Committee on LGBT History Program for AHA 2015
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Symposium1681.html
Note: Since the AHA’s program deadline, a number of changes have been made to the Committee on LGBT History’s panels. The most current listing is below. Links to the AHA program do not reflect all changes.
Friday, January 2, 2015
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 1:
Queer Intimacies and the Remaking of Late Twentieth-Century American Politics
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session11553.html
Gramercy Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:/Comment: Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Topics:
Rethinking Lesbian Separatism as a Vibrant Political Theory and Feminist Practice
Julie Enszer, University of Maryland at College Park
The Female World of Love and New Possibilities: Same-Sex Intimacies and the Reimagination of 1970s American Public Life
David Palmer, New York University
“No One Needs to Know You’re Listening”: Bridging Suburb and City with Gay Radio in 1970s Detroit
Tim Retzloff, Michigan State University
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 2:
Beyond the Binary: Early America and the Writing of Trans* History
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session12177.html
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair: Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria
Panel:
Greta LaFleur, Yale University
Scott Larson, George Washington University
Sean Trainor, Pennsylvania State University
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 3:
Queer Movements: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Social Movement Era
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session11920.html
Conference Room E (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
Chair: Emily Thuma, University of California, Irvine
Topics:
The Seventies, Sexuality, and the Profusion of Entangled Events
Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Making Space for Pauli Murray: Transformations in a Queer Politics and a Queer Life
Dayo Gore, University of California, San Diego
Left Out: Situating Stigma in U.S. Radical and Left Social Movement History
Christina B. Hanhardt, University of Maryland at College Park
Rules of the Craft: Apophasis and Occult Politics in the Gay Liberation Movement
Abram J. Lewis, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Saturday, January 3, 2015
8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Teaching Queer History (with the Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching)
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session12407.html
Concourse F (New York Hilton, Concourse Level)
Papers:
The Challenge of Teaching LGBT History
John A. D’Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Questions, Not Test Answers: Teaching LGBT History in Public Schools
Emily K. Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno; Felicia T. Perez, Los Angeles Unified School District
Incorporating the LGBT Past in High School History
Daniel Hurewitz, Hunter College, City University of New York
The California FAIR Education Act
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 4:
Historicizing the Image: The Queer Art of Photography
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session11907.html
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair: Kirsten Leng, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Papers:
The American Nuclear Coverup and a Rural Redlight District in Spain
John Howard, King’s College London
Queering Trans* History: Photography and the “Family Album,” 1970–90
Elspeth H. Brown, Centre for the Study of the U.S.
The Transnational Queer: Mail-Order Pornography and Queer Aesthetics during the Sexual Revolution
Jennifer Evans, Carleton University
Comment: Richard Meyer, Stanford University
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 5:
Criminalization and Queer History
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session12088.html
Conference Room B (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)
Chair/Comment: Jen Manion, Connecticut College
Topics:
Identity and Activism: The Effort to Repeal the Sodomy Laws in 1820s Britain
Charles J. Upchurch, Florida State University
“Trouble over Sex”: Racialized Gender Normativity and the Construction of Penal Sex-Segregation
Elias Vitulli, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Spotlight on the Prodigy: Narrating Peripheral Taiwan through Queerness and Criminality
Howard Chiang, University of Warwick
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 6:
Queering the Media: LGBTQ History, Television, and the Cyberqueer Archive
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session12112.html
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair/Comment: Damon R. Young, University of Michigan
Papers:
Queer Talk: Alan Bennett and BBC TV in the 1980s
Amy Villarejo, Cornell University
Video Renegades and Lesbian TV “Broadcasting” in 1990s France
Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Re-Mediation and Ephemerality in Queer Historiography
Hollis Griffin, Denison University
12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Committee on LGBT History Membership Meeting
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 7:
Science and Sexuality: Mental Health and Homosexuality in Post-1973 America
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session11442.html
Murray Hill Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair/Comment: Susan K. Cahn, University at Buffalo (State University of New York)
Papers:
Sexuality, Therapeutic Culture, and Family Ties in Modern America
Debbie Weinstein, Brown University
Science, Compassion, and Ex-gay Ministries: Understanding the Logic of Antigay Activism in the 1970s
Emily Suzanne Johnson, University of Tennessee
The Science of Rights: Medical Authority in Lesbian Mother Custody Cases
Marie-Amelie George, Yale University
Queer Preposterousness; or, How to Do Temporally Disoriented History
Mathias Danbolt, University of Copenhagen
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 8:
Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: Desiring Bodies, Practices, and Histories
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session12029.html
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair/Comment: Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
Topics:
Willies Bully: Reflections on the Photographic Representation of Young Male Social and Sexual Violence
Jordy Jones, independent scholar
Queering Public History in a New National Landmark
Michelle McClellan, University of Michigan; Andrea Rottmann, University of Michigan
Business First, Gay Second: The Greater Seattle Business Association, Gay Pride Parades, and the Gentrification of Seattle’s Capitol Hill, 1981-1991
Kevin McKenna, University of Washington Seattle
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
CLGBTH/CCWH Reception
Concourse B (New York Hilton, Concourse Level)
Sunday, January 4, 2015
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 10:
Racialized Queer Pasts in Literature and Letters
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair/Comment: Roderick Ferguson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Papers:
Facts and Fictions
Shelly Conner, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Dear Doctor Kinsey”: Letters to Kinsey about Queer Female Desire in the Postwar United States
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
“Creative Empowerment”: Other Countries Collective and Black Gay AIDS Activism in New York City
Darius Bost, San Francisco State University
2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Toward a Global History of Sexual Science, c. 1900-70, Part 1:
Global Transfers of Sexual Knowledge: Dubbing, Appropriations, and Translations (with the Conference on Latin American History and the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia)
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session11805.html
Murray Hill Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair: Veronika Fuechtner, Dartmouth College
Papers:
The Rise of Global Scientia Sexualis: Dubbing and the Epistemologies of Sexual Science throughout the World, c. 1900
Pablo E. Ben, San Diego State University
The “Ellis Effect”: Translating Sexual Science in Republican China, 1911–49
Douglas E. Haynes, Dartmouth College
Translating Havelock Ellis in Republican China, 1910s–1940s
Rachel Hui-Chi Hsu, Johns Hopkins University
Comment: Howard Chiang, University of Warwick
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 11:
Narratives of Knowing: Telling Queer Lives
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session12281.html
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair: Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado
Papers:
“As Natural as Breathing”: Butch-Femme Subjectivity in Postwar America
Alix Genter, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Plagued Memory: AIDS and the Telling of the 1970s
Katie Batza, University of Kansas
“My Music Is All Little Queer Things”: Analyzing Memoirs and Case Studies of African American Women Performers Who Loved Women, 1915–40
Cookie Woolner, Case Western Reserve University
Transgender Lives: Decentering Narratives of Discovery in the Nineteenth Century
Jesse Bayker, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Comment: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Monday, January 5, 2015
8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Toward a Global History of Sexual Science, c. 1900-70, Part 2:
Sexual Science as a Global Formation: The Multi-directionality of Intellectual Exchange (with the Conference on Latin American History and the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia)
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session11850.html
Sutton Center (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair: Douglas E. Haynes, Dartmouth College
Papers:
Freud, the Global Sexual Scientist
Veronika Fuechtner, Dartmouth College
Normalizing the Deviant: Mexican Sexology and Homosexuality, 1860–1960
Ryan Jones, State University of New York at Geneseo
International Networks across the Atlantic: Latin Eugenics and Sexual Knowledge in Italy and Argentina, 1916–46
Chiara Beccalossi, Oxford Brookes University
Comment: Chris Waters, Williams College
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 12:
Pragmatism and Audacity: Disrupting the Boundaries of Queer Identities, Cultures, and Politics through Oral Histories
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session11760.html
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair/Comment: Daniel Hurewitz, Hunter College, City University of New York
Papers:
Uncovering Queer Voices in New Mexico through the Process of Oral History
Jordan Biro, University of New Mexico
A Contested Vision: California Lesbian Feminisms and Telling Queer Stories through Oral Histories
Chelsea Del Rio, University of Michigan
11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Toward a Global History of Sexual Science, c. 1900-70, Part 3:
Local Sexologies in a Global Context (with the Conference on Latin American History and the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia)
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session11855.html
Nassau Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair: Ryan Jones, State University of New York at Geneseo
Papers:
“Forms So Attenuated That They Merge into Normality Itself”: Alexander Lipschütz, Gregorio Marañón, and Theories of Intersexuality in Chile, c. 1930
Kurt MacMillan, University of California, Irvine
Sexual Deviance between Biological and Social Causation: International Approaches and Czechoslovak Sexology in the 1960s and 1970s
Katerina Liskova, Masaryk University
Time for Sex: Kaam-Discipline and the Conduct of Childhood in Global/Hindu Sexology
Ishita Pande, Queen’s University
Promiscuous Interdisciplinarity, Part 13:
Archives of Intimacy: Queer Affects and Cultural Imaginaries, 1970s–80s
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2015/webprogram/Session12091.html
Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor)
Chair/Comment: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago
Papers:
Healthy Desires: AIDS Activism and the Queer Transgressions of Safer Sex Videos
Karisa Butler-Wall, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
“Bugged by the Past”: Visiting the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Archives with Vicki Gabriner
Rachel Gelfand, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“It Takes all Kinds to Make a World”: Humor and Queer Representation on American Sitcoms, 1969–79
Sascha Elise Cohen, Brandeis University