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Public Lecture on popular understandings of male same-sex sexuality in France between 1870 and 1914
When: October 2, 2008 - 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Where: 311 Denney Hall
What: Lecture
Where: 311 Denney Hall
What: Lecture
Description of talk: Professor Wilson’s current project, The Freemasonry of Pederasts, aims to chart popular uderstandings of male same-sex sexuality in France between 1870 and 1914. In this talk, he will attempt to reconstruct and analyze how representations of sexuality between men were articulated, shaped, and circulated in print culture. The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century has proven a coherent and privileged moment in the history of Western sexuality since Michel Foucault postulated that during this period the homosexual first becomes “a personage.” A body of scholarship has already explored Foucault’s insight in terms of elite medical writing, the workings of the juridical system, and canonical French writers. Professor Wilson’s project moves beyond elite and official discourses to investigate more ephemeral, less complex and ambitious, less self-conscious and self-confident cultural productions. It draws on a substantial archive of guidebooks, popular sociology, police and prison memoirs, popular and naturalist fiction, newspaper faits divers and coverage of scandals, medical guides for laypeople, and caricature and illustration.
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October 7, 2008
It’s Elementary and It’s (Still) Elementary: film
7:00 pm -- Wexner Center Film and Video Theater
Screenings of two films, the nationally acclaimed It’s Elementary (1999) and the recently released documentary, It’s Still Elementary, which examines the incredible impact of It’s Elementary over the last decade, and follows up with teachers and students featured in the first film to see how lessons about LGBT people changed their lives.
From Groundspark Films:
It’s Elementary is the first film of its kind to address anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with kids about gay people. Hailed as "a model of intelligent directing," It’s Elementary shows that children are eager and able to wrestle with stereotypes and absorb new facts about what it means to be gay or lesbian. Since it aired on more than 100 public television stations in 1999, It’s Elementary has fueled a growing movement of educators and parents — gay and straight alike — who are committed to preventing pervasive homophobia and anti-gay violence. The film shows what happens when kids in kindergarten through eighth grade discuss lesbian- and gay-related topics in age-appropriate ways. Shot in six public and private schools, It’s Elementary models excellent teaching about family diversity, name-calling, stereotypes, community building and more.
It’s Elementary has won numerous awards, has been acquired by nearly 3,000 educational institutions, and has received widespread acclaim from educators, policymakers, parents and religious leaders. Since its release, the producers have run a remarkably successful grassroots distribution campaign, intended to make It’s Elementary accessible to every conceivable type of institution working with children today. Through this effort, the film has had an unprecedented impact, creating a tidal wave of activism and public dialogue about addressing lesbian and gay issues in school.
From Groundspark Films:
It’s Elementary is the first film of its kind to address anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with kids about gay people. Hailed as "a model of intelligent directing," It’s Elementary shows that children are eager and able to wrestle with stereotypes and absorb new facts about what it means to be gay or lesbian. Since it aired on more than 100 public television stations in 1999, It’s Elementary has fueled a growing movement of educators and parents — gay and straight alike — who are committed to preventing pervasive homophobia and anti-gay violence. The film shows what happens when kids in kindergarten through eighth grade discuss lesbian- and gay-related topics in age-appropriate ways. Shot in six public and private schools, It’s Elementary models excellent teaching about family diversity, name-calling, stereotypes, community building and more.
It’s Elementary has won numerous awards, has been acquired by nearly 3,000 educational institutions, and has received widespread acclaim from educators, policymakers, parents and religious leaders. Since its release, the producers have run a remarkably successful grassroots distribution campaign, intended to make It’s Elementary accessible to every conceivable type of institution working with children today. Through this effort, the film has had an unprecedented impact, creating a tidal wave of activism and public dialogue about addressing lesbian and gay issues in school.
February 17, 2009
John Hemingway, author of Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir, 2007
7:00 pm -- Wexner Center Film and Video Theater
Description: John Hemingway will be reading from, talking about, and signing his new book, Strange Tribe. Open to the public.
From Publisher’s Weekly:
In Strange Tribe, the author, grandson of Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway, and son of his youngest child, Gregory, investigates the similarities between these two paternal figures and seeks to find his place in their "strange tribe" with a "famous last name." Sure to excite fans and Hemingway scholars, the book does much to complicate Ernest's image as a macho man, cataloguing both his dependence on women and his gender-bending proclivities. However, the true heart of the book is in exploring the Hemingways' failure as parents and how the familial disposition toward manic-depression created a genetic "Hemingway curse." The author, having escaped the disease, paints his father and grandfather in blunt strokes as loving and generous men who had little understanding of their psychological disorder; the most endearing and comprehensive portrait is of his father's struggles as a transvestite son of a "pillar of American manhood." When describing his own parents' early neglect (his mother was schizophrenic) and, later, his partial reconciliation with his father, the book focuses on the author's generation of Hemingways—but mostly the book is intent upon setting the record straight about Ernest, his youngest son and their similarities. John Hemingway writes honestly and is a sympathetic scrutinizer of this complicated and famous man, the family he parented and the myths to which his writing has given birth.
From Publisher’s Weekly:
In Strange Tribe, the author, grandson of Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway, and son of his youngest child, Gregory, investigates the similarities between these two paternal figures and seeks to find his place in their "strange tribe" with a "famous last name." Sure to excite fans and Hemingway scholars, the book does much to complicate Ernest's image as a macho man, cataloguing both his dependence on women and his gender-bending proclivities. However, the true heart of the book is in exploring the Hemingways' failure as parents and how the familial disposition toward manic-depression created a genetic "Hemingway curse." The author, having escaped the disease, paints his father and grandfather in blunt strokes as loving and generous men who had little understanding of their psychological disorder; the most endearing and comprehensive portrait is of his father's struggles as a transvestite son of a "pillar of American manhood." When describing his own parents' early neglect (his mother was schizophrenic) and, later, his partial reconciliation with his father, the book focuses on the author's generation of Hemingways—but mostly the book is intent upon setting the record straight about Ernest, his youngest son and their similarities. John Hemingway writes honestly and is a sympathetic scrutinizer of this complicated and famous man, the family he parented and the myths to which his writing has given birth.
