Call for panelists - Trans Studies Panel: The 9th Derrida Today Conference

CALL FOR PANELISTS

Trans Studies at the 9th Derrida Today Conference (July 2026, Paris)

This panel will explore the relationship between Trans Studies (broadly defined) and deconstruction/Derrida Studies. The aim is to allow scholars of any discipline to assess the salience of Derrida's work for Trans Studies today; investigate the influence of Derrida in Trans Studies (and related fields) past and present; offer trans responses to Derridean deconstructions of sex-gender; share "transdeconstructive" readings and interpretations; and so on.

Possible topics might include (but are by no means limited to):

• Trans embodiment: technicity, plasticity, drugs, etc.
• Trans-of-colour deconstructions of race and gender
• Hospitality, hostility, and the territorialisation of "woman"
• Deconstruction and poststructuralism in transfeminist theory
• Transing the boundary of the human: animals, beasts, monsters, etc.
• Decolonial and postcolonial deconstructions of sex-gender
• Drag and genderqueerness in Glas/Clang, and beyond
• Transnational approaches to borders, sovereignty, etc.
• Phallogocentrism and cisnormativity in psychoanalysis
• Derrida's gendered figures (hymen, khōra, etc.)
• Geschlecht: sexual difference(s) in Derrida's reading of Heidegger
• The autoimmunity of anti-trans movements

Please send an abstract of no more than 350 words to Christopher Griffin ([email protected]) by Friday 28 November. If you have any questions, or wish to discuss ideas in advance, please email me.

About the conference

The 9th Derrida Today Conference will be held at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France) on 13th to 17th of July, 2026. Confirmed keynotes:

• Isabelle Alfandary (Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle) 
• Marc Crépon (École Normale Supérieure) 
• David Farrell Krell (De Paul University) 
• Elissa Marder (Emory University)

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