Moving Trans History Forward: Building Communities – Sharing Connections

From March 17 to 20, more than 150 community activists, academics, educators, artists and allies from the US, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Japan and Germany are attending Moving Trans History Forward: Building Communities – Sharing Connections at UVic to discuss the lives, medicalization and activism of trans and gender nonconforming people in the past and today—locally, nationally and around the world.

The symposium includes keynote speakers, panel presentations, workshops and a screening of the romantic comedy Two 4 One, as well as art exhibitions. The symposium will open with an address by UVic Chancellor Shelagh Rogers

UVic is home to the Transgender Archives, which represents 17 countries on five continents, more than a century of research and over 50 years of activism. In January 2016, the university also established the world’s only Chair in Transgender Studies.

Visit www.uvic.ca/mthf2016 for more information on the conference or to register. (Please note: registration closes March 13 at midnight PT.)