Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History at the 2014 AHA in Washington, DC
Outing the Past: Queering History and Historicizing the Queer
Thursday, January 2, 2014: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Wilson Room B (Marriott Wardman Park)
Chair: Susan Freeman, Western Michigan University
Stephanie H. Gilmore, independent scholar
Catherine O. Jacquet, Macalester College
Colin R. Johnson, Indiana University Bloomington
Darnell L. Moore, Hetrick-Martin Institute
Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 1: Queering the Transnational History of HIV/AIDS
Thursday, January 2, 2014: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Virginia Suite (Marriott Wardman Park)
Chair: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago
James N. Green, Brown University, Revolutionary Reasoning: Herbert Daniel and the Genesis of New Ways to Think about AIDS in Brazil in the 1980s
Richard A. McKay, University of Cambridge, Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c. 1939–84
Mandisa Mbali, Stellenbosch University, The “International Coming-Out Party”: Transnational AIDS Activism in South Africa, 2000–04
Daniel Royles, University of Angers, Still Acting Up: Philadelphia AIDS Activism into the Twenty-First Century
Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 2: Scaling Queer Archives
Friday, January 3, 2014: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Maryland Suite A (Marriott Wardman Park)
Chair: Kevin Murphy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Edward Madden, University of South Carolina Columbia, The Irish Queer Archive: Institutionalization, Archival Practice, and Historical Narrative
G. Crichton, University of California, Santa Cruz, Archives in Motion / Delegates across Borders
Bonnie Morris, George Washington University, Archiving and Interpreting Lesbian Communities, 1975–99
Horacio Roque Ramírez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Archives of Sexual Crossings: The Meanings of Puerto Rican Topless Transgender Performer Vicki Starr
Comment: Kevin Murphy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The Queer Archival Turn?
Friday, January 3, 2014: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Madison Room B (Marriott Wardman Park)
Tavia Nyong’o, New York University
Zeb Tortorici, New York University
Pete Sigal, Duke University
Christina B. Hanhardt, University of Maryland at College Park
Benjamin Arthur Cowan, George Mason University
Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 3: The Personal Is the Political Is the Locational: Reassessing Queer North American History
Friday, January 3, 2014: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Madison Room B (Marriott Wardman Park)
Chair: Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
Stephen Vider, Harvard University, “Piss-Elegant Queen”: Real Estate and the “Homosexual Bourgeoisie” in Postwar Manhattan
Kwame Holmes, University of Virginia, What’s The T?: Rumor, Gossip, and Black Queer Historiography in a Chocolate City
Thomas Winfield Hafer, City University of New York, Graduate Center, The Bohemian Challenge to Gay Liberation, 1960-75
Marc Stein, York University, Canada and Canadians in the “U.S.” Homophile Press
Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “Crimes that Changed the LGBT World”: Claiming Kitty Genovese as a Queer Icon
Comment: The Audience
Historicizing the Queerness of Childhood
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Truman Room (Marriott Wardman Park)
Chair: Richard Godbeer, University of Miami
Greta LaFleur, Yale University, “That Cursed School Wickedness of Masturbation”: Childhood Pedagogies of Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century North America
Jen Manion, Connecticut College, Transgender Tendencies in Antebellum Children’s Literature
Brian Connolly, University of South Florida at Tampa, The Sex of “Hindoo” Children: Religion and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado, Girls’ Sexuality and Narratives of Exploitation in Early Twentieth-Century Teen Marriages
Comment: Richard Godbeer, University of Miami
Queer Margins and American Youth
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Columbia Hall 7 (Washington Hilton)
Chair: Gillian Frank, Princeton University
Joey Plaster, Yale University, Vanguard Revisited: Queer Ritual and World Making in the Tenderloin
Daniel W. Rivers, Ohio State University, The Children of 1969: Growing up in Queer Cultures of the 1970s
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University, Queer Margins in Early Twentieth-Century Domestic and Pedagogic Places
Comment: Gillian Frank, Princeton University
#ALTAC-Q: LGBTQ Historical Scholarship and Alternative Academic Careers
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Johnson Room (Marriott Wardman Park)
Chair: Alexandra M. Lord, Ultimate History Project
Christianne Gadd, Lehigh University
Shane Landrum, Florida International University
Ian K. Lekus, South Asian Arts Council
Bonnie Morris, George Washington University
Comment:Christina B. Hanhardt, University of Maryland at College Park
Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 4: Governmentality and LGBT Lives
Chair: David Serlin, University of California, San Diego
Steve Estes, Sonoma State University, The Dream That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Civil Rights Rhetoric and the Fight for Gay Military Service
Amy Harris, Purdue University, Same-Sex Marriage and the Construction of Citizenship in Contemporary South Africa
Anita A. Kurimay, Bryn Mawr College, The Politics of Archives and the Fraught History of Queer Hungary
Emily E. Skidmore, Texas Tech University, Migrants, Miscreants and Model Citizens: Female-Bodied Men and Immigration Politics, 1901-18
Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 5: Localizing LGBT Politics in Activism, Affect, and Exchange
Sunday, January 5, 2014: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Truman Room (Marriott Wardman Park)
Chair: Vicki L. Eaklor, Alfred University
Katie Batza, Macalester College, Oppression, Sickness, and the State: Conflicting Forms of Resistance in 1970s Los Angeles
Kevin McKenna, University of Washington, Queer Liberalism, Direct Democracy, and Political Strategies: Debates in the Fight against Seattle’s Initiative 13 and the Evolution of Civil Rights Liberalism
Monica Smith, National University of Singapore, Stepping Out of Bounds in a Globalizing World: Sri Lankan Diaspora in Lebanon, Same-Sex Desire, and Transgenderism
Comment: Vicki L. Eaklor, Alfred University