Programme

All presentations take place in Room G11, Common Ground, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL. All refreshments (breaks and lunches) are served in Room G12, Council Room

Schedule of Speakers

Friday 6th June

9am: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Professor Rebecca Jennings, UCL and Professor Liz Millward, University of Manitoba

9:15am: Session 1: Parallels between then and now

• Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender discourse, Dr Sandra Duffy, University of Bristol Law School (presenting online)
• From Section 28 to Institutional Transphobia: Tracing the Evolution of LGBTQ+ Marginalization in the UK, Dr Tōmei June Bacon, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
• Reframing ‘Positive Images.’ Gender and Visual Activism in Section-28 Britain, Dr Francesco Ventrella, University of Sussex

10:45am: Coffee break

11am: Session 2: Activism

• ‘Welcome to Sheffield, Lesbian Capital of the North!’ The Lore and Legacy of Section 28 in Sheffield and South Yorkshire, Dr Lucy Brownson, UCL
• Did Section 28 Act as an Enabler of Student Activism?, Dr Kris Nolan, University of Portsmouth
• LGBT+ telephone helplines and Section 28, Dr Kate Bradley, University of Kent
• Galop, Olivia Aarons, Royal Holloway

12.45-2pm: Lunch

2pm: Session 3: Literary and artistic responses to Section 28 then and now

• Looking at the archives of LSE Library that relate to Section 28, Dr Gillian Murphy, Curator of Equality, Rights and Citizenship at LSE Library
• Writing Positive Images: Lesbian Feminist Short Fiction before Section 28, Isabel Imhorst, King’s College London
• It’s a Sin: Christianity, Queer Sexuality, and Art at the end of the 1980s, Dr Thomas Elliott, University of Sussex
• Queer YA fiction as intergenerational dialogue and public history of Section 28: Simon James Green’s Boy Like Me, Dr Malcolm Noble, Leicester Vaughan College

3.45pm: Break

4pm: Session 4: IHR seminar: Collective Memories of Section 28

Please note: This is a hybrid session

• Solidarity through Sexuality: Unravelling the Legacy of Section 28 in Resisting the Apparatus of State Repression, Ansh Sharma, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, and Soumyaseema Mandal, LSE
• (Re)constructing Collective Memory: Cultural Representations and the Legacy of Section 28, Syeda Ali, University of Cambridge
• From Section 28 to the gay ‘tsar’ - LGBTQ+ teachers’ perspectives on, and experiences of, LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools, Dr Anna Llewellyn, Durham University (presenting online)

5.30pm: Finish

Saturday 7th June

9am: Activism and Education

• Personal experience of fighting Section 28, Emeritus Professor Sue Sanders, Harvey Milk Institute and CEO of Schools OUT UK
• Supporting LGBT+ and Queer Histories in Secondary Schools project, Rebecca Jennings, Bob Mills & Claire Hollis
• Allies, Bookshops, Communities: Regional Activism and Clause 28, Alison Oram, Professor Emerita at Leeds Beckett University and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research

10.15am: Coffee break

10.30am: Theatre and Film

• Section 28 and Me, Tom Marshman (performance artist), Professor Lois Bibbings, University of Bristol, and Dr Sarah Jones, University of Bristol 
• Don't Say Gay: Work in progress on a Section 28 feature length documentary, Sarah Drummond (writer and director)

12pm: Roundtable: Section 28 and its afterlives in the South West

• Dr Chloe Asker, University of Exeter
• Dr Helen Birkett, University of Exeter
• Sadie Long, Intercom Trust
• Dr Chris Sandal-Wilson, University of Exeter
• Macy Webber, community researcher
• Dr Hannah Young, University of Greenwich

1pm: Lunch

1.45pm: Roundtable on theme of cultural production (art, print media, etc.) and lessons for today

• Dr Flora Dunster, Central Saint Martins 
• Dr Theo Gordon, University of York
• Dr Laura Guy, Glasgow School of Art
• Nazmia Jamal, University of South Wales

3.15pm: Coffee break

3.30pm: Workshop, Subverting the legacies of Section 28 with collage

Dr Chloe Asker, University of Exeter

5.30pm: Closing remarks

5.45pm: Finish