[csaa-forum] GAY AMERICAN HISTORY @ 40 CFP

[Daniel Marshall]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Gay American History @ 40
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer History:
Past, Present, Future

May 5-6, 2016

New York City

Conference sponsors:
The Humanities Action Lab at The New School for Public Engagement,
CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY Graduate Center,
&
OutHistory.org<http://outhistory.org/>


We are delighted to announce a conference marking the fortieth anniversary of Jonathan Ned Katz's Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (GAH, 1976).

This conference on the anniversary of Gay American History will provide an opportunity for critical reflection on the book and on the international development of LGBTQ and heterosexual history.

This conference will highlight the ways in which theories, categories, research methods and priorities have been constructed, challenged, and reconstructed over the last forty years of historical research on sexuality and gender.

GAH developed out of Katz's documentary play, Coming Out!, produced by New York's Gay Activists Alliance in June 1972. The book, intended for general readers and as an incitement to scholarly research, spoke to two audiences. This conference will also speak to the general public as well as to researchers, featuring scholarly presentations along with visual art and performances inspired by LGBTQ and heterosexual history.

As a founding text of LGBTQ history, GAH appeared before the modern institutionalization of such studies, when such research was actively discouraged in universities, and it was not clear that such scholarship had any future. Drawing together an unprecedented collection of documents produced since 1566, GAH anticipated and inspired many aspects of the LGBTQ history research that followed. This anniversary provides an opportunity for reflecting on earlier work on sexual and gender history and the growth of the field since 1976.

Because GAH was produced by an independent scholar, the legacy of the book also invites questions about the economics of such knowledge production, and the present situation of independent and other scholars in the fields of sexual and gender history.

Keynote speakers for the conference include Susan Stryker, with more invited speakers to be announced.

To propose a paper, please submit a 250-word proposal plus a brief bio for each person involved, including contact details.  Please indicate if your proposal is a conventional conference paper or a different type of contribution (e.g. performance, exhibition etc.).  Please send your proposal to daniel.marshall at deakin.edu.au<mailto:daniel.marshall at deakin.edu.au> by the end of August 2015.

Contributions are especially desired in the areas of:

*      Indigenous and Native American histories

*      Transgender histories

*      Sexual and gender histories focusing on class, race, ethnicity and ability

*      Resistance and movement histories

*      Heterosexual histories

*      Early American histories

*     LGBTQ U.S. history in the world: transnational links and international influences

*      Sexual and gender histories beyond the U.S.

*      Legacies of gay and lesbian liberation

*      Constructing theories of sexual and gender history

*     The material conditions of research

*      Histories of the production of LGBTQ and heterosexual history

*      Historical and archival methods

*      Public history, the Internet, and social media

*      Art inspired by sexual and gender history

*      The doing and undoing of sexuality and gender

We strongly encourage contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

It is anticipated that the conference will produce an edited collection.

Daniel Marshall (PhD.)
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Education
Deakin University
Melbourne, Australia
https://deakin.academia.edu/DanielMarshall

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