On Thursday 18 February Professor Elise Chenier will deliver the fifth annual Stonewall Lecture at Avenue Campus.
The Southampton Stonewall Lecture is the leading University lecture devoted to LGBT history and studies.
The topic of Elise’s lecture will be ‘Lesbian Life Stories: Stuck in the Past? On the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimonies’.
The lecture will explore lesbian life-experience as captured in three decades of oral histories.
Professor Chenier will also explain why ‘lesbian’ still remains a useful category of analysis, as life stories continue to play a key role in constructing the LGBT community.
Professor Chenier is a leading historian of sexuality and oral history. She is founder of the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony, an open-access digital archive, and has conducted pioneering research on lesbian voices from prison.
Previous notable speakers have included Professor George Chauncey and Professor Laura Doan.
The lecture is free and open to all. Please visit the Online Store to reserve your place at the lecture, or email Tracy Storey.
For more information on LGBT research at the University, please visit the University website.