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ALMS 2019: PUBLIC MUSEUMS & THE ‘INVISIBLE’ QUEER COMMUNITY

Chair: Jan Pimblett
Íris Ellenberger The Rainbow Thread: A Queer Guide through the National Museum of Iceland
Klaus Mueller The Invisible Visitor: Museums and the LGBTI Community
Pia Laskar Unstraight Research in Museums: Queering Museums’ Permanent Exhibitions and Building Networks
Branden Wallace & Daniel J. Sander A Queer Art Museum Collection: Exhibiting and Archiving with the Leslie-Lohman Museum

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Public Museums & The ‘Invisible’ Queer Community: From left: Jan Pimblett, Íris Ellenberger, Daniel J. Sander, Klaus Mueller; Photo: Branden Wallace
Public Museums & The ‘Invisible’ Queer Community: From left: Jan Pimblett, Íris Ellenberger, Daniel J. Sander, Klaus Mueller, Pia Laskar, Branden Wallace; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
Public Museums & The ‘Invisible’ Queer Community: From left: Branden Wallace, Íris Ellenberger, Daniel J. Sander, Klaus Mueller, Pia Laskar; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri
Public Museums & The ‘Invisible’ Queer Community: From left: Daniel J. Sander, Klaus Mueller, Pia Laskar; Photo: Christiani Dwi Putri

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ALMS 2019: LOST & SALVAGED ARCHIVES & LETTERS: DISASTERS, DISCOVERIES & RESCUES

Chair: Marie Cartier
Olov Kriström Lone Heroes or Durable Communities? Reflections on the Image of Queer History Workers
Carolyn D’Cruz The Lesbian Herstory Archives’ Letter from Radclyffe Hall: Making Sense of Stephen in the Well of Loneliness for Today’s Alphabet Soup
John Tubera Salvaging Memory after the Malibu Fire
Runar Jordåen ‘I of course take for granted, that this, like my other letters, will be burned’: Queer Memory and Loss in Norway

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Lost & Salvaged Archives & Letters: Disasters, Discoveries & Rescues: John Tubera; Photo: unknonwn

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ALMS 2019: ART & ARCHIVES #2: CREATING EXHIBITIONS WITHIN AND FROM OUR COLLECTIONS

Chair: Ladislav Zikmund-Lender
Sumitra Sunder So You Think You Know the Closet? A Reading