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Guest Lecture "Approaching Transracialism. A Gender Studies Perspective"

The Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, CU cordially invites you to a guest lecture by Dr. Peta Hinton from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. The lecture will be held in Veleslavín on Thursday 12 December 2019 from 14:15 to 15:45.

If someone can change gender, can someone change race? In this lecture we will look at the contentious issue of transracialism in the context of this question to ask what it could mean to claim transracial identity and what sort of ethical and political considerations arise from this. Thinking first about the way that gender and race work together, we will pick up with a recent example of transracial identity - the case of Rachel Dolezal - to examine debates around transracialism and to formulate responses to it. Enduring questions about identity come to light in this discussion as it opens the lid on the notion that ‘race is a social construct’ and foregrounds the instability of identity categories.

Peta Hinton works in the fields of feminist political theory and the new materialisms as they work to challenge 'normative' iterations of politics, ethics, and time that underscore how we understand difference and craft interventions for social justice and change. She currently teaches in the social sciences program at the University of New South Wales.