I’m delighted to be able to announce the following event:
In the Archive(s) of Sexuality:
Collections / Metaphors / Activism
Thursday, 19 May 2016, 6.00pm
Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury (room tbc)
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A panel discussion featuring
Heike Bauer (Birkbeck) – ‘A Queer Suicide Archive’
Howard Chiang (Warwick) – ‘Archiving Peripheral Taiwan’
Rohit K. Dasgupta (Southampton) – ‘No femmes and vernaculars: reading the digital archives of queer desire in India’
Monalesia Earle (Birkbeck) – ‘Narrating the Gaps: Queer Women of Colour Archives’
Lesley Hall (Wellcome Trust, London) – ‘The Work of the Archivist’
Followed at 7.30pm by a drinks reception to celebrate the launch of
Sexology and Translation:
Cultural and Scientific Encounters Across the Modern World
Temple University Press, 2015
Edited by Heike Bauer
With contributions from Brian Baer, Heike Bauer, Howard Chiang, Peter Cryle, Kate Fisher, Jennifer Fraser, Jana Funke, Liat Kozma, Birgit Lang, Leon Rocha, Katie Sutton, Michiko Suzuki, James Wilper.
The event is part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016.
Sponsored by Birkbeck Gender & Sexuality (BiGS) and Temple University Press.
Click the link for a flyer: Panel and Book Launch.flyer.compressed-3
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