Trans Politics: Scholarship and Strategies for Social Change

TRANS POLITICS: SCHOLARSHIP AND STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

The Spring Colloquium at the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, NJ.

Keynote Speakers:
Dean Spade, Seattle University
Pauline Park, New York based Gender Rights Advocate
Genny Beemyn and Sue Rankin, co-authors of The Lives of Transgender People

Also featuring panels on:

* Transnational Transgender Politics
* Transforming Healthcare
* The Eyes of the State: Trans Incarceration, Criminalization and Surveillance
* Affects and Ecologies of Trans Post Humanism
* Law and Policy in the US: ENDA and Beyond.

With Sima Shakhsari, Justus Eisfeld, Hua Boonyapisomparn, Ben Singer, Kim Watson, Sel Hwahng, SharRon Cooks, Toby Beauchamp, Nora Butler-Burke, Jeanne Vaccaro, Eva Hayward, Jian Chen, Kylar Broadus, Marcia Ochoa and Reina Gossett.

ALL EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Full program here: http://irw.rutgers.edu/programs/current.html

Co-sponsored by: The Tyler Clementi Center, the Office of the Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Associate Campus Dean of Douglass, Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes, Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, Douglass Campus Dean, Department of American Studies, Department of History, Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium, Program in Comparative Literature, School of Communication and Information, Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Department of Anthropology.