2016-2017 Events

Thursday, October 13

Anastasia Jones

Sapphists Tie the Knot: Female Homosexuality and Companionate Marriage in U.S. Interwar Culture

HGS 217A, 5 pm

Thursday, November 3

Jen Manion, Amherst College

Against “Passing”:  Language and Identity in Early American Transgender Histories

HGS 211, 5 pm

Thursday, December 1  

Symposium: Queering Science

Steven Epstein, Northwestern University

Laura Mamo, San Francisco State University  

Cindy Patton, Simon Fraser University

Lindsay Zafir, Yale University, moderator

HGS 211, 5 pm

Day-long closed workshop with our speakers on Friday, HGS 204

Thursday, February 9

Jennifer Dominique Jones, University of Alabama

“Run With the Race”: SCLC/ W.O.M.E.N. Inc. and Ambivalent Approaches to HIV/AIDS, 1986-1993

HGS 211, 5 pm

Thursday, February 23

Symposium: Pink Perils: Anti-Gay Politics in Twentieth-Century Europe

Jennifer Evans, Carleton University

Dan Healey, University of Oxford

David Paternotte, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Wannes Dupont, Yale University, moderator

HGS 211, 5 pm

Day-long closed workshop with our speakers on Friday, HGS 204

Thursday, March 30

Lorenzo Benadusi, University of Bergamo

Italian Fascism, Masculinity, and Homosexuality

WLH 309, 5 pm