6.30pm, Friday 27th November 2009
Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH, (near Liverpool
Street Station)
Jeffrey Weeks
Making the Human Gesture: History, Sexuality and Social Justice.
The 1970s saw the rise of new social movements engaged with issues of
sexuality. Historians inspired by these movements began writing
histories of sexual life. This talk traces the development of sexual
history since the 1970s, and shows the impact of changing sexual mores
on modern attitudes to human rights and social justice.
Jeffrey Weeks is a leading historian and sociologist of sexuality. His
1977 book Coming Out was hugely influential, and he has since published
many other landmark works, including Sexuality and Its Discontents
(1985), Making Sexual History (2001), and The World We Have Won: the
Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life (2007) . Jeffrey Weeks is now
Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University.
The lecture is free of charge and open to all, and will be followed by a
wine reception.
History of Education Society annual conference: 'Putting Education in Its Place'
December 4th, 5th and 6th 2009, at The University of Sheffield, Halifax Conference Centre, Endcliffe Village, Sheffield, S10 3ED.
There are two submission dates for abstracts. Those abstracts accepted which were submitted by 3 July 2009 will be notified by 21 August 2009; those abstracts accepted which were submitted by 4 September 2009 will be notified by 30 October 2009. Please note that the last and final date for submission of abstracts is 30 October 2009.
For further details of this conference see:
http://www.historyofeducation.org.uk/HEScfpRevised.doc
Recording Leisure Lives: Holidays and Tourism in Twentieth-Century Britain
30th March 2010, Bolton Museum
The annual Recording Leisure Lives conferences are presented by the University of Bolton and Bolton Museum and are structured around the Museum’s collection of photographs taken in Bolton by Humphrey Spender for Mass Observation in the late nineteen-thirties. Spender produced over 900 images of everyday life in Bolton (or Worktown as it was referred to by Mass Observation), many of which record leisure settings and practices such as drinking in pubs, football matches, dance halls and theatres. Spender also visited Blackpool to observe and capture ‘Worktowners’ on holiday, and the 2010 conference relates to these images by adopting as its theme ‘Holidays and Tourism in 20th Century Britain’.
For further information see http://www.bolton.ac.uk/conferences/leisurelives |
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