Tokyo College Event “Transtopia: A Keyword for Our Century”
Details
| Type | Lecture |
|---|---|
| Intended for | General public / Enrolled students / Applying students / International students / Alumni / High school students / University students / Academic and Administrative Staff |
| Date(s) | September 6, 2024 09:00 — 10:30 |
| Location | Online |
| Entrance Fee | No charge |
| Registration Method | Advance registration required
Zoom Webinar https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pkbz5SqKTuu7O2cYu1M9eA#/registration |
| Registration Period | August 28, 2024 — September 6, 2024 |
| Contact | tokyo.college.event@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Abstract
This lecture is part of the 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
LectureHoward CHIANG (Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies and Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Q&A
Moderators
Iris ISSEN (Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)
Shannon WELCH (Project Researcher, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)
