In 2011, the guts for the analysis of Gender and Sexuality launched Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles, a task documenting lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgendered, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) life during the University of Chicago through the very early 20th century through the day that is present. In Spring 2015, the task culminated in a event into the Special Collections Research Center at Regenstein Library and a permanent oral history archive that could be accessed by generations to come of scientists and community users.
The project has contributed to building community and expertise around the history of sexuality across disciplines by providing undergraduate and graduate students at the University space for research and intergenerational mentorship in addition to producing new scholarship. The project has offered a yearly undergraduate course, training students in the practice of oral history and archival research in gender and sexuality and exploring LGBTQ history over the past four years. In Spring 2015, Lauren Stokes, task exhibit and co-coordinator curator taught a training course on worldwide sexualities (GNSE 22804) that coincided with all the event in Special Collections.
Contexts of Coalition
Project Director: Chase Joynt, Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology and CSGS
Coalitional politics and methods have traditionally been foundational principles of community-based activist initiatives, and inspired the creation of interdisciplinary pedagogies. Contexts of Coalition invites activists and performers focusing on the vanguard of social problems to give talks that are public lead practice-based workshops at CSGS for interested individuals. [Read more…]