Title: Queer/Gender/History

This event will begin at 3:15 instead of the usual 3pm.

Abstract: What can history contribute to contemporary understandings of Gender and Queerness? Historians have shown that our modern conceptions of trans* identity and sexual orientation originate in central Europe c.1869-1910. What else can we learn from history to inform contemporary Gender and Queer Studies? This talk will explore the histories of terms like “Gender,” the origins of the “two sex” model of humanity, and explore the fallacies of binary democratisation in the nineteenth century.