Cole Rizki, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, will present a talk titled "Choreographies of Survival, Art of Repair." This talk will draw on Professor Rizki's ethnographic work with travesti and trans survivors of dictatorship in Argentina focused on their negotiations with the police camera (mug shots) and surveillance, as well as photographic analysis of a recent exhibition by photographer Germán Menna that includes trans portraiture.

Prof. Rizki is a Latin Americanist and transgender studies scholar whose research examines the entanglements of transgender cultural production and activisms with histories of state violence and terror through the Americas. His scholarship on Latin American gender and sexuality studies, visual culture, memory studies, history, and performance studies has intersections with the work of FQTC/GSWS's own Liz Rose, with whom Prof. Rizki has collaborated for panels and other academic work. 

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