, September 16, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET in-person. Author meets critics roundtable at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec. With Angela D. Ledford, Julie L. Novkov, em padilla, Dara Z. Strolovitch, Juliet A. Williams, Joanna W. Wuest. Room is Palais Convention Center, Room 524A.
Thursday, September 15, 2022, 5:00 pm, in-person. “Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity,” Faculty of Law, McGill University, Room 101, New Chancellor Day Hall, Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal, QC, CA.
Friday, July 22, 7:00 p.m. in-person and live-streamed, with Shannon Minter, The Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North 3rd Street, Harrisburg, PA.
Tuesday, July 5, 7:30 p.m., IN-PERSON, Paisley Currah presents Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, in conversation with Andrea Long Chu. Greenlight Bookstore, Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY. Event recording linked here.