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FPST Seminar: Claudia Kreklau (精东传媒) – In-person
12th November 2024 @ 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm
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 鈥淕ender,鈥� the origins of the 鈥渢wo sex鈥� model of humanity, and explore the fallacies of binary democratisation in the nineteenth century.