Moving Trans History Forward 2025

Call for proposals

Apply NOW to present at the international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational MTHF conference hosted by the Chair in Transgender Studies.

Call for proposals

Visit the Transgender Archives

Visit the Transgender Archives at UVic while you attend the Moving Trans History Forward conference!  Check out our "Visit Us" page for details and more information.

Visit the Transgender Archives

March 27–30, 2025

The Moving Trans History Forward conference is a biennial, international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational conference presented by UVic's Chair in Transgender Studies. 

The 2025 edition of the conference will be offered in a hybrid format, taking place both in person at the University of Victoria's NEW Conference Centre, Sŋéqə ʔéʔləŋ (Sngequ House), and online March 27–30, 2025 (#MTHF25). 

Join community activists, academics, artists, and allies from around the globe for the sixth Moving Trans History Forward conference, among the largest of its kind. Share your voice and your history. Learn from others. Grow together. Make history!

The Moving Trans History Forward conferences are not just for scholars, or just for community people. MTHF conferences are a unique blend that create opportunities for cross-fertilization among members of the general public, students and faculty, artists, activists, Trans+ people, family members, allies, and service providers. These conferences address both our history and the crucial issues that impact us today and into the future—locally, nationally, and globally.

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.


Chair in Transgender Studies 

See more videos from the Introduction videos playlist on YouTube.

2023 Moving Trans History Forward 

See more videos from the Moving Trans History Forward 2023 playlist on YouTube.

2023 MTHF Concurrent Sessions 

See more videos from the MTHF23 Concurrent Sessions playlist on YouTube.

2023 MTHF Digital Posters 

See more videos from the MTHF23 Digital Posters playlist on YouTube.

2021 Moving Trans History Forward 

See more videos from the Moving Trans History Forward 2021 playlist on YouTube.

2018 Moving Trans History Forward

See more videos from the Moving Trans History Forward 2018 playlist on YouTube.

2016 Moving Trans History Forward

See more videos from the Moving Trans History Forward 2016 playlist on YouTube.

2014 Moving Trans History Forward

See more videos from the Moving Trans* History Forward 2014 playlist on YouTube.