When: Monday, April 4, 2022 | 10:00 – 11:00 am
Where: Zoom
Reappointment of the Quartermain Professor of Gender & Sexuality in Education: Public Presentation
As part of the reappointment process of the Robert Quartermain Professorship of Gender & Sexuality in Education, Dr. Harper Keenan will deliver a public presentation via Zoom in which he will discuss his achievements, and accomplishments as holder of this professorship since 2019. Dr. Keenan will also outline his vision for the work associated with this professorship and how it will continue to further Sexual Orientation Gender Identity (SOGI) Inclusive Education in the Faculty, UBC and beyond in the next three years. The formal presentation will be followed by an opportunity for questions from the attendees. A video recording of the presentation will be made available for a brief period should you be unable to attend.
We encourage the Faculty of Education community, including all faculty, students, and staff, to attend the presentation and provide feedback to the Reappointment Committee before 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 8, 2022. Your feedback is important for the reappointment process. The feedback form will be circulated to attendees in advance of the presentation.
We hope to see you at the presentation.
A short biography of Dr. Keenan and his work is included below:
Dr. Harper B. Keenan was appointed as the inaugural Robert Quartermain Professor of Gender & Sexuality in Education at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Education in 2019. In this role, he leads SOGI-Inclusive Education in the Faculty, which aims to support self-determination in gender and sexuality within PK-12 schools. Spanning multiple disciplines, his scholarship analyzes what schooling, curriculum, and pedagogy teach children about how society is organized. Dr. Keenan’s work investigates the management – or scripting – of children and childhood, and ways that educators and their students might work together to interrupt that process and imagine something different. His current research projects study conditions that enable or foreclose gender self-determination for students and workers in PK-12 schools. Dr. Keenan’s work has been accepted for publication in peer-reviewed academic journals like Educational Researcher, Harvard Educational Review, Gender and Education, Teachers College Record, and Curriculum Inquiry, and has been featured or published in popular press outlets like Reuters, Slate, Teen Vogue, and NBC National News.
