LGBT History Workshop Event

Date:: 20 February 2013
Venue:: Room 2115, Building 65 Avenue Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BF

Event details

The 3rd annual workshop

Below is the timetable for the day long LGBT History workshop. Synopses available in Useful Documents.

10:00 - ‘ Caged Song-Bird: The Queer Diary of a Stalin-Era Soviet Popular Singer ' Dan Healey (University of Reading)

11:00 - ‘ Embarrassed or Shameless? Sexualities and the Pet Shop Boys from It's A Sin to Alan Turing' Eve Colpus

12:00 - ‘Towards a Gay Anglo-Jewish History? ' Tony Kushner

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - ‘"Be My Lennon": LGBT Bournemouth and the Beatles' James Cole

15:00 - ‘ Queering Holocaust Memory: Aimee und Jaguar and the Representation of the Third Reich' Neil Gregor

16:00 - ‘New York versus San Francisco: Gay American Poets and the Politics of Group Identity' Peter Middleton

17:00 - Round-table conclusion: Julie Gammon, Joan Tumblety, Mark Cornwall

Workshop synopses document available in Useful Documents (on the right).

All welcome to attend the whole workshop or attend individual sessions. Talks start on the hour and last 35-40 then followed by a discussion.

Professor Dan Healey ,University of Reading,Professor of History

Dr Eve Colpus,Lecturer in British and European History post 1850

Professor Tony Kushner,Marcus Sieff Professor of the History of Jewish/non Jewish Relations

Professor Neil Gregor,Director of Programmes

Professor Peter Middleton,Professor