On Thursday 18 February Professor Elise Chenier听will deliver the听 at Avenue Campus.
The Southampton Stonewall Lecture is the leading University lecture devoted to LGBT history and studies.
The听topic听of Elise’s lecture will be听‘Lesbian Life Stories: Stuck in the Past?听On the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimonies’.
The lecture will explore lesbian life-experience as captured in three decades of oral histories.
Professor Chenier will also explain why ‘lesbian’ still remains a useful category of analysis, as life stories continue to play a key role in constructing the LGBT community.
Professor Chenier is a leading historian of sexuality and oral history. She is founder of the , an open-access digital archive, and has conducted pioneering research on lesbian voices from prison.
Previous notable speakers have included and Professor .
The lecture is free and open to all.听Please visit the听 to听reserve听your place at the lecture, or email Tracy Storey.
For more information on LGBT research at the University, please visit the听.