May 30, 12:00 PM: Nan Boyd Lunch Discussion, Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History

Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History A Lunch Discussion with Nan Alamilla Boyd Nan Alamilla Boyd is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses in the history of sexuality, queer theory, historical methodology, and urban tourism. Her book, Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (University of California Press, 2003), charts the rise of gay and lesbian politics in San Francisco and draws from the 45 oral histories she conducted as part of her research. Her second book, Bodies of Evidence, the Practice of Queer Oral HIstory (Oxford, 2012), co-edited with Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, pairs fourteen oral history excerpts alongside commentaries by oral historians. Nan has also been a long-time volunteer at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco and founded the Historical Society’s oral history project in 1992. Over lunch, in conversation with Professor Boyd, we will address issues of identiy, narrative, and community history. Boyd's visit is the third in a series of programs at CSGS in 2012-2013 that showcases the work of historians of gender and sexuality who create work for public audiences. It is offered as part of CSGS's new research project Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles: A History of LGBTQ Life at the University of Chicago. To RSVP to this special lunchtime talk and discussion, and to receive advance pdf copies of recommended readings, please email Monica Mercado at mmercado@uchicago.edu. Lunch will be provided.

Date: May 30, 2013
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM