A "Desire for History": Building Queer Archives at the University of Chicago
Presenters:
Linda Zerilli, Faculty Director, CSGS
Monica Mercado, CSGS Fellow
How does queer studies engage with the archive? Since 2007, faculty
and students affiliated with the University of Chicago’s Center for
the Study of Gender and Sexuality have worked to build archival collections
documenting the experiences of women and LGBTQ individuals and
communities at the University of Chicago. This lecture will give a
brief history of the project’s origins in feminist and women’s
history, and ask what it means to once-marginalized communities to
have a place in the University archives. It will offer a first look at
many of the items and oral history interviews that have been collected
documenting LGBTQ life on campus from the era of Gay Lib to the
present day. The presentation will be followed by a reception
celebrating the Center’s newly renovated building on University
Avenue.
Date: October 19, 2013
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Date: October 19, 2013
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM