Transtopia: A Keyword for Our Century (Lecture by Prof. Howard CHIANG)
| Date(s) | Friday, 6 September 2024, 9:00-10:30 JST |
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| Venue |
Zoom Webinar (Register here) |
| Registration | Pre-Registration Required |
| Language | English (Japanese interpretation) |
| Abstract |
This lecture is part of Queer and Feminist Movements in Asia Series – Exploring the Possibility of Queering the Boundaries of “Asia.”
As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard CHIANG proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum. |
| Program |
Lecture Howard CHIANG (Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies and Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Discussion Tokyo College’s “Mobility & Connectivity” and “Gender, Sexuality & Identity” research group members
Q&A
Moderators Iris ISSEN (Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo) Shannon WELCH (Project Researcher, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo) |
| Organized by | Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo |
| Contact | tokyo.college.event@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
