Call for papers| Derrida Today Conference
The Derrida Today Conference, organized by the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, will be held from July 13 to 17, 2026.
It will focus on the relationship between trans studies and Derrida's work; in particular, it will explore Derrida's influence on past and present trans studies, offer trans responses to Derrida's deconstructions of sex-gender, and share “transdeconstructive” readings and interpretations.
Papers and panel proposals are welcome from academics, independent scholars, and graduate students.
Proposals covering the following topics are welcome, although they need not be limited to them:
- Trans embodiment: technicity, plasticity, drugs
- Trans-of-color deconstructions of race and gender
- Hospitality, hostility, and the territorialization 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.
- Phallogocentrisms and cisnormativity in psychoanalysis
- Derrida's gendered figures (hymen, khora, etc.)
- Geschlect: sexual difference(s) in Derrida's regard for Heidegger
- The autoimmunity of anti-trans movements.
Proposals must include a title and abstract (350 words).
Abstracts should be sent to the following email address: chrisgriffingbrighton@gmail.com
Deadline: December 5, 2025.
Further information is available in the attached poster.
