- Sponsor
- Department of English
- Registration
- Register here
- Contact
- Toby Beauchamp
- Originating Calendar
- Life of the Mind
The Big Ten Trans Studies Initiative presents a research symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on March 27 and 28, 2026.
Please register for location info and details.
Schedule of Events
Friday, March 27
4:00 pm
Opening plenary featuring Illinois' past and present Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellows in Trans Studies:
- Dr. Emi Frerichs (Illinois)
- Prof. Sawyer K. Kemp (Queens College)
- Prof. Ava L.J. Kim (UC Davis)
- Dr. Adrian King (Illinois)
Reception to follow
Saturday, March 28
Concurrent panels featuring scholars from across the Big Ten institutions
9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Trans Literature and the Arts
- Trans Sports Studies
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
- Self-Publishing and Trans Life in Print
- Archives and Genealogies
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
- The Politics of Visibility
- Trans Methods and Field Development
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Activism and Resistances
This event is sponsored by the Big Ten Academic Alliance, College of LAS, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, School of Information Sciences, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.