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)