Friday 31 January 2025, 1pm - 2pm
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Oxford (in-person only)
All welcome.
What does it mean to write queer history today? How do we do it? Join Professor Tamara Chaplin (who will be speaking about her new book, Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History (U Chicago Press, 2024) at Oxford's Maison Française at 5:15pm on January 30) for an informal discussion with graduate students. Drawing on the theoretical, practical, and material issues that she confronted over fifteen years of research in public and private archives throughout France, Chaplin will lead us in an exploration of such critical questions as: Whom should queer history include and how? What archival, methodological, and analytic challenges does writing queer history pose? Is the writing of queer history necessarily a political act? Whether your work is historical or theoretical, queer focused or queer adjacent, come join us for a lively conversation about the state of the field.
Tamara Chaplin is Professor of Modern European History and Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chaplin is a scholar of sexualities, gender, and the media in modern France and the Francophone world. Her research interests include queer identities, social justice, war, and human rights. Chaplin’s latest book, Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France was published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2024. Her first book was Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television (U Chicago Press, 2007). Chaplin’s publications have appeared in French Historical Studies, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and in edited collections in French, English, Spanish, and Catalan. Her co-edited volume The Global Sixties: Convention, Contest, and Counterculture (with Jadwiga E. Pieper- Mooney), appeared with Routledge in 2017. A former professional ballet dancer and trained actor, Chaplin received her doctorate in Modern European History from Rutgers University (NJ) and her BA from Concordia University (Montreal).
Queer Intersections Oxford, TORCH Networks
