LGBT History Month Seminar Staging a Queer Life

LGBT+ History Month Seminar “Staging a Queer Life: A Historian's Perspective” Date: Wed, 12 February Time: 1: 30 – 2: 30 pm Room: Business School Maurice Keyworth, SR (G. 31) To book please visit: tinyurl. com/tgqubq 4 Open to all staff & students Refreshments provided Dr Mo Moulton (University of Birmingham) asks, how should we write the history of queer lives?

LGBT+ History Month Seminar: “Histories of the Pregnant Man” Drawing on research material from the ESRC-sponsored Trans Pregnancy project, Dr Ruth Pearce will examine the figure of “pregnant man”, exploring his role as abstract symbol and material reality. Date: Wed, 12 February Time: 3: 00 – 4: 00 pm Room: Business School Maurice Keyworth, SR (G. 31) To book please visit: tinyurl. com/wthafx 7 Open to all staff & students. Refreshments provided.

LGBT+ History Month Seminar “Pronto Par on Palare (Quick talk on Polari)” A short tongue in cheek talk delivered by Ian Holdsworth, LGBT+ staff network Chair, on the history of the Polari dialect with a crash course on the basics. (Polari is a dialect of British English commonly associated with gay men in the 20 th Century). Date: Wed, 19 February Time: 1: 00 – 2: 00 pm Room: Business School Maurice Keyworth, SR (G. 31) Open to all staff & students. Refreshments provided. To book please visit: https: //tinyurl. com/t 4 tnglk

LGBT+ History Month Seminar “Shakespeare, the ‘master-mistress’ and Bisexuality in 2020” Date: Wed, 19 February Time: 2: 00 – 3: 00 pm Room: Business School Maurice Keyworth, SR (G. 31) To book please visit: tinyurl. com/qvblyd 7 Open to all staff & students Refreshments provided Christopher Wells asks, what have bisexuality, bierasure, bi-invisibility and Shakespeare got in common?

LGBT+ History Month Seminar Joint seminar: “Undergraduate Research on Queer Memorialisation” and “A brief history of glitter” The seminar will start with Tilen's research on Queer Memorialisation". Following this, Ian Holdsworth will look at the history of glitter and its significance in the LGBT+ community. Date: Fri, 21 February Time: 11: 00 – 12: 00 am Room: Business School Maurice Keyworth, SR (G. 31) To book please visit: tinyurl. com/u 4 rmd 95 Open to all staff & students. Refreshments provided.