Department of Geography, Durham University, UK

Online Only

22 – 23 November 2023 13:30 – 18:30 UTC

Keynote Speakers: Cleo Wölfle Hazard and Kes Otter Lieffe

This virtual symposium brings together scholars working under the broad umbrella of Trans Ecologies, to give form and direction to this increasingly significant area of practice. The event aims not only to showcase current research at the forefront of this emerging field, but to hold space for collective critical reflection and forward thinking about the stakes and implications of trans ecologies for critical research across disciplines.

*** Registration for the symposium will close on Wednesday 15 November, 17:00 GMT ***

Event Information

In recent years, trans and queer scholarship has not been content to limit itself to investigating and documenting LGBTQ+ subjects and communities. Instead, this scholarship has challenged scholars in a range of disciplines to think critically about what queer and trans sensibilities and perspectives – along with a study of the social mechanisms that regulate and produce sex, gender, and sexuality – can teach us about broader societal questions regarding the nature of subjectivity and social structuration. In their dissolution of taxonomic and normative boundaries, trans ecologies provoke us to think the social as operating and moving through and across seemingly bounded bodies, identities, and categories.

This symposium seeks to bring together scholars working in a trans ecological mode in an extended facilitated conversation, with the aim of cultivating, developing and refining a shared sense of priorities, possibilities, hopes, desires, and future directions.

With keynote sessions from Cleo Wölfle-Hazard and Kes Otter Lieffe, the programme offers parallel sessions across the two half-days. Four panel sessions will explore, respectively, more-than-human intimacies, ecologies of land and connection, ecologies of the built environment, and ecologies of creativity and play. Running parallel to these panels is a creative and exploratory series of workshops, performance, and arts-based discussion.

The symposium is designed to facilitate participation, and we encourage you to attend for as much of the programme as is practicable, in order to build meaningful conversation over the two days.

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