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SUMMARY:Calgary Institute for the Humanities 8th Annual LGBTQ2S+ Lecture
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Calgary Public Library\, UCalgary Alumn
 i\, and the Calgary Foundation\, and as part of Calgary Pride Week\, the Ca
 lgary Institute for the Humanities will host Dr. Howard Chiang\, University
  of California\, Santa Barbara\, who will be giving a talk titled “Decolo
 nizing Transgender History: The View from the Asia Pacific.”\n\nDr. Chian
 g’s work asks: Does Asia have a trans history? What does it mean to scrut
 inize the politics of transness in Chinese-speaking societies? This lecture
  challenges both the assumption that gender nonconforming figures did not e
 xist historically and the idea that the Western category of transgender del
 ivers the best framework for understanding their experience. To remedy some
  of the most salient flaws of historical inquiry\, this talk analyzes key e
 xemplars from the Sinophone Pacific in decolonial terms.\n\nDr. Howard Chia
 ng holds the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Uni
 versity of California\, Santa Barbara\, where he is also Professor of East 
 Asian Languages & Cultural Studies (by appointment)\, Professor of History 
 and Feminist Studies (by courtesy)\, and Director of the Center for Taiwan 
 Studies. He is the author of two award-winning monographs: After Eunuchs: S
 cience\, Medicine\, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia
  University Press\, 2018) and Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (Columbia
  University Press\, 2021). He is a laureate of the 2026 Dan David Prize in 
 History.\n\nhttps://www.visitcalgary.com/events/calgary-institute-for-the-h
 umanities-8th-annual-lgbtq2s-lecture\n\nhttps://events.ucalgary.ca/arts/cal
 gary-institute-humanities/event/521404-decolonizing-transgender-history-the
 -view-from-the
LOCATION:Calgary Public Library - Central\, 800 3 St Se\, Calgary\, Alberta
 \, T2G 2E7
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