All sessions take place in 211 Dickinson Hall at Princeton University.
Friday, May 10, 2019
2–3.15 | Welcome and Introductory Session
Paul Babinski, Princeton University
Benjamin Bernard, Princeton University
Emily Rutherford, Columbia University
3.15–3.30 | Break
3.30–4.30 | Panel 1
“Searching for Queer Ancestors: Gay Activism and Historical Knowledge in Germany and Western Europe, c. 1890–1930” | Dr. Ian Beacock, University of British Columbia
“From Free Law to Free Love: On Theodor Sternberg’s Sexological Explorations in Imperial Japan, 1935-1937” | Katharina Isabel Schmidt, Princeton University
4.30–5 | Break
5–6 | Panel 2
“Pederasty and Pedagogy Revisited: A Genealogy of Queer Studies on French Gay Modernism” | Prof. Ian Fleishman, University of Pennsylvania
“Conservative Homosexualities and Normative Masculinities in Modern Britain” | Emily Rutherford, Columbia University
Saturday, May 11, 2019
9.30–10.30 | Panel 3
“The Ethics of Queer Archival Readings” | Javier Fernández Galeano, Brown University
“Citizen, Population, Abortion: Soviet Technology and the Indian Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971” | Tara Suri, Princeton University
10.30–10.45 | Break
10.45–12.15 | Panel 4
“Homoerotics and the Practice of Early Modern Orientalist Scholarship” | Paul Babinski, Princeton University
“Goethe’s Stalker Snails” | Prof. Barbara Nagel, Princeton University
“Philology, Proof, and Drag: A Case Study” | Will Theiss, Princeton University
12.15–1.30 | Lunch
1.30–2.30 | Panel 5
“Vice in the Schoolyard: The Origins of French Enlightenment Homosociability”” | Benjamin Bernard, Princeton University
“Schoolboys in Disgrace” | Dominik Zechner, New York University
2.30–2.45 | Break
2.45–4.15 | Closing Roundtable
Prof. Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Prof. Leslie Peirce, New York University
