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ALMS 2019: CLOSING EVENT – EVENING PODIUM – ‘QUEERING MEMORY, DEFENDING THE FUTURE’

Chairs: Benno Gammerl & Kate Davison, Steering Committee/Organising Team 2019
Pia Laskar, Swedish National Historical Museums
Leonardo Arouca Porfirio da Silva, Museum of Sexual Diversity, São Paulo, Brazil
Jonathan D. Katz, Harvey Milk Institute & Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Judit Takács, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Aaron Devor, Transgender Archives&Chair in Transgender Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
Katerina Suverina, Public History Laboratory & Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

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Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Benno Gammerl, Jonathan D. Katz, Judit Takács, Aaron Devor, Pia Laskar, Katerina Suverina; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Benno Gammerl, Jonathan D. Katz, Judit Takács, Aaron Devor, Pia Laskar, Katerina Suverina, Leonardo Arouca Porfirio da Silva, Kate Davison; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Benno Gammerl, Jonathan D. Katz, Judit Takács, Aaron Devor, Pia Laskar, Katerina Suverina, Leonardo Arouca Porfirio da Silva, Kate Davison; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Aaron Devor, Pia Laskar, Katerina Suverina, Leonardo Arouca Porfirio da Silva, Kate Davison; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Aaron Devor, Pia Laskar, Katerina Suverina, Leonardo Arouca Porfirio da Silva; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Benno Gammerl, Jonathan D. Katz, Judit Takács, Aaron Devor, Pia Laskar, Katerina Suverina; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Benno Gammerl, Jonathan D. Katz, Judit Takács, Aaron Devor, Pia Laskar, Katerina Suverina, Leonardo Arouca Porfirio da Silva, Kate Davison; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Judit Takács, Aaron Devor, Pia Laskar; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
Closing Event: Evening Podium – ‘Queering Memory, Defending the Future’: From left: Steering Committee: Anina Falasca, Benno Gammerl, Carina Klugbauer, Katja Koblitz, Hannes Hacke; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri

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ALMS 2019: WHOSE COLLECTIONS? INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES & CONUNDRUMS

Chair: Brenda Marston
Rita Paqvalen Beyond Queer: Queering Finnish Archives and Museums from an Intersectional Perspective
Ladislav Zikmund-Lender The Will to Preserve: Is Collecting Queer?
Birgit Bosold & Vera Hofmann The Year of the Women* at Schwules Museum Berlin: A Case Study of Power Dynamics within ‘Queer’ Politics of Memory
Jonathan Dorey* Bounded Memories and Fractured Communities in Queer Montréal

*not part of the audio stream

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Whose Collections? Intersectional Perspectives & Conundrums: Rita Paqvalen; Photo: Kate Davison

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ALMS 2019: VISUAL MEMORIES: QUEER PHOTOGRAPHIC OBSERVERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Chair: Maria Bühner
Karl-Heinz Steinle A Day in the Life of Eberhardt Brucks [1917–2008]: A Berlin Gay Life in the 20th Century
Sary Zananiri Homosexuality, Biblical Narrative and the Classical: Frank Scholten Photographing Palestine
Ruth Ramsden-Karelse* Reading Kewpie’s District Six
Judit Szabó Photo Series Representing the Private Life and Civil Activity of LGBTQ People in Hungary

*not part of the audio stream

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Visual Memories: Queer Photographic Observers of the 20th Century: Audience; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Visual Memories: Queer Photographic Observers of the 20th Century: Audience (session presenters Judit Szabó 2nd from left & Karl-Heinz Steinle 3rd from right); Photo: Sabine Hauff
Visual Memories: Queer Photographic Observers of the 20th Century: Sary Zananiri; Photo: Sabine Hauff

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ALMS 2019: PRODUCTIVE INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

Chair: Angela Brinskele
Dalena Hunter & Kelly Besser Imagining Queerness: Archival Memories, Community-based Collecting and Dissident Description
Orla Egan Out of the Basement, Into the Light: The Cork LGBT Archive
Pierrette Squires & Stuart Fros A Queer Cultural Partnership: How LGBTQ Histories Can Enable Museums to Engage with Communities

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Productive Institutional Partnerships: Orla Egan & Stuart Frost; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
Productive Institutional Partnerships: From left: Pierrette Squires, Dalena Hunter, Kelly Besser; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
Productive Institutional Partnerships: Tuula Juvonen (with microphone) and audience; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri

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ALMS 2019: CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE #3: PRACTICES, RECOVERIES & [IM]POSSIBILITIES

Chair: AC Panella
Tomasz Basiuk The Queer 1970s and Early 1980s in Poland as a Proto-Political Era: Evidence from Emerging Archives
Karol Radziszewsk Queer Archives Institute: Institution as an Art Practice
Valentina Iancu* Just a Dream? The Museum of Queer Culture in Bucharest and the Challenge of Queering Memory in Romania
Elena Gusyatinskaya & Elena Zärtlich The Moscow Archive of LGBTIQ People: History of Creation, Maintenance and Its Current State

*not part of the audio stream

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Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: Tomasz Basiuk; Photo: Andreas Pretzel
Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: Valentina Iancu; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: Audience; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: Elena Gusyatinskaya; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: Audience; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: From left: Elena Gusyatinskaya, Elena Zärtlich, Valentina Iancu, Tomasz Basiuk, Karol Radziszewski; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: Audience; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: From left: Elena Gusyatinskaya, Elena Zärtlich, Valentina Iancu; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Central & Eastern Europe #3: Practices, Recoveries & [Im]Possibilities: From left: Elena Zärtlich, Valentina Iancu, Tomasz Basiuk, Karol Radziszewski; Photo: Sabine Hauff

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ALMS 2019: IN OUR OWN WORDS: BISEXUAL & HOMO & QUEER IDENTITY IN OLD AND NEW ORAL HISTORY SOURCES

Chair: E-J Scott
Jędrzej Burszta ‘How to talk about homosexuality, if it didn’t exist?’ Studying Queer Narratives about 1970s Poland
Martha Robinson Rhodes ‘It wasn’t so much changing [my sexuality] as sort of activating it’: Multiple-gender-attraction, Bisexuality and Oral History in Past and Present
Jonathan D. Katz ‘Pop art is queer’: The Previously Unheard Queer Content of Andy Warhol’s 1964 Interview

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In Our Own Words: Bisexual & Homo & Queer Identity in Old and New Oral History Sources: Jędrzej Burszta; Photo: Ineta Lipša
In Our Own Words: Bisexual & Homo & Queer Identity in Old and New Oral History Sources: Jonathan D. Katz; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
In Our Own Words: Bisexual & Homo & Queer Identity in Old and New Oral History Sources: Audience; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri

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ALMS 2019: QUEERING POLITICAL MEMORY: ANTIFASCISM, LIBERALISM & THE LEFT IN QUEER ARCHIVES

Chair: Dennis Altman
Hans Tao-Ming Huang* Queer Left against Queer Liberalism: A Critique of Neo-Coloniality in Post Martial Law Taiwan
Franko Dota Queering the Memory of an Unsung Yugoslav Antifascist Hero
Kristian T. Petersen & Ole K. Jensen Bøssernes Befrielses Front: Danish Gay Lib. A True Story

*not part of the audio stream

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Queering Political Memory: Antifascism, Liberalism & the Left in Queer Archives: Hans Tao-Ming Huang; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
Queering Political Memory: Antifascism, Liberalism & the Left in Queer Archives: Franko Dota; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri

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ALMS 2019: QUEER ARCHIVES IN EDUCATION & RESEARCH

Chair: Judit Szabó
Angela Brinskele & Marie Cartier Students in the Stacks: Building Capacity Through Academic Service Learning
Benno Gammerl [with Justin Bengry] Queer History@Goldsmiths: Archiving, Teaching and Researching the Queer Past
Peter Edelberg & Signe Bremer A Nordic Queer Revolution: Formations of Nordic Homophile, Queer and Trans-Activism in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1948–2018]

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Queer Archives in Education & Research: From left: Angela Brinskele and Marie Cartier; Photo: Maoyi
Queer Archives in Education & Research: Benno Gammerl; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri

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ALMS 2019: RECOVERING & PRESERVING QUEER MEMORIES IN ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA & BRAZIL

Chair: Keval Harie
Michael Andrés Forero Parra Museo Q: Museum Activism as Memory Exercise
Rita de Cássia Rodrigues The Right to Memory and History as a Policy of Reparation and Strategy of Inclusion for the LGBTQI+ Populations
Anahí Farji Neer Transvestism and Transsexuality in the Argentinean Medical Journals [1971–1982]

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Recovering & Preserving Queer Memories in Argentina, Colombia & Brazil: From left: Anahí Farji Neer, Rita de Cássia Rodrigues, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Keval Harie; Photo: unknown
Recovering & Preserving Queer Memories in Argentina, Colombia & Brazil: From left: Anahí Farji Neer, Rita de Cássia Rodrigues, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Keval Harie; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
Recovering & Preserving Queer Memories in Argentina, Colombia & Brazil: Rita de Cássia Rodrigues; Photo: Miguel Alonso Hernández Victoria
Recovering & Preserving Queer Memories in Argentina, Colombia & Brazil: Anahí Farji Neer; Photo: unknown
Recovering & Preserving Queer Memories in Argentina, Colombia & Brazil: Michael Andrés Forero Parra; Photo: Miguel Alonso Hernández Victoria