12/12/2020 - Tricksters, Cross-Dressers: Transgender Identity and Politics, pre-20th century (Online)

The Global Institute for Research, Education & Scholarship is organising the International Conference "Tricksters, Cross-Dressers: Transgender Identity and Politics, pre-20th century".
Date of Conference: 12 December 2020

Cross-dressing and transgender identity in general remained for long in the shadow. It has been only recently that trans rights began to be widely discussed and researched across the academic world. The prevailing majority of existing research dealt mainly with issues and case studies emergent post-1900 – that is, rather recently in academic terms, and therefore, trans rights and related issues as a sphere of academic inquiry have sometimes been depicted as a “modern” concept. In this conference will be initiated a productive conversation on the notion of transgender identity as connected with the political world, pre-1900s so we find the roots and identify the history of this rich and long topic.