This seminar seeks to reimagine Trans Studies through the lens of a prefixial turn, where trans signifies a movement across, as well as a digression away from an unchosen starting point. Presenters are urged to negotiate the limits such given points of departure pose to our horizons of thought and emotion.

In the vein of changing Trans Studies scholarship, this seminar shall prioritize a regard for the processes of trans-ing rather than conceptualising trans as a point of arrival. Building upon the emergence of Trans Studies from Gender and Sexuality Studies, while also pushing its scope further and differently, we shall look at how trans unsettles and reshapes notions of gender, sex, genre (literary-cultural and affective), discipline, nation, and what counts as ‘human’ through its prefixial encounters with these categories.

This seminar shall explore how trans-ing may allow us to form unlikely solidarities and build relationality across (con)texts. To this effect, papers 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) are also welcome. Please send abstracts of 250-300 words by 30 September 2025 at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21779. In case of acceptance, full papers are expected to be circulated for discussion among the panel a month before the presentation date (between 5 and 8 March, 2026). The seminar will be conducted remotely as part of the 2026 NEMLA Convention.