Tag: Dispatches

Lesbian Histories and Futures: A Dispatch From “Gay American History @ 40”

By Rachel Hope Cleves May 18, 2016 Dispatches 5 comments

Rachel Hope Cleves The fortieth-anniversary celebration of Jonathan Ned Katz’s classic document collection Gay American History convened Wednesday evening, May 4, at John Jay College in New York City, with a panel on lesbian history. Cheryl Clarke presided over comments by Caroll Smith-Rosenberg and Claire Potter to an audience that […]

History of Sexuality at the 2016 European Social Science History Conference

By notcheseditor March 6, 2016 Dispatches 0 comments

The Eleventh European Social Science History conference (ESSHC) takes place from March 30 to April 2, 2016, in Valencia, Spain. This year’s conference includes a number of exciting panels and events devoted to exploring the history of gender and sexuality across time and space, which we have listed for our readers […]

History of Sexuality at the 2016 American Historical Association Conference

By notcheseditor October 29, 2015 Dispatches 1 comment

The 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) takes place January 7-10, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia. The theme for this year’s conference, “Global Migrations: Empires, Nations, and Neighbors,” opens the meeting to a number of exciting panels and events devoted to exploring the history of sexuality across time […]

Health, Reproduction, and Sex: Growing a Field for Latin Americanists

By notcheseditor May 14, 2015 Dispatches, Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

Raúl Necochea and Cassia Roth It was our good fortune to share a table with three terrific scholars at the 2015 American Historical Association (AHA) conference, all working in the borderlands of reproduction, sexuality, health, and Latin American/Caribbean politics. Our panel, “The Politics of Reproduction in the Americas: Bolivia, Jamaica, and […]

Reading Silences in Histories of Religion and Sexuality

By notcheseditor March 26, 2015 Dispatches, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Philippa Koch How do we, as scholars of religion, interrogate the silences in our sources? And what do silences in religious texts reveal about sexuality, sickness and race? This was the framing question of the panel “Silences in Protestant Autobiography: Exploring Sickness, Sexuality, and Race in American Religion,” which I organized […]

Globalizing the History of Sexology

By notcheseditor March 12, 2015 Dispatches, Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Chris Waters It is no exaggeration to say that this year one could attend the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), held in early January in New York City, and experience a queer conference within a conference. The US Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History brought […]

Meet Me in St. Louis: History of Sexuality at the 2015 Organization of American Historians Conference

By notcheseditor March 7, 2015 Dispatches 0 comments

The 2015 Organization of American Historians annual meeting (OAH), takes place April 16-19, 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri. This year’s conference theme, “Taboos,” has engendered a number of exciting panels, museum displays and a walking tour related to the history of sexuality, which we have listed for our readers below. Are you attending […]