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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>The Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland is pleased to announce it will host a public lecture by Judith/Jack Halberstam on December 7, 2pm-4:30pm, in the SS&H Library Conference Room.<SPAN> A campus map is available at <SPAN class=url><A href="https://exchange.uq.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/pdf/StLuciaMap.pdf" target=_blank>www.uq.edu.au/maps/pdf/StLuciaMap.pdf</A>.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: auto 0cm"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Abstract.<SPAN> </SPAN><STRONG><SPAN>"The Killer in Me is the Killer in You: Homosexuality and Fascism."</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></H3>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>In Sasha Baron Cohen's most recent camp spoof, <EM>Brüno</EM>, the very gay and very swish Austrian fashionista compares himself several times to Hitler and jokes that he is "the second most misunderstood Austrian in history." The intersection of Nazi and homosexual that Cohen invokes has a long and vexed history that stretches from the well-known homosexuality of Nazi storm troopers to eroticized images of Nazi soldiers by Tom of Finland. Leo Bersani notes the glorification of Nazism in the work of Jean Genet, and Dagmar Herzog notes in <EM>Sex After Fascism </EM>that "popular assumptions of Nazism as a homosexual movement have remained remarkably durable." In this talk, I will return to a very important essay by Stuart Marshall from 1991, titled "The Contemporary Political Use of Gay History: The Third Reich" and try to account for both gay Nazis and the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. At stake is a complex understanding of queer history that neither whitewashes the past nor colludes in homophobic renderings of it. <BR> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: auto 0cm"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">About the Speaker</FONT></SPAN></H3>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>Judith/Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California, and the author of <EM>Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters</EM> and <EM>In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives</EM>.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN>For further information or to rsvp, please contact </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Elizabeth Stephens at <A href="mailto:e.stephens@uq.edu.au" target=_blank>e.stephens@uq.edu.au</A>.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Elizabeth Stephens<BR>Research Fellow<BR>Centre for the History of European Discourses<BR>University of Queensland Australia 4072<BR>Phone: 61 7 3346 9493<BR>Fax: 61 7 3346 9495<BR></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>