Edith Bleich Lecture: "Why We Need Queer Kinship Now More Than Ever" with Jennifer Evans, Professor of History at Carleton University in Canada.
Thursday, April 11, 2024 4pm
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https://humanities.as.miami.edu/public-programs/edith-bleich-speaker-series/index.html #"The U Creates"The Center for the Humanities invites you to join us for the Edith Bleich Lecture with Jennifer Evans, Professor of History at Carleton University in Canada.
"Why We Need Queer Kinship Now More Than Ever"
This lecture asks how the queer and trans past has often been drawn upon to make a series of claims about liberal democracy itself, including the place of identity in rights-based discourses of experience, policy, and governance. Drawing on lessons from German history, Evans argues that in celebrating decriminalization and the attainment of key social rights, we have forgotten that not everyone benefited equally from these gains, as in fact there were many different forms of solidarity and struggle over bodies, desire, community, politics, and family. Using kinship as an analytic category allows us to uncover that phenomenon, to seek out the fraught as well as productive ways in which Germans have confronted race, gender nonconformity, and sexuality in social movements, art, and everyday life. "Why We Need Queer Kinship Now More than Ever" tells the story of entanglements and alliances, desire over respectability, and good and bad kin, as queer and trans people have tested new possibilities for life, love, and public and family life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Jennifer V. Evans is Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has written books and articles on the history of sexuality, photography, social media, and memory. Recent books include The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism with Duke University Press, an edited volume for Berghahn Books in celebration of the life and writing of Jean Quataert, and the co-written monograph Holocaust Memory and the Digital Mediascape, which just came out with Bloomsbury. Evans is currently overseeing a multi-platform big data project on the weaponization of history and hate in social media networks and she is in the early stages of a new book entitled How Photography Shaped the Sexual Revolution. Alongside her academic writing, she undertakes collaborative digital projects. She is co-curator of the New Fascism Syllabus and the German Studies Collaboratory.
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