Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 10:43:32 EST From: Sara Stratton Subject: Canadian L/G/B History Conference Program For all those interested in attending, here is the "final tentative" schedule of presenters at "Out of the Archives," a conference on the history of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals in Canada, to be held at the Department of History, York University, North York, Ontario, from 13 to 15 January 1994. Please note that York University is easily accesssible by subway from downtown Toronto. There is no registration fee. Please address enquiries to STRATTON@VM1.YORKU.CA OUT OF THE ARCHIVES PROGRAM THURSDAY 13 JANUARY 2:30 - 4:30 pm: Public lecture: Jonathan Ned Katz speaking on "The Invention of Heterosexuality" 7 - 8:30 pm: Screening of the NFB film "Forbidden Love" 8:30 - 9:30 pm: Discussion with filmmaker Lynn Fernie FRIDAY 14 JANUARY 9:00 - 10:30 am: PLENARY PANEL: "SAME SEX, DIFFERENT HISTORY?" CHAIR: Sara Stratton (York) PANELISTS: Jonathan Ned Katz Gary Kinsman (Acadia) Mariana Valverde (U Toronto) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm: SESSION ONE: EMERGING RELATIONAHIPS, EMERGING COMMUNITIES CHAIR: TBA PRESENTERS: Jay Cassel (York), "Love in the Time of War: Same-Sex Activity in New France." Karen Duder (U Vic),"Public Acts and Private Language: Bisexuality and the Multiple Discourses of Constance Grey Swartz." Steven Maynard (Queen's), "Boys and Their Men: The Homosexual World of Working-Class Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1930." COMMENT: Katherine Arnup (Carleton U) 12:30 - 2:00 pm LUNCH 2:00 - 3:15 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION: FILMING CANADIAN GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL HISTORY CHAIR: Susan Lord (York) PANELISTS: Michelle Mohabeer Lisa Steele Kim Tomzcak 3:15 - 5:15 PM: SESSION TWO: AFTER HOURS - BAR CULTURE, STREET LIFE, & SPORTS CHAIR: Cynthia Wright (York) PRESENTERS: Elise Chenier (Queen's), "Risks, Roles, and Rounders: Lesbian Bar Culture in Toronto 1950-65." David Churchill (U Chicago) "Gay Sites and Public Space: Toronto in the 1950s." Helen Lenskji (OISE), "Out on the Playing Fields of Sport: Lesbians in Sport." Becki Ross (York), "Lesbians and Street Haven." COMMENT: Angus McLaren (U Vic) 5:15 - 5:45 pm: Screening of the film "Canes, Coconuts, and Culture" with filmmaker Michelle Mohabeer. 5:45 - 7:00 pm: Wine and Cheese Reception co-sponsored by the Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies. SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 9:00 - 11:00 am: SESSION THREE: TEXTS, MEMORY, AND METHOD: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO GAY AND LESBIAN HISTORY CHAIR: Rob Kristofferson (York) PRESENTERS: Robert Cagle (U Rochester), "Absolute Respect- ability: Desire, Identity, and 'History' in Kim Tomzcak and Lisa Steele's 'Legal Memory.'" Ross Higgins (UQAM), "Lives, Oral Narratives, and Writing the Past." Amanda Leslie-Spinks (U Calgary), "Lesbian Practice and Historical Materialism." COMMENT: TBA 11:00 - 12:30: PANEL DISCUSSION: "'BUT THERE ARE NO SOURCES' AND OTHER LIES: WORKING IN LESBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL HISTORY" CHAIR: Robert Champagne (Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives) PANELISTS: Harold Averill (CLGA) Maureen FitzGerald and Amy Gottlieb (Lesbians Making History) Indiana Matters (Office of the Attorney General, BC) and others 12:30 - 2:00 pm: LUNCH 2:00 - 3:30 pm: PANEL DISCUSSION: IN THE TRENCHES AND IN THE TOWER: TEACHING AND LEARNING LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL HISTORY." CHAIR: Karen Dubinsky (Queen's) PANELISTS: Jay Cassel (York) Stephen Maynard (Queen's) and others 3:30 - 5:30 pm: SESSION FIVE: SEX AND THE STATE IN POSTWAR CANADA CHAIR: Ed Jackson (Toronto Centre for Lesbian & Gay Studies) PRESENTERS: Mary Louise Adams (OISE), "Lesbian as Obscenity, or 'Women's Barracks' as a Threat to Girls." Stephan Holowka (York), "Sexual Orientation and the Charter of Rights." David Kimmel and Daniel Robinson (York), "'Certain Sensitive Positions': Anti-Gay Security Regulation in the Canadian Civil Service, 1955-1970." Gary Kinsman (Acadia), "'Character Weaknesses' and 'Fruit Machines': Towards an Understanding of the Social Organization of the Anti-Homosexual Purge Campaign in the Canadian Federal Civil Service, 1959-1964." Tom Warner, "Making Demands: The Struggle for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada, 1971-1983." COMMENT: Ann Gregory (Memorial University of Newfoundland) This conference has been generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of History (York University), the Office of the President (York University), Founders College (York University), the Graduate History Students' Association (York University), the Division of Social Sciences (York University), and the Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies. -- Thomas W. Holt Jr./Gwyn | USmail: 609 S 6th St Terre Haute,IN 47807-4313 QRD Assistant Faerie | Email:maholt@judy.indstate.edu | Vox:812-234-2814 Queer Resource Directory available via FTP/Gopher at vector.intercon.com Be Political Not Polite | Gay, Pagan, Proud! | Silence=Death Action=Life