Info — Saturday 7 November — Sunday 8 November — Abstracts
| VPC Theatrette | VPC Boardroom | AQuA Reading Room | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30- 11:30am | Chair: Nick Henderson
Cherry Charleston, Love letter to the ’90s Michaël Monty, “But My Name’s On The Door!” – A night out clubbing on the scene in the late 1990s, early 2000s |
Chair: Daniel Marshall
Jacquelyn Baker, “My age may seem young… My interests vary from feminism to raging”: Finding traces of young lesbian activism in Melbourne in the 1980s Jody Ekert, The Advocacy and Mystery of Vernon Marshall |
Chair: Ange Bailey
Yves Rees, Life Turned Inside Out: Amateur Drag and the Logic of Carnival in Pre-WWII Australia Kate Harris, Community and continuity in Naarm / Melbourne’s drag king costuming |
| 11:30am- 1:00pm | Chair: Drew Pettifer
Ted Gott, Agnes Martin Mel Deerson and Spiros Panigirakis, Open Garden: queers doing art and activism in Australian gardens Jonathan Butler and Jeremy Eaton, “He’s artistic”: Contemporary portraits of closet-era gay art world figures |
Chair: Wayne Murdoch
Daniel Marshall, Queer Youth Histories Laura Castagnini, Lesbian Sex in the Archives: A conversation with Tracey Wall (Caviar Club) and Tiger Salmon (Wicked Women) Shay Johnson, Trans-figuring the Past: Transgender representations in Queensland’s Archives |
Chair: Graham Willett
Janette Verlie and David Gould, When the World Looked Away: A Family’s Story of Love, Loss and the Human Cost of HIV/AIDS. An interview with author Janette Verlie. Meredith Johnson, ChillOut: 30 Years of Queer Country Pride James O’Brien, Wagga Wagga’s LGBTQIA+ Community in the Early 1990s |
| 1:00- 2:00pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:00- 3:30pm | Chair: Tiger Salmon
Sam Stiegler, Learning From Kink: Queer Knowledge across Generations Jane Connory, Consent, Censorship and Community: Curating Queer Kink Histories through Australian and British Archives Jacob Sunter, Gay Pornography and the Idea of History |
Chair: Yves Rees
David Gould, Where are the Gay Male AFL Players? Masculinity, Mythology and Belonging Alex Ettling, Queer Culture in the Australian Rules Football Cheer Squads, c1950s-1990s Bruce Moore, From Flash Mob to Poof Doof: A History of Australian Queer Slang |
Chair: Spiros Panigirakis
Kate Toone, Out of the journals and into the streets; art as queered dissemination Jo Waite, Queer Cartoonists Talk Kenton Miller, How to be a queer cartoonist in an epidemic |
| 3:30- 4:00pm | Afternoon tea | ||
| 4:00- 5:00pm | Julie Peters, Steps forward and back – trans success and failure – a cabaret
Chair: Timothy Jones |
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Locations
- VPC Theatrette – Ground floor
- VPC Boardroom – Ground floor
- AQuA Reading Room – Mezzanine floor