International Symposium, “Transgender Questions: Body, Race and Identity”

Date: Sunday, 15 DEC, 2019 14:00-17:30
Venue: Room 304, Inter-Faculty Building 1, Ochanomizu University

 

Moderator

Ki-young Shin（Ochanomizu University）

Keynote Speaker

Susan Stryker （Presidential Fellow and Visiting Professor, Yale University） ‘How “Transgender” Travels: Thinking About Gender Variance in a Global Context’

Panel Moderator

Keiichiro Ishimaru（Ochanomizu University）

Panelists

Akiko Shimizu（Professor, the University of Tokyo） ‘Imported Hatred?: Japan’s Transphobic Feminism in Transnational Context’ Satoko Itani（Associate Professor, Kansai University） ‘On the ‘Feminist’ Discourse of Trans-exclusion from Sport’ Nael Bhanji（Assistant Professor, Trent University） ‘Troubling Trans: Necropolitics, Trans Bodies, and Genealogies of Governance’

Simultaneous interpretation available (English-Japanese)
Prior registration required  Registration Form: Closed (full) 
Admission Free

Organizer: Institute for Gender Studies (IGS), Ochanomizu University

Co-organizer: Professor Akiko Shimizu’s office (the University of Tokyo) , Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research: Queer Politics and Coalition/Coexistence of Diverse Bodies(16K13134)