Seminar: Queer Objects

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The Queer Objects seminar is hosted by the Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality group.
Speakers: Chris Brickell, Alison Oram, Robert Mills, and Lukasz Szulc. This event is chaired by Matt Cook. 
Queer lives, like all lives, involve a range of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the traces of the past we throw out or treasure, the books and images we share with our friends, the commodities we consume in our work and leisure spaces, the things we wear, and the technologies we use to communicate with one another. Queer Objects, an international edited collection to be published in 2019, asks: what makes an object queer? While some everyday objects tell of queer lives – household bric-a-brac, the house itself, cameras and diaries – other objects reflect modes of social control: evidence found in court files, for instance. Still other objects are generated by movements for queer activism that produce objects of social change: the badge, the banner and the newsletter. This seminar examines the role of diverse objects and the ways they take their place in queer networks, whether individually or as part of wider assemblages.
Chris Brickell is Associate Professor and Programme Director of Gender Studies at University of Otago, New Zealand.
Alison Oram is Professor in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett University. 
Robert Mills is Professor of Medieval Studies and director of qUCL, the LGBTQ research network at University College London.
Lukasz Szulc is a Marie Curie Individual Fellow in the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Matt Cook is a Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck.

Room 102, 30 Russell Square

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