Trans Disruptions: The Future of Change
April 3 - 5, 2024
Columbia University
This three-day conference will bring together activists, theorists, artists, and writers to explore the pasts, futures, and in-between times of transgender lives, narratives, and theories. The conference will allow an opportunity to meet, talk, learn, and disrupt the conventional narratives that circulate about bodies, economies, histories, pleasure, revolt, and science.
Panels include: Trans Poetry | Media Studies & Gaming Cultures | Trans Structures & Systems | Trans Histories | Trans in The Global South | Trans Abolition | Trans Narrative
Keynote Conversations by Paul Preciado, Marquis Bey, Jack Halberstam, Jules Gill-Peterson, and a Reading by Torrey Peters (Author of Detransition, Baby)
Presented in Partnership Between: The Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender and Columbia University’s Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, the Division of the Humanities, the Department of English & Comparative Literature, the Institute for Religion, Culture, & Public Life, the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, & African Studies, Film & Media Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, the School of the Arts at Columbia University, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Department of History, the Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women
*This event has received an exemption from the boycott of University events by the organizers of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) group*
