Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Debating Homosexuality and Illicit Enrichment

November 13, 2025
4pm-6pm Humanities Quadrangle HQ276, 320 York Street Register here An ongoing conspiracy theory in Cameroon and neighboring Gabon associates the omnipresence of Freemasonry...

Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School

October 8, 2025
Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School Don Romesburg, California Polytechnic State University Wednesday, October 8, 5 pm, HQ 276 Romesburg will discuss his new...

Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition

January 8, 2025
Marie-Amélie George, Wake Forest University School of Law Thursday, February 6, 5 pm, HQ 134 Marie-Amélie George shows how national legal change resulted from shifts at the...

Civil Rights and Moral Wrongs: An Ambivalent History of Race and Sexuality after World War II

November 20, 2024
Jennifer Dominque Jones University of Michigan Wednesday, November 20, 2024 4:30 pm  HQ136

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

September 26, 2024
In the Shadow of Diagonis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life A panel discussion of Regina Kunzel’s new Book Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 5pm HQ 134 Moderator: Joanne...

Authoritarian Europe and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality A Panel Discussion

February 1, 2024
Authoritarian Europe and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality A Panel Discussion Thursday, February 1, 5 pm HQ 276 Dagmar Herzog (CUNY Graduate Center) Camille Robcis (...

“The Unspeakable South: Sexual Violence and Antislavery Discourse in the Antebellum U.S.”

December 1, 2023
Thursday, January 18, 2024, at  5 pm, HQ 134 Caleb Knapp (Yale University)  “The Unspeakable South: Sexual Violence and Antislavery Discourse in the Antebellum U.S.”...