This workshop will explore the contours of TransQueer Studies as a transnational enterprise that engages issues of economic, political, cultural and linguistic difference in concert with critical reflections on the rapidly changing forms of sexual and gender difference across the planet.  Key questions will be the importance of the queering as well as the transing (crossing boundaries) of established ideas of nation, sexuality and gender in studying queer and transgender issues in this, the second decade of the 21st century.

Keynote speakers:

• Prof. Meaghan Morris (Sydney University) “Cultural Studies as a Transnational Enterprise”
• Prof. Raewyn Connell (Sydney University) “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”

JOINT SPONSORS:

• Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
• College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
• Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
• Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong
• Center for the Study of Sexuality, National Central University, Taiwan

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