Join us on February 24 at 12:00 pm PT for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Jennifer Evans of Carleton University and Laurie Marhoefer of the University of Washington Seattle. The event is sponsored by the UBC CENES Ziegler Lecture Series and will be co-hosted by Harper Keenan and Ervin Malakaj.
Register here via Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0J7_T0sxTOmvWUvMv2SJ2w
Title: “New Directions in Queer German Studies: Joint Book Presentations featuring Jennifer V. Evans and Laurie Marhoefer”
Abstract: The UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies invites you to book talks by Jennifer V. Evans and Laurie Marhoefer, two of the leading scholars in queer German studies. The event will feature short book presentations by the authors and a conversation about their work, the field of queer German studies, and its relationship to the broader fields of queer and trans studies.
About the Authors and their Books:
Laurie Marhoefer is Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington Seattle.
In 1931 in Shanghai, an aging German sexologist met a young medical student and fell in love. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, his Student, and the Empire of Queer Love chronicles the world journey of Li Shiu Tong and Magnus Hirschfeld, showing how racism, eugenics, and other disturbing ideas formed the foundation of modern gay rights, and how yet, it did not have to be that way. A double biography of Li and Hirschfeld, it is the first extended examination of Li’s life and of his own sexology, which ditched his mentor’s core ideas.
Jennifer V. Evans is Professor of History at Carleton University.
In The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism, Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of identity. Drawing on black feminism, queer of color critique, and trans studies, Evans points out that although many rights for LGBTQI people have been gained in Germany, those rights have not been enjoyed equally.
