Queer and Trans History Now

The Queer and Trans History Now postgraduate symposium has been made possible through the generosity of Mansfield College, the Faculty of History’s Sanderson and Research Funds, WGIQ (Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity and Queer History) and Queerdom (Norway).

Programme of Events

Trans History Now

Abstracts

Day 1: Tuesday 18 June

9-11.30am	From 9am: Registration in Mansfield College, Junior Common Room (JCR) 9.30 -11:15am Queer Armenian Library Meet at Mansfield Porter’s Lodge at 9.15am Please sign up in advance with Ellie: eleanor.birch@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Venue	Mansfield College, Junior Common Room (JCR)	Seminar Room East
10.30-11.30am	Tea and coffee
11.30-12.30pm	Panel 1: 20th Century Trans History Chair: Pippa Catterall Brell Wilson-Morris, ‘Rethinking the sexual boundaries of 1970s American crossdresser culture: Fantasia Fair 1975-79’ Jo Brydon, ‘Lessons from Percy Grainger Towards a Musicological Trans History’ Victoria Mangan, ‘Jennie June’s Transition: On Trans Literary History’	Panel 2: Troubling identities Chair: Tone Hellesund Dr Amy Prescott, ‘”I was born a criminal”: Tracing the journey of LGBTQ+ individuals across their life-course’ Sue Lemos, ‘Becoming Visible’ in 1980s Britain: ‘Blacklesbians’, ‘Blackgays’, Zami, and what ‘the ancestors…[could not]…box up neatly’ Charles Gough, ‘Behold the dawn has yet to come’: Queer Eschatology and Futurity in The Diary of George Ives
12.30-1.30pm	Poster presentations Lunch provided
1.30-2.30pm	Panel 3: What can queer and trans bibliography do for queer and trans history? Chair: Jack Doyle Malcolm Noble, ‘Queer critical bibliography and queer kinship’ Sam Bailey, ‘Women and the Printing of Male-Male Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England’ Carlisle Yingst, ‘Miscellaneous Gender: Trans Bibliography and The Life of Mary Ann Talbot’	Panel 4: Queer Encounters Across Borders Chair: Peter Edelberg Ruby Clara Ellis, ‘”Two good illas sitting in the tree”: Queer playfulness in the letters of Olive Lloyd-Baker and Hedwig Schmidl, 1939-1964’ Ciara Hervas, ‘Surrealism and Sexology: Photographing Queer Embodiment and Desire in Interwar Paris and Berlin’ Srija Dutta, ‘Ventures in the East: The initial European interactions with the world of the eunuchs, concubines and the beloveds’
2.30-3pm	Tea and coffee
3-4pm	Panel 5: Black Queer Histories Chair: Jen Evans Xavier Reader, ‘The Queer South: Slavery and the regulation of sex in antebellum and early postbellum America’ Dr Gibson Ncube, ‘Hidden histories, painted pride: Desire Marea’s queer Zulu soldiers’ Klara Ismail, ‘Queer Histories of Censorship Evasion in Richard Bruce Nugent’s “Smoke, Lilies, and Jade”’
4.15-5.15pm	Roundtable discussion with the Chairs of today’s panels Chaired by Matt Cook
5.30-6.15pm	Refreshments
6.15-7.15pm	Queer Scandinavia A roundtable discussion of queer Scandinavian histories, their intersections and contrasts with Prof. Tone Hellesund (University of Bergen), Dr Peter Edelberg (University of Copenhagen), Runar Jordaen (Norwegian Queer [Skeivt] Archive) and Dr Helene Nilsen (University of Bergen) This session is open to the public Book your space

