Tag: Conferences and Events

Beyond the Binary: Trans* History in Early America

By Rachel Hope Cleves January 29, 2015 Dispatches, Early America 2 comments

Notches Dispatches are submissions from our readers that offer critical accounts of conferences, symposia, and workshops in the history of sexuality. This post by Rachel Hope Cleves is the first of a series of Dispatches from panels on the history of sexuality at the 2015 meeting of the American Historical Association. […]

Lines of Dissent at London Metropolitan Archives: Finding and Creating LGBTQ Histories

By Claire Hayward December 18, 2014 Dispatches, LGBTQ Comments are Disabled

Claire Hayward On Saturday 6 December, historians, archivists and activists joined together at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) to discuss ‘Lines of Dissent’. The 12th LGBTQ History and Archives Conference at LMA chose queer inheritance as its theme this year, which was run in collaboration with the Raphael Samuel History Centre (RSHC). (Disclaimer: […]

Deviant Domesticities: Reflections on the Queerness of Home

By notcheseditor November 6, 2014 Dispatches, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Stephen Vider Can the home be queered, or has the home been queer all along? This was the question I posed last month as the organizer of The Queerness of Home: Intimacy, Normativity, Domesticity. The symposium, hosted by the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, brought together three […]

Dispatch from The G-Spot: Gentrification, Transformation and Queer San Francisco

By notcheseditor October 9, 2014 Dispatches, LGBTQ 0 comments

In keeping with our commitment of fostering a public and widespread discussion of the history of sexuality within and outside of the academy, we at Notches are pleased to introduce the first post in our “Dispatches” series. Here, we publish our readers’ critical accounts of the conferences, symposia, workshops and suchlike that […]

History of Sexuality at the American Historical Association Conference

By notcheseditor October 6, 2014 Dispatches 0 comments

The conference schedule has been posted for the 129th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), which takes place January 2-5, 2015 in New York City (register now!). The AHA has a number of wonderful panels on the history of sexuality, which we have listed for our readers below. Are […]