The seminar seeks to reinvigorate Trans Studies through the lens of a prefixial turn. In such an imagination, trans signifies a movement across, as well as a digression away from an unchosen starting point. Therefore, in the vein of the shifting contours of the Trans Studies scholarship, this seminar aims to include presentations that showcase a regard for the processes of trans-ing rather than conceptualising trans as a definitive point of arrival. 
Building upon the emergence of Trans Studies from the institutionalised domain of Gender and Sexuality Studies, while also pushing its academic boundaries further and differently, we are seeking presentations that examine how trans unsettles and reshapes notions of gender, sex, nation, and genre (literary-cultural and affective). The seminar will explore how trans-ing allows for unlikely solidarities across (con)texts. To this effect, paper presentations that retool a ‘trans’ orientation through their methodology (such as trans-disciplinary, and trans-media approaches) and key concepts (such as Giffney and Hird’s imagination of the non/human) will be welcomed.
This seminar will delve into the limits our orientations may pose to horizons of thinking, feeling, and living and what ‘trans’ may offer as a means to look beyond these. Key themes include (but are not limited to) the following :

• Temporalities of/and trans-ing
• Modes of narrative trans-ing
• Trans and/as spatial configuration(s)
• Migration, mobility and trans-ing
• Media and trans-ing  
• Trans-ing the ‘Human’