The School of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the annual Southampton Stonewall lecture on Thursday 22 February at 18:00 on Avenue Campus.
“Why We Need Queer Kinship Now More Than Ever: Lessons from German History”
We are delighted to welcome Professor Jennifer Evans to speak at this event in the School of Humanities annual lecture series.
This lecture asks us to think about how the queer and trans past has often been drawn upon to make a series of claims about liberal democracy itself, including the place of identity in rights-based discourses of experience, policy and governance.
Jennifer Evans is Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is an authority on the history of sexuality, photography, social media and memory. Her recent books include The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke University Press); an edited volume with Shelley Rose (Berghahn Books) celebrating the life and writing of Jean Quataert; and a co-written monograph Holocaust Memory and the Digital Mediascape (Bloomsbury). She is currently overseeing a multi-year, multi-platform data project on the weaponization of history and hate in social media networks, and is also in the early stages of a new book entitled Photography and the Sexual Revolution: a Transnational Affair. She is co-curator of the New Fascism Syllabus and the German Studies Collaboratory.
Since 2012 the annual Southampton Stonewall Lecture has explored the rich heritage that is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) history. A key purpose is to educate contemporary audiences about the past while also promoting the University of Southampton’s commitment to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion.
This will be a hybrid event. Attendees can book to attend in-person at Avenue Campus or select a ticket to join online. Find out more and book your place.