Transtopia and the Narrative Thresholds of History

This is the second keynote address for the 2024 Trans Asia Graduate Student Conference (TAGS) and is sponsored by CEAS. Drawing from examples in the Sinophone Pacific, Prof. Howard Chiang (UC Santa Barbara) will discuss the programmatic contours and major interventions of a new keyword, transtopia, to theorize different scales of gender transgression that are not always discernible through the Western notion of transgender.