American gender theorist Judith ‘Jack’ Halberstam is coming to Sydney to deliver a special lecture titled ‘Queer Animation’ on August 1 at the Powerhouse Museum.

Halberstam will discuss the themes of social transgression and queer identity that permeate recent Computer Generated Image (CGI) animation in films such as Finding Nemo.

“I will link new technology to queerness and to radical ways of reimagining the world,” Halberstam told SX. Halberstam will also show clips from selected Pixar classics.

The Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California has also authored books including Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book (with Del LaGrace Volcano) and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives.

The seminar is sponsored by the Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy (NDP) interdisciplinary research unit in the University of Western Sydney’s College of Arts.

“The University of Western Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum hope to create and foster more relations between the university, the art community, a popular audience and anyone interested in culture and politics,” Halberstam noted. “People attending the lecture can expect to be provoked, shocked, intrigued, entertained, and maybe even convinced that animation is indeed queer!”

Tickets for Queer Animation are $25/20 available from www.ticketek.com.au

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