OPENING SEMINAR: 2.00pm to 3.30pm, Collin Matthew Room
Alison Oram, Professor of Social and Cultural History, Leeds Beckett University
Pride of Place: The intellectual and political challenges of a queer public history project
Alison Oram is Professor of Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett University. She has published extensively on queer history and heritage including “Her Husband Was A Woman!” Women’s Gender-Crossing and Modern British Popular Culture (London: Routledge, 2007). In 2015-16 she led ‘Pride of Place: England’s LGBTQ Heritage’, a consultancy project for Historic England. She is currently co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘Queer Beyond London: Sexualities and Localities 1965-2013’.
3.30-3.45: Coffee and tea [room TBA]
OXFORD DPHIL WORK IN PROGRESS: 3.45pm – 4.45pm, Collin Matthew Room
Emma Day: The Art of Activism: AIDS Crisis Theatre and Rights Activism in the United States, 1980-2016
Maurice Casey: ”Gay Liberation through National Liberation” Radical Politics and the Movement for Gay Rights in Ireland, 1973-1990
KEYNOTE LECTURE: 5pm – 6.45 pm, Lecture Theatre, History Faculty
PROF DAGMAR HERZOG
Queering Freud Differently: Radical Psychoanalysis between Anthropology and Antihomophobia
Dagmar Herzog is a historian of sexuality and Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of five books, including Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005) and Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (2011) as well as, most recently, Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (2016). She is currently beginning a new project in the history of disability, entitled Unlearning Eugenics in Post-Nazi Europe.