"Decolonizing Transgender History: Eunuchs, Renyao, and Adju" a lecture by Dr. Howard Chiang

The Program of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies presents: "Decolonizing Transgender History: Eunuchs, Renyao, and Adju," a lecture by Dr. Howard Chiang, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-Liu Endowed Chair in Tawan Studies and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies.
This talk uses the concept of “transtopia” in order to develop a new model of transness. Through three historical examples from the Sinophone Pacific—eunuchs, renyao, and adju — it challenges the assumption that gender nonconforming figures did not exist historically and the idea that the Western category of transgender delivers the best framework for understanding their experience.

Thursday, March 6th 12pm-1:30pm in Mather House, Rm 100
Light lunch will be served

Co-sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and the Departments of History and Religious Studies.

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