Transtopia: A Keyword for Our Century (Lecture by Prof. Howard CHIANG)

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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.

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)