Interwar Cinema and Queer History: Researching the LGBTQ+ Past Symposium

Please join us at Southampton’s to network, explore research interests, and identify key themes and gaps in scholarship, as well as to discuss the archival sources and challenges involved in researching the LGBTQ+ past.

This symposium is open to academics and researchers who are interested in the subject and will be in person only. Registration is free, and lunch and tea/coffee will be provided.

Speakers and topics will include:

• Julie Gammon (Southampton) – Visibility and Its Limits: Queer History in Interwar Britain
• Molly Harrabin (Warwick) – Queering Lulu: Reopening the Celluloid Closet of Weimar Film
• Dominic Janes (Keele) – Pink Powder, Silver Screens, and Queer Male Glamour
• Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway) – The Queer Miniature in Hollywood Science Fiction of the 1930s
• Lawrence Napper (King’s College London) - Queer Goings-on in Interwar British Films
• Jigyasa Singh (Independent Researcher) – ‘Proper’ Men, ‘Othered’ Identities: Masculinity, Language and Queer Visibility in Interwar Cinema
• Gareth Smith (Cardiff) – A Perverted Word: ‘Gay’ Films in 1930s Hollywood
• Martin Stollery (Independent Researcher) – ‘Uncle Bas’ (Basil Wright) and the Queerness of British Documentary
• Adam Vaughan (Southampton Solent) – Searching for ‘Queer Feelings’ in George Cukor’s 1930s films

The symposium will be hosted by Michael Williams (Southampton) and Chris O’Rourke (Warwick). Email [email protected] and/or [email protected] for more information.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Lecture Theatre 2, Sir James Matthews Building, University of Southampton City Centre Campus, 157-187 Above Bar Street, Southampton, United Kingdom

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