Day 2: Wednesday 19 June

9-11am	10-11am Pitt Rivers Trip: Colonialism, Indigenous histories of gender and activism Meet at Mansfield Porter’s Lodge at 9.45am Please sign up in advance with Ellie: eleanor.birch@pmb.ox.ac.uk	Workshop: 9.15 – 11.15 Seminar room east Building Community Across Time: Queer History and Creative Writing Workshop with Tomara Garrod Please sign up in advance with Ellie: eleanor.birch@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Venue	JCR	Seminar Room East
11-11.30am	Tea and coffee
11.30-12.30pm	Panel 6: Representation, identity and legacies Chair: George Severs Raphaela van Oers, ‘The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the South Wales Echo’ Charles West, ‘SebasXan: Saint and Sex Symbol’ Juan Pedro Navarro MarXnez, ‘Not just love: Views on sexual violence in sodomy trials in Early Modern Spain (17th-18th Centuries)’	Panel 7: European Queer and Trans History Chair: Glyn Davies Christoffer Koch Anderson, ‘A Trans History of Denmark: From Administrative Violence to Automated Erasure’ Soumyaseema Mandal, ‘“Let all the Women Come”: Historicising Queer Sexualities of Working- Class Women in Interwar Britain’ Kamil Karczenski, ‘A Forgotten Baltic Wave? A New History of the Decriminalisation of Homosexuality in Europe’
12.30-1.45pm	Poster presentations 1 – 1.45 Manchester University Press publishing talk	From 12.30: Lunch at the Rothermere American Institute (behind Mansfield College)
1.45-2.45pm	Panel 8: Queer Public History Chair: Meryem Kalayci Rían Kearney, ‘Graphite Gay Bars’ Sandro Weilenmann, ‘Collaboration x community: Queer and trans heritage making in transition’ Rachel Dutaud, ‘Obscene and Unnatural: Responses to British Censorship of Queer Literature, 1928-2024’	Panel 9: Queer Feminisms Chair: Maurice Casey Ellen Durban, ‘Lesbians and the Law: Restricting Lesbian Motherhood Outside the Nuclear Family in England and Wales: 1970-1999’ Baylee Woodley, ‘Pleasers and Parchment: Feeling Femme in the Archive’ Emily Cousens, ‘Putting the femme in feminist: The male lesbian and sex-positive trans lesbian feminism in the 1970s’ Giselle Bernard, ‘Transgressing Gendered, Sexual and Orientalist Boundaries in Urania (1916-1940): Reading a British Queer and Feminist Periodical in its Imperial Context’
2.45-3.15pm	Tea and coffee
3.15-4pm	Queer conversations: Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in England George Severs in conversation with Pippa Catterall
4.15-5.30pm	Roundtable discussion with the workshop leader and panel chairs. Chaired by Matt Cook Manchester University Press prize giving
6-7.30pm	Queer Public History A roundtable discussion exploring multiple dimensions and queer and trans public history now, with Silje Gaupseth (Polar Museum, Tromso), J.P. Der Boghossian (Queer Armenian Library), Prof. Pippa Catterall (chair of the AIDS Memorial Trust), Professor Glyn Davis (Perverse Collections), and Professor Jennifer Evan (Carleton University Canada). This session is open to the public Book your space
7.30-8.30pm	Wine reception and buffet Mansfield Old Hall

QUEERDOM in Oxford 2024

Day 3: Thursday 20 June

Queerdom presentations
Venue	Seminar Room East
9-9.30am	Romantic friendships and intercourse against nature – intimate relationships between women in Norway in the early 1800s
9.30-10am	Queer at Sea – Evaluating the reception of a Museum Exhibition
10-10.30am	Writing the cultural history of the Norwegian queer movement (1900-2000) — initial reflections
10.30-10.45am	Coffee and tea
10.45-11.15am	TBA
11.15-11.45am	Domesticities, 1974-2024
11.45-12.15pm	A microhistory of same sex love, punishment and benign inarticulacy in Trondheim, Norway 1916-1959
12.15-1.15pm	Two course lunch in Mansfield Chapel Dining Hall
1.15-1.45pm	Researching early Norwegian trans history
1.45-2.15pm	TBA
2.15-2.45pm	Challenging traditional museum narratives: queer perspectives on Roald Amundsen exhibitions
2.45-3.15pm	Queer voices from the years of German occupation of Norway 1940-1945
3.15-3.30pm	Tea and coffee
3.30-4.30pm	Plenary roundtable
7-9pm	*Formal Dinner* in Mansfield Old Hall

Day 4: Friday 21 June

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Programme of Events

Trans History Now

Day 1: Tuesday 18 June

Day 2: Wednesday 19 June

QUEERDOM in Oxford 2024

Day 3: Thursday 20 June

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