LGBTQ+ ALMS 2016
Day Two @ University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street
KEY ROOMS
For the keynote addresses:Little Titchfield Street Lecture Theatre
For the panels:The Boardroom (room 117, first floor), Regent Street Building
The Cayley Room (room 152, Upper first floor), Regent Street Building
UG05 (Upper Ground floor), Regent Street Building
For the afternoon tea break:Rooms 412 and 413 (fourth floor), Regent Street Building
Quiet room:Room 315 (3rd floor), Regent Street Building (available 10am-5pm)
Prayer rooms:Lower ground floor, Regent Street Building
Events shaded in grey are in 12 LITTLE TITCHFIELD STREET. All other events are in 309 REGENT STREET.
Time / Session / Speakers / Location08:45-09:15 / Registration/
Coffee / Portland Hall (Little Titchfield
Street building)
09:15-09:30 / Welcome / Simon Avery,Katherine M. Graham and Alex Warwick / LTS Lecture Theatre
09:30-10:30 / Keynote 1 / Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, ‘One Librarian, Many Communities: Access and Practice on Documenting Black Lesbians of New York City’ / LTS Lecture Theatre
Chair: Katherine M. Graham
10:30-10:45 / Move to Regent Building
10:45-12:15 / Session 1 / Heritage I
Matt Cook, ‘Queer Pasts in the LGBT Present: Archives, Outreach and “Public”
History in the UK’ (20 mins)
Justin Bengry, ‘Pride of Place: Crowdsourcing Queer Heritage’ (20 mins)
Alison Oram, ‘“But that’s alright now, isn’t it?”: Changing Attitudes and Policies in
LGBTQ Heritage Management in Britain’ (20 mins) / Boardroom
Chair: Ben Walters
Media I
Matthew Linfoot, ‘Queer in your ear: LGBT Radio in the Archives’ (20 mins)
Tom of Tottenham, ‘Trans Guys are Hot: Self-determination, Language and
Representation of Trans Male Identities’ (20 mins) / Cayley Room
Chair: Francis Ray White
Wars
Stephen Bourne, ‘Fighting Proud:Gay Men’s Lives in the Two World Wars’ (15
mins)
Kate Davison, ‘Anti-Monolithic Research: Transcending Barriers between “East”
and “West” in the History of Sexuality’ (15mins)
Isabelle Sentis, ‘QueeR Code: An Accessing LGBT Archives through the Skin’
(20 mins)
Josie Daw, ‘Queer Women in Second World War Britain’ (10 mins) / UG05
Chair: Helen Glew
12:15-13:15 / Lunch (own arrangements)
13:15-14:15 / Keynote 2 / Aaron H. Devor, ‘Trans* History in the Raw: Highlights from the Transgender Archives’ / LTS Lecture Theatre (Little Titchfield Street building)
Chair: Simon Avery
14:15-14:30 / Move to Regent Building
14:30-16:00 / Session 2 / Collections
Manon Parry and Hugo Schalkwijk, ‘Recreating Heritage to Enrich Histories: The
AIDS History Digital Scrapbook Project’ (20 mins)
Lonneke van den Hoonaard, ‘Queering the Collections: An Introduction to a
Recent Project of IHLIA, Amsterdam’ (20 mins)
Valerie M. Veenvliet and Mirjam Sneeuwloper, ‘Representation and Identity in
the Amsterdam Museum, in dialogue with communities’ (20 mins) / Boardroom
Chair: Alex Warwick
Institutions
António Fernando Cascais, ‘Researching LGBTQ Histories and Cultures in
Portugal’ (20 mins)
Surat-Shaan Knan, ‘Twilight People: Stories of Faith and Gender Beyond the
Binary’ (20 mins)
Kayte McSweeney and Jay Stewart, ‘Gendered Intelligence hacks into the
Museum: A Collaborative Exploration of the Material Culture of Gender
Diversity at the Science Museum, London’ (20 mins) / Cayley Room
Chair: Thomas Moore
Cataloguing
D. Grant Campbell and Scott R. Cowan, ‘Is Bigger Better? Mainstream Research
Collections, LGBTQ History, and the Case of Samuel Steward’ (20 mins)
Tara Hart, ‘Respecting the Artist’s Wishes: Descriptions of Identity in Museums’
(10 mins)
Vicky Iglikowski, ‘Navigating LGBTQ History: Accessibility in Government
Archive’ (10 mins)
Todd Weiner, ‘UCLA Film & Television Archive/ Outfest UCLA Legacy Project’
(20 mins) / UG05
Chair: Jan Pimblett
16:00-16:30 / Tea and coffee in rooms 412 and 413 (fourth floor, Regent Street Building)
16:30-17:30 / Session 3 / Methodology I
Antoine J. Rogers, ‘Interactive Digital Technology to Develop Network Culture:
Using Archival Material to Create a Black Queer Pop-up Academy’ (20 mins)
Melissa Adler, ‘On Using and Being Used: The Masochist in the Library’ (20
mins) / Boardroom
Chair: Gemma Romain
Heritage II
Sean Curran and Rachael Lennon, ‘Excavating LGBTQ+ Voices Throughout the
National Trust’ (20 mins)
Ben Walters, ‘How a Grassroots Campaign Made a Gay Pub the UK’s First
Queer Listed Building’ (20 mins) / UG05
Chair: Matt Cook
Media II
Marie Cartier, ‘What was Life Like for Gay Women Living in California in the 40s,
50s and 60s?’ (20 mins)
Tim Brunsden and Sandi Hughes, ‘Rewind Fast Forward: Sandi Hughes’ History
of the Liverpool Scene, 1975-2005’ (20 mins) / Cayley Room
Chair: Michelle Johansen
17:30-18:30 / Session 4 / Voices
Matt Smith, ‘Other Stories at the Leeds University Art Collection’ (20 mins)
Paul Dudman, ‘Refugee Voices, Refugee Narratives: Civic Engagement,
LGBTQ+ Communities and the UEL Archives’ (20 mins) / Cayley Room
Chair: Claire Haywood
Subjects
Gemma Romain, Tamsin Bookey and Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, ‘Navigate the
Heirarchies: Enabling Research into Queer Black Subjects in the UK,
1930s-1990s: A Roundtable’ / Boardroom
Methodology II
Jayaprakash Mishra, ‘Loving Well: Understanding Homoromantic Relationships
Between Homosexual Men Married to Women inOdisha, India’ (20 mins)
Ajamu, ‘Archival Dirt: The Politics of Pleasure in Black Queer Archives’ (20 mins) / UG05
Chair: Sean Curran
18:30-20:00 / Dinner: Own Arrangements
20:00-21:30 / Screenings / Reel in the Closet
Screening and discussion with Stu Maddux and Marjorie Bryer / UG05
BFI National Archive: Queer Nightlife Simon McCallum
Simon McCallum / Cayley Room