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SUMMARY:Everybody’s History of Sexuality - Colin Johnson (Indiana Univer
 sity)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251023T114500
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251023T124500
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DESCRIPTION:Almost four decades ago\, theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ident
 ified an epistemological tension between what she characterized as ‘mino
 ritizing’ tendencies where conceptualizations of sexuality are concerned
 \, and ‘universalizing’ ones.  For historians of sexuality\, this insi
 ght has been enabling in several ways\, including helping to clarify the s
 takes in longstanding debates between those who are committed to historici
 zing the emergence of lesbian\, gay\, bisexual and queer consciousness\, i
 ncluding transgender consciousness\, and those who remain suspicious of id
 entitarianism as such.  This talk considers what other lessons Sedgwick’
 s work might still have to teach historians of gender and sexuality today\
 , particularly at a moment when it feels as if minoritized subjects of all
  sorts are being scapegoated around the world by reactionary movements who
 se adherents would love nothing more than to have attention drawn away fro
 m their own festering insecurities\, disappointment-fueled resentments\, k
 inks (because we’ve all got them\, even if they’re banal)\, and occasi
 onal (or frequent) lapses in judgement.  In other words\, how do we write 
 the stories of history’s gendered and sexual “underdogs\,” to borrow
  a term from Heather Love\, without allowing everybody else\, including al
 l the “everybody elses” the underdogs regularly had sex with\, to esca
 pe from view?\nSpeakers:\nColin Johnson (Indiana University)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Observatory (History Seminar Room\, Schwarzman Centre)
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/7359999d-84f7-4bc4-b36f-e05ebe60801a/
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