[LCC] Homosexualties, from antiquity to the present (seminar at UCLA)

[Terrence Lockyer]

This notice was post to H-Histsex by Jack Kolb (UCLA):

Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, 2009-10 "Homosexualities, from 
Antiquity to the Present: Worlds, Subjections, Visibilities"

"Homosexualities" is a year-long Mellon-funded Sawyer seminar 
that concentrates on approaches to the study of same-sex desire 
from antiquity to the present. The seminar program aims to appeal 
to the broad range of constituencies at both UCLA and nearby 
institutions that have an established interest in the roles that 
the humanities currently play in the study of homosexuality, 
especially within the flourishing field of LGBTS. The seminar 
program, which will bring together both emergent and established 
scholars, includes a postdoctoral fellowship and two dissertation 
fellowships.

Although the term "homosexuality" has its own problematic 
history, the plural version of the word focuses attention on the 
ways in which scholars analyze patterns of same-sex eroticism in 
a broad range of historical and theoretical contexts. The seminar 
program aims to generate dialogue between researchers whose work 
is based within and across many different humanities disciplines. 
Sessions will look at the distant past and the near present, as 
well as the local and the global. From October 2009 to June 2010, 
participants will have many opportunities to engage with the most 
pressing debates that affect the ever-growing LGBT field.

Sawyer seminar planning committee: Joseph Bristow (Director; 
English), Lowell Gallagher (English), Grace Hong (Asian-American 
Studies and Women's Studies), Arthur Little (English), Amy 
Richlin (Classics), Juliet Williams (Women’s Studies), and Daniel 
Williford (Graduate Representative, English).

If you have a specific query about the seminar, please do not 
hesitate to contact the seminar director, Joseph Bristow, at 
jbristow at hument.ucla.edu, or the seminar program assistant, Irene 
Soriano Brightman, at isoriano at english.ucla.edu.


UCLA English Department
149 Humanities Building
Box 951530
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530
Tel: 310.825.4173  Fax: 310.267.4339

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