*Justin Bengry* designed and led the world’s only MA in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London, from 2017 until 2024. Even as his appointment as the UK’s first lecturer in queer history signaled an important moment in the development of queer history in the UK, the field remains fraught with challenges from within and beyond the academy. Queer historians face attacks on specialisation from their own institutions, while on social media we are caricatured and condemned. But it is precisely for these reasons that an inclusive and critical queer history is more urgent than ever.

Reading: Premilla Nadasen, ‘Rethinking Care Work: (Dis)affection and the Politics of Caring’. _Feminist Formations_ 33, no. 1 (2021): 165-188

What is “care” good for, and how best to apprehend it as a scholarly category? The “Care” Series gathers scholars of any discipline who are interested in reading and thinking about “care” together. Each session, we gather to discuss a short reading with the help of a local expert.

Historians of nineteenth-century women and material culture have explored the myriad ways that material practices informed female strategies of identity, agency and creativity. This paper relates these ideas to experiences had in the nineteenth-century asylum. Focusing on the experiences of women, it examines the diary and material legacy of one asylum patient in particular: Elizabeth Hitchcock, a staymaker confined at Lancaster asylum in the 1840s.

Join us for a presentation by Doug Umberger, Director of Admissions and Alumni Engagement & Adjunct Professor, to learn about opportunities with the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Presentation of Dr. Roxani Krystalli's (University of St Andrews) new book, Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question (Oxford University Press, 2024), with comments and discussion from Prof. Leigh Payne (LAC/Sociology) and Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (DPIR).

I will discuss the under-theorized role that the erosion of the rule of law has played in the attempted consolidation of Russian democracy and re-establishment of authoritarianism. As a means of periodization and development of analytical concepts, I will discuss three public legal filings that I have made: (1) a 2011 report on the second conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky requested by the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Civil Society and Human Rights; (2) a 2020 third-party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Navalnyy & Ofitserov v.