We are delighted to announce that the Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)’s 2nd Annual Symposium will take place on the 21st and 22nd of November 2025 in Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with Outburst Queer Arts Festival and the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s.These exciting collaborations demonstrate the resistance of both T*RAI and trans studies to clear or unwavering geographic, political and cultural boundaries and borders. In addition, this symposium furthers the inter/cross-disciplinary nature of TRAI’s work by embedding the symposium within the rich, innovative and exceptional series of events programmed by Outburst Arts alongside the queer, feminist and decolonial academic practices of the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s.

This two-day symposium will bring together international scholars, artists, writers and activists from across, between and against disciplines, all of whom are committed to research on transness and/or Irishness, broadly conceived.