| VPC Theatrette | VPC Boardroom | AQuA Reading Room | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30- 10:30am |
Chair: Matthew Mitchell Seth Malacari, Masc Shortage: the forgotten history of trans masculine Australia Todd Fuller, Pernicious practice, myth, fact and fancy, yellow socks in hand-drawn animation |
Chair: Gary Dowsett Matthew Devine, Recognizing Queer heritage through city planning Jeremy Smith, Sydney: A Queer Counter-Atlas: Drawing Intersubjective Counter-Cartographies of Time, Place, Body, and Mind in the Post-PrEP Age |
Chair: Joel Crotty David Evan Richard, Tracing Australian Queer Community Television: Production, Problems, Progress Will Bryant, “Bush town hit by AIDS fear”: Gay men and HIV/AIDS on Australia television |
| 10:30- 11:00am | Morning tea | ||
| 11:00am- 12:30pm |
Chair: Timothy Jones Gary Dowsett and Jennifer Power, Investigating sexuality, health and queer social worlds in Australia Matthew Mitchell, Governing Gender: A History of the Legal Regulation of Gender-Affirming Care in Australia Luciella Scarlett, “You don’t even have a dog”: A short history of amatonormativity |
Chair: Nick Henderson Ellen Coates, Collecting Queer History Beau Newham, Auditing our Memories: Centring discoverability in response to material vulnerabilities Grace Mooney, Making the Invisible, Visible |
Chair: Graham Willett Gary Schliemann and Mark Gillespie, Queer memory, defiance, radical faeries, back to nature movements and communal living: two 78ers reflect on acts of fun, resistance and strategies for challenging patriarchal power and violence Tom Palmer, “Is not the CPA still a sexist, poofter-bashing party?”: Communist Party of Australia and 1970s Gay Liberation Amber Loomis, The B isn’t silent |
| 12:30- 1:30pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:30- 3:00pm |
Chair: Timothy Jones Graham Willett, The Joy of Struggle Roz Ward, Safe Schools and Family Values in an Age of Gender Backlash: Queer Stories, Social Reproduction, and Contested Futures Drew Pettifer, Pink Bans: Art, Archives and Solidarity |
Chair: Joel Crotty Eric Riddler, Silent song: joy and loss in the art of Alan Brown (1954–2003) Aiden Magro, Archival Kinships: Photo Albums in the Archives Sophie Cox, SOS Men |
Chair: Kerryn Drysdale Ange Bailey, Remembering and forgetting: Queer Collective Memory Clem McNab, Trans oral histories and films Jonathan Sala, Oral Edging with LLMs |
| 3:00- 3:30pm | Afternoon tea | ||
| 3:30- 5:00pm |
Chair: Sam Stiegler Tiger Salmon, Curating Wicked Women Amanda Swadling, Finding Pride at the Australian War Memorial Scott East, Creative responses to the queer archives: anarchiving sodomy |
Chair: Mary Lou Rasmussen Kerryn Drysdale and Kate Manlik, (Im)possibilities of being: the spatialized relations of non-binary lesbians in Australia Wayne Murdoch, Mystery Solved: Whatever happened to John Irvine? Troy Wise and Ricardo Guzman, Held and Withheld: A Practice-Based Method for Reading Queer Lives |
Chair: Timothy Jones Stephen Adcock, The Northside Venues: A History Teishan Ahearne and Nici Stott, Queer Histories Queer Futures Paul van Reyk, Queer Eye for the Moloney Guy |
| 5:00- 6:00pm |
Screening and discussion of the documentary Men Like Me, which Susan Long directed and produced in 1994 in collaboration with Dale Michaels Chair: Angela Bailey |
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Locations:
- VPC Theatrette – Ground floor
- VPC Boardroom – Ground floor
- AQuA Reading Room – Mezzanine floor