A research seminar hosted by the Gender Institute and Spectrum, the LSE network for LGBT+ staff and friends
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Monday 8 December 2014
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6.30-7.30pm
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Room NAB.2.04, New Academic Building, LSE
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Speaker: Terence Kissack
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Chair and Respondent: Clare Hemmings
Many LGBTQ archives collect and make available erotic materials including magazines, ephemera, commercial and amateur photographs, personal writings, and objects such as sex toys and art. What are the challenges of acquiring and cataloguing the historical traces of sexual desire? How do researchers interpret them and how can they be used in exhibits and other public history work?
Terence Kissack, University of California, Berkeley, is the first academic to have written a history of homosexuality in the anarchist movement in the US. He highlights its importance for different individuals and communities, and makes a clear case for the importance of homosexuality in the history of anarchism, and social movements more generally.
Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory at the Gender Institute. Her main research contributions are in the field of transnational gender and sexuality studies. Her most recent book is Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory, and she is a member of the Feminist Review Collective.