QB 2014
Queer Bodies – 2014
Final Programme
10:00 – 17:00, 29th July 2014
Main Building, Room 355
Birkbeck, University of London
Directions can be found at the web site below.
The main entrance is in Torrrington Square.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps
Agenda
Chair for all panels – Chris Mounsey
10:00 – 10:15 – Introduction/coffee
10:15 – 11:45 – Session 1
Clare Walker-Gore – Cambridge University.
Magnificent Compensation: Disability and Queer Desire in
Lucas Malet’s The History of Sir Richard Calmady.
Stan Booth – University of Winchester.
The Personal Experience of Treatment: How Care Differed.
Charlotte Purkiss – University of Winchester.
From the trenches to the tightrope: confronting the challenges of Velona Pilcher’s bodily visions.
11:45 – 13:15 – Lunch
13:15 -14:45 – Session 2
Simon Jarrett – Birkbeck,
University of London.
‘Short, fat, deformed, squinting and weak in her understanding’: changing ‘common sense’ ideas of the idiot body in 18th and 19th centuries.
Janet Ravenscroft – Queen Mary, University of London.
Size isn’t everything: The Curious Case of the Hapsburgs
and their Dwarfs.
Sian Bride – University of Winchester.
Lesbians and Tattoos- Cesare Lombroso
and the Deviant Female Body.
14:45 – 15:00 – Coffee
15:00 – 16:30 session 3
Jed Wentz – University of Leiden
Performing Gilbert Austin’s Chironomia.
Chris Mounsey – University of Winchester
“Anything [Doesn’t] Goes in Popular Fiction”:
The Body of Justice and Peter Temple’s Jack Irish novels
Bee Scherer – Canterbury Christ Church University.
‘Crossings and Dwellings: Being Behind Transphobia’.
16:45 – 1700 – Closing remarks
17:00 – End of
Symposium
Optional – Pay as you go Dinner at Carluccio’s
in the Brunswick Centre a few Streets away.