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SUMMARY: Ziegler Lecture: Jennifer V. Evans & Laurie Marhoefer\, “New Direc
 tions in Queer German Studies”
DESCRIPTION: 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.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>Join us on February 24 at 12:00 pm PT for 
 the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series\, featuring Jennifer Evans of Carleton U
 niversity 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  <a href="https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/harper-keenan">Harper Keenan</
 a> and <a href="https://cenes.ubc.ca/profile/ervin-malakaj/">Ervin Malakaj<
 /a>.</p><p>Register here via Zoom: <a href="https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/reg
 ister/WN_0J7_T0sxTOmvWUvMv2SJ2w">https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0J
 7_T0sxTOmvWUvMv2SJ2w</a></p><p><strong>Title:</strong> "New Directions in Q
 ueer German Studies: Joint Book Presentations featuring Jennifer V. Evans a
 nd Laurie Marhoefer"</p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The UBC Department of
  Central\, Eastern\, and Northern European Studies invites you to book talk
 s by <a href="https://carleton.ca/history/people/jennifer-v-evans/">Jennife
 r V. Evans</a> and <a href="https://history.washington.edu/people/laurie-ma
 rhoefer">Laurie Marhoefer</a>\, two of the leading scholars in queer German
  studies. The event will feature short book presentations by the authors an
 d a conversation about their work\, the field of queer German studies\, and
  its relationship to the broader fields of queer and trans studies.</p><p><
 strong>About the Authors and their Books:</strong></p><p><strong><img class
 ="wp-image-20018 size-medium alignright" src="https://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/
 wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2022/12/Book-Image-Laurie-Marhoefer-200x300.jpg
 " alt="" width="200" height="300" />Laurie Marhoefer</strong> is Jon Bridgm
 an Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington Seattle.</p
 ><p>In 1931 in Shanghai\, an aging German sexologist met a young medical st
 udent and fell in love. <a href="https://utorontopress.com/9781487523978/ra
 cism-and-the-making-of-gay-rights/"><em>Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
 : A Sexologist\, his Student\, and the Empire of Queer Love</em></a><em> </
 em>chronicles the world journey of Li Shiu Tong and Magnus Hirschfeld\, sho
 wing how racism\, eugenics\, and other disturbing ideas formed the foundati
 on of modern gay rights\, and how yet\, it did not have to be that way. A d
 ouble 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 ide
 as.</p><p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-20019 alignright" src="h
 ttps://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2022/12/Book-Image-
 Jennifer-V.-Evans--201x300.jpeg" alt="" width="201" height="300" />Jennifer
  V. Evans</strong> is Professor of History at Carleton University.</p><p>In
  <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-queer-art-of-history"><em>The Quee
 r Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism</em></a>\, Jennifer V. Evans 
 examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a pra
 ctice 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.</p>
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