Homosexuality and Scottish Culture 1880-1945

Join us in Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling on 18th June 2024 for 'Homosexuality and Scottish Culture 1885-1945'. This event brings together researchers working on queer sexualities in Scotland across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showcasing some of the exciting work that is currently developing in the field.

This is a ticketed event, but it is free to attend and fully catered. Ticket numbers are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

Schedule:

10-10:30 Coffee

10:30-10:40 Welcome

10:40 – 12:40 Panel 1. Chaired by Carole Jones (Edinburgh)

• Tanya Cheadle (Glasgow), 'Queerness in Scotland's progressive and occult subcultures, 1880-1914’
• Jeff Meek (Glasgow), ‘“The Mystery of the Damp Handkerchief”: Seminal Events in the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland’
• Timothy Baker (Aberdeen), ‘“Like two wind-swept saplings”: Scottish Lesbian Fiction 1927-1935’
• Domenico Di Rosa (Glasgow), ‘Unsettling Queer Orientations: De-idealising Modern Pederasty in John Henry Mackay's Sagitta's Books of the Nameless Love'

12:40-1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 Panel 2. Chaired by Gayle Davis (Edinburgh)

• Alison McCall (North East Genealogy Services), '"We were homosexuals then": Bessie Craigmyle and the Aberdeen High School for Girls’
• Sìm Innes (Glasgow), ‘“An curaidh gun mheang” (“The flawless hero”)?: Sir Hector MacDonald and Gaelic-language print media’
• Michael Shaw (Stirling), ‘“This is the Isle of Comrade-Love”: The Early Poetry of A. M. Davidson'

3:00-3:30 Coffee

3:30-5:00 Panel 3. Chaired by Claudia Sterbini (Edinburgh)

• Sam Rutherford (Glasgow), ‘“The Invisible and Impassable Line”? Queerness and Gender Crossing in Scottish Student Life, 1890–1939’
• Fiona Paterson (Glasgow), ‘Rachel Annand Taylor and Queer Femininities’
• Fraser Riddell (Durham), ‘Lady Archibald Campbell and the Pastoral Players: Aestheticism, Lesbian Spectatorship and Queer Amateurism at the Fin de Siècle’

5:00-5:20 Closing discussion

This event is funded as part of Dr Michael Shaw's Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship project, 'Homosexuality and the Scottish Periodical Press 1885-1928'.