OUTing the Past: the National Festival of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans History February 2018
Nominations invited for the 4th Allan Horsfall Lecture 2018
OUTing the Past: The 4th National Festival of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Trans History is delighted to invite nominations for the 4th Allan Horsfall Lecture that will be delivered as the centrepiece of the formal opening of the OUTing the Past Festival Conference, aka SEXing the Past, on the evening of Friday 16th March 2018 in the City of Liverpool, England.
The subject of the lecture must be an empirically based reading of past attitudes to sex and gender that ideally that touches on the law relating to lived experiences. The lecture will be approximately forty minutes in length and assessable to an audience will be a mix of academic and members of the general public with some prior acquaintance of the general subject matter. This will be followed by a Q&A sessions of thirty minutes. The event will be facilitated by Sue Sanders, Chair of Schools OUT(UK), and given in an auditorium with audio visual facilities to hand. The expected attendance is approximately one hundred with the lecture being filmed for later posting on the Festival site to make it accessible to the much larger on-line audience unable to attend the event.
The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) has generously sponsored the lecture (named after its former founding member and Life President) since its inception in 2015.
The confidential selection process: all nominations received will be considered using the following criteria:
1)The proposed subject matter of the lecture:
- The contribution to understanding of past attitudes and behaviours towards sexuality and gender.
- Its relationship to past lecture topics.
2) The proposed lecturer:
- Their standing and relationship towards LGBT/Human Rights
- Their communication skills
Please using the following scaffold to help frame your nomination(s)
I/we [name] ……………………………………………….
Nominate …………………………………………….. …..for consideration to deliver the 4th Allan Horsfall Lecture
The proposed tile & subject matter of the lecture……………………………………
I/we confirm that the nominee is aware and agreeable.
Please sendnomination(s) to marked ‘AH Nomination’ before the deadline of 30th September 2017
Who was Allan Horsfall?
Allan Horsfall, (1927–2012) was a British gay rights campaigner and founder of the North West Committee for Homosexual Law Reform, which became the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. At its height CHE boasted over 130 local groups and more than 5,000 members. It was the most successful attempt in this country to create a mass-membership democratic LGBT organisation. In Horsfall's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Peter Tatchell described him as "one of the grandfathers of the gay rights movement in Britain" and "one of the truly great pioneers of LGBT equality in Britain". [Further information @ ]
Previous Lectures
The 1st Allan Horsfall Lecturer was Professor Charles Upchurch: more information @
The 2nd Allan Horsfall Lecturer was Professor Susan Stryker; more information @
The 3rd Allan Horsfall Lecturer was Diana Souhami: more information @
We look forward to hearing from you
Kind Regards, Jeff & Sue
JGM Evans / Sue SandersSchools OUT(UK)
Joint-Coordinator OUTing the Past: The National Festival of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Trans History
& Visiting Research Fellow of Liverpool JM University / Chair Schools OUT
Professor Emeritus, Harvey Milk Institute
Joint-Coordinator OUTing the Past: The National Festival of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Trans History
Celebrating the OUTing the Past Festival (February) 2018 at the following Festival Hubs: OUTing the Past:Liverpool (Sat. 3rd Feb.),OUTing the Past:Manchester (Thurs.8th Feb.), OUTing the Past:London @ Royal Museums of Greenwich (Fri. 9th Feb.), OUTing the Past:Cardiff(Sat. 10th Feb.),OUTing the Past:London @ British Museum (Sun. 11th Feb.),OUTing the Past:London @ London School of Economics (Thrus. 15th Feb.),OUTing the Past:Belfast (Sat.17th & Sun. 18th Feb.), OUTing the Past:Bedford (Sat.17th Feb.),OUTing the Past:London @ London Borough of Waltham (Sat. 24th Feb.),OUTing the Past:Birmingham (Sat. 24th Feb.),OUTing the Past:London @ Bishopsgate (Wed. 28th Feb.).
More information available at OUTing the Past@ The Festival Conference of LGBT History@
Our Academic Advisory Panel (History): Dr Emma Vickers (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Fia Sundevall (Stockholms Universitet), Dr Helen Smith (University of Lincoln), Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter), Dr Jeff Evans (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Jen Grove (University of Exeter), Prof. Molly Merryman (Kent State University), Prof. Rainer Schulze (University of Essex) & Prof. Ken Valente (Colgate University, USA).
Our Distinguished Patrons: Alison Oram (Professor in Social and Cultural History, Leeds Becket University), Angela Eagle (Member of Parliament for Wallasey since 1992 & Government Minister 2007-2010), Bernard & Terry Reed (GIRES: Gender Identity Research & Education Society), Charles Upchurch (Associate Professor of History, Florida State University), Christine Burns (Equality and diversity specialist, podcaster, campaigner), Cyril Nri (Actor, director and writer), Gareth Thomas (Welsh International rugby player, Active Captain British and Irish Lions), Harry Cocks (Associate Professor, Department of History , University of Nottingham), Ian McKellen (Actor & Campaigner), Ian Rivers (Professor of Education for Social Change, Dept. Education, University of Strathclyde), Jeffrey Weeks (Emeritus Research Professor in the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University), John Amaechi (NBA Basketball player, psychologist & broadcaster), Labi Siffre (Poet, songwriter and singer), Matt Cook (Professor, History & Gender Studies, Birkbeck, University of London), Sheila Rowbotham (Professor & Simon Research Fellow, University of Manchester), Stephen Whittle (Professor of Equalities Law in the School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University).
In partnership withSchools Out UK.Registered in England as a charitable incorporated organisation number1156352. Founding organisation of LGBT History Month.
Part of OUTing the Past: The National Festival of LGBT History.
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