CLGBTH affiliate session on LGBT identity, medicine, and health

Posted on April 21, 2011 by CLGBTH

Deadline: February 15, 2011

I am putting together a panel for the 2012 AHA LGBT program that explores the intersection of LGBT identity, medicine, and health. The relationship between sexuality, health, and medicine is complex and includes topics such as AIDS, psychiatry, sex work, and pregnancy to name a few. This panel will examine how medicine shapes identity among sexual minorities over time and conversely, how sexual minorities inform medical practice and understandings of health in the 20th century. Depending on responses, I am open to including papers with a transnational focus.

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Paperback Originals and the Origins of Contemporary Gay Literature

Posted on January 19, 2011 by CLGBTH

Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2011
Deadline for final essays: June 15, 2011

Novels known collectively as “out gay pulp” — paperback originals published with accelerating frequency in the 1960s—have received increasing attention, from popular collections like John Preston’s Flesh and the Word, Michael Bronski’s Pulp Friction and Susan Stryker’s Queer Pulp to the circulation of pulp covers in postcards, address books, and posters. Scholarly attention to this phenomenon has been more sporadic; an excellent bibliography by Tom Norman, essays by David Bergman and John Howard, and those by the various contributors to The Golden Age of Gay Fiction haven’t yet spurred a deeper, more engaged critical interest. Sixties paperback originals have been seen as quirky cultural anomalies or even insignificant pornographic outpouring rather than a significant literary and cultural intervention.

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American Historical Association

Posted on January 11, 2011 by CLGBTH

126th Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
January 5-8, 2012

Deadline: February 15, 2011

The 126th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 5–8, 2012, in Chicago. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from all members (academic and nonacademic) of the Association, from affiliated societies, from historians working outside the United States, and from scholars in related disciplines. The theme for the meeting, described in greater detail here, is “Communities and Networks.” While seeking proposals for sessions that explore facets of this broad topic, we also welcome submissions on the histories of all places and time periods, on many different topics, and on the uses of varied sources and methods. We also invite members to employ and to analyze diverse strategies for representing the past, including fiction, poetry, film, music, and art. The AHA is a capacious organization, unique among learned societies in its devotion to the full range of historical scholarship and practice. Our program will reflect this strength, and we will seriously consider any proposal that advances the study, teaching, and public presentation of history.

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