The Making of Queer History: George Ives and his Diary, 1886 - 1949 | May 1

[Arts Communications]

On Thursday, May 1 at noon, the Tri-U History Program and the DRAGEN Lab are hosting Dr. Brian Lewis of McGill University. Dr. Lewis will deliver a talk entitled "The Making of Queer History: George Ives and his Diary, 1886 - 1949."

George Cecil Ives (1867-1950) was a scion of the English gentry, a sexologist and a criminologist who founded a clandestine “gay rights” organization, the Order of Chaeronea, in the 1890s. More significantly for the historian, he wrote a massive diary, observing and chronicling a sexual revolution: the period when new categories of sexual and gendered identity crystallized in a complex interplay between emerging sexological science and queer subjects. This paper aims to capture the Ivesian bricolage, in context, during this time of momentous change.

Dr. Lewis is an historian of modern Britain whose current SSHRC-funded project is an investigation into (homo)sexuality and criminality in Britain using Ives — a pioneer of "gay rights" — as his focus. Dr. Lewis has edited a collection of essays entitled British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives (Manchester UP, 2013) and has been guest editor on a special queer edition of the Journal of British Studies (July 2012). His third monograph, Wolfenden's Witnesses: Homosexuality in Postwar Britiain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), offers the first and definitive annotated edition of records produced by the infamous Wolfenden Committee, established in 1954 to investigate the state of British law regarding homosexuality and prostitution.

All are welcome!

WHEN: Thursday, May 1, 12PM
WHERE: SJ1, DRAGEN Lab

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