LGBTQ+ Symposium

In association with University of Aberdeen Anthropology Society, Creative Writing Society, English Literature Society and History Society.

The LGBTQ+ Symposium, running during the UK LGBTQ+ History month, is a celebration of queer lives, histories, and research conducted through the University of Aberdeen. Our aim is to put a spotlight on the excellent work currently being carried out by students and staff, on a range of contemporary issues related to the advancement of queer liberation in the academe. This one day event is packed with a range of topics across our departments, from dance, to opera, to architecture, and is followed by an evening of poetry with keynote speaker Dr Sam Newington (she/her), and a workshop on crafting fragmentary and found poetry with leaders of the Creative Writing Society. 

This in-person event will also be streamed through Teams. To attend the livestream, please register for an online ticket below.

____________________________________________

PLEASE NOTE:

• You will need a ticket to access the room;
• One ticket is valid for the whole day, no matter how many talks you attend;
• Tickets are for the symposium talks; for tickets to our Sappho & Wine Night, please click here
• If you have any question, please email us at english.lit@ausa.org.uk .

____________________________________________

Schedule: 

9.30-10.00 - Doors Open

10.00-10.15 - Welcome presentation

10.15-10.45 - Dr Jennifer Walklate - Millenium Recedes: Museums, Queer Temporality and the Weird in a World Out of Time

10.45-11.15 - Dr Sone Erikainen - Unruly bodies in the Olympics: intersex athletes and the history of sex testing in sport. 

11.15-11.30 - BREAK

11.30-12.00 - Lynn Van Els - Finding Voices and Community in the Queer Press of the Weimar Republic

12.00-12.30 - Dr Elizabeth Elliott - Geographies of embodiment: intersections of place, race, and feeling in late medieval Scotland

12.30-13.30 - LUNCH

13.30-15.00 - Panel: Queering the arts with

Kirstie Fraser - Frederick Ashton: A Subversive Dance Between the Lines of 20thCentury Choreography

Moth McGowan - Queering Carmen: Telling trans and nonbinary stories in the current operatic canon

15.00-15.15 - BREAK

15.15-15.45 - Emily Metcalf-Corrison - Are the Archangels Trans?

 15.45-16.15 - Benoit Saba - The sword and the dress: Queerness and masculinity in the myth of Achilles and Patroclus 

The symposium will be followed by our Sappho & Wine Night at 5.30PM. Click here for tickets to the event.