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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe conference is free to attend with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registration will close on Monday\, June 3 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits. \nPlease visit the event webpage to register to attend. \nThis conference will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide consequences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. These trials\, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male homosexuality\, resulted in a brutal two-year sentence for committing acts of gross indecency with other males\, for which Wilde suffered solitary confinement with hard labor. He was tried under the punitive eleventh section of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885: a law that underwent partial decriminalization in England and Wales in 1967 (somewhat later in Scotland and Northern Ireland). \nThe organizer Joseph Bristow has recently published Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings\, from Arrest to Imprisonment (Yale University Press\, 2022). His book features a comprehensive reconstruction of the trials through a wide range of newspaper and other printed sources. This volume–which turns to British press accounts because the official shorthand court records have been missing from the National Archives since at least 1920–is sorely needed. The last comprehensive account appeared in 1962\, and it contains very uneven coverage of the ways in which the Crown prosecution used unreasonable methods to persuade the jury that Wilde was guilty of an easy-to-corroborate crime. More to the point\, the 1962 edition–on which scholars still rely–presents an outdated view of male homosexual intimacy. Bristow’s volume situates the Wilde trials in relation to several other well-known cases involving homosexual scandal: the Dublin Castle affair; the male brothel on Cleveland Street; the trial of Edward de Cobain; and the Gatty v. Farquharson dispute. \nOscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State takes the occasion of Wilde’s courtroom ordeal as a starting-point for understanding not only the growing awareness of queer subcultures during the 1880s and 1890s but also the long shadow that Wilde’s trials cast upon the proscription of same-sex intimacy in many different parts of the world. The legacy of Wilde’s imprisonment can be felt in divergent areas of the colonial and post-colonial world\, especially in Australia\, New Zealand\, Africa\, South Asia\, Hong Kong\, and Singapore. The fact that more than 50\,000 or so men were convicted under the egregious terms of the 1885 law in Britain speaks to the increasing ways in which male-male intimacy became prosecutable during a period of seventy-two years. The conference provides the opportunity to look at the impact that charges of gross indecency had in Britain\, particularly in relation to persistence of homosexual extortion\, changes in policing methods\, and the attempted criminalization of lesbian intimacy. The symposium provides a forum for legal and humanities scholars to exchange insights into this significant current of modern sexual history. \nSpeakers\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\nDustin Friedman\, American University\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\nChris Waters\, Williams College \n\nProgram Schedule\nAll times listed in Pacific Daylight Time\nQ&A to follow each presentation \nFriday\, June 7 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \n9:15 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nBronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nIntroductory Remarks\nJoseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nThe Wilde Trials and Nineteenth-Century Sexual Scandal \n9:30 a.m.\nCharles Upchurch\, Florida State University\n“Why the Early Nineteenth Century Matters to the Wilde Trials” \n10:15 a.m.\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\n“Louise Mourey\, Gross Indecency\, and the (Non-)Criminalization of Sex between Women” \n11:00 a.m.\nCoffee Break \n11:15 a.m.\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\n“A German Sexpert at the Old Bailey? Albert Moll\, Lawson Tait\, and the Trials of Oscar Wilde” \n12:00 p.m.\nLunch\nBooks and Manuscripts Exhibition in the North Book Room \n“Gross Indecency”: Then and Now \n1:30 p.m.\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\n“On Knowing It When You See It: Forensic Evidence and the Epistemologies of Gross Indecency” \n2:15 p.m.\nChris Waters\, Williams College\n“The Trials of Oscar Wilde and the Sexual Politics of 1950s Britain” \n3:00 p.m.\nCoffee Break \n3:15 p.m.\nSean O’Toole\, Baruch College\, City University of New York\n“States of Exception: Gross Indecency and U.S. Sodomy Law after Dobbs” \n4:00 p.m.\nReception \nSaturday\, June 8 \n8:45 a.m.\nCoffee and Registration \nOscar Wilde\, Pornography\, and Privacy \n9:15 a.m.\nBenjamin Kahan\, Louisiana State University\n“Timelines of Sexuality: Oscar Wilde\, A. C. Swinburne\, and the History of Pornography” \n10:00 a.m.\nRobert Spoo\, Princeton University\n“Infringing Dorian: Copyright\, Photography\, and Privacy in Oscar Wilde’s Novel” \n10:45 a.m.\nCoffee Break \nObscenity\, Empire\, and the Victorian State \n11:00 a.m.\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\n“Obscenity\, Sedition\, and the Victorian Post Office: Archival Fragments of a Liberal Dilemma” \n11:45 a.m.\nDustin Friedman\, American University\n“Myth\, Mimesis\, and the Imperial State in Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates” \n12:30 p.m.\nProgram Concludes
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/oscar-wilde-sexuality-and-the-state/
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SUMMARY:English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
DESCRIPTION:The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA Faculty Club on Friday\, June 7 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm. \n\nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/english-and-writing-programs-honors-and-awards-reception-3/
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