Provisional programme for the free day of talks on LGBT History on Sunday 12th February 2017 at Exeter Phoenix – see more details here.
We are asking people to book for the (FREE) keynote talk only – please book here. All other talks on Sunday 12th are not ticketed – please just drop in!
Event opens 11am for visiting stalls by local organisations and groups in the foyer.
VENUE | Dance Studio | Drama Studio |
11.30-12.00 | Jon Evans (University of Portsmouth) & Ting Guo (University of Exeter) – Translating for Change: Underground Queer Cinema and LGBT activist translators in China | Michael Halls (Intercom Trust) – How the grassroots shaped the landscape |
12.00-12.30 | Dominic Janes (Keele University) – Cartooning queers from the Georgian dandies to Oscar Wilde | John Vincent (The Network) – Flicking back the pages … |
12.30-13.00 | Jack Sargent (University of Exeter) – Oscar Wilde’s Grindr Profile: What Can Digital Dating Offer a Nineteenth-century Decadent? | Surat-Shaan Knan (Liberal Judaism) – Twilight People: Stories of Faith and Gender Beyond the Binary |
13.00-14.00 | LUNCH BREAK (self-funded)
Please remember to visit the Twilight People exhibition at the Central Library! |
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14:00 -14.30 | Tony Fenwick (Schools OUT) – From Gay Teachers to OUTing the Past: a Brief History of Schools OUT UK. | |
14.30-15.00 | Robert Howes – Opening the public sphere to LGBT issues in the Bristol region, 1980-2000 | Laura Rowe (University of Exeter) – Sex at Sea: Homosexuality and the Royal Navy in the Great War |
15.00-15.30 | Peter Scott-Presland (The Campaign for Homosexual Equality) – Punting with Pride | Caroline Paige – True Colours: Trailblazing Transgender Service in the Military |
15.30-16.00 | Darienne Flemington and Mark Kelly (UNISON) – Out and Proud in Trade Unions | Cheryl Morgan (OutStories Bristol) – Chosen of the Goddess: Trans Women in the Ancient World |
16.00-16.30 | SHORT BREAK | |
VENUE | Studio 74 (Cinema) | |
16.30-17.30 | KEYNOTE: Diana Souhami – Gluck, Radclyffe Hall, Violet Trefusis and other Notable Lesbians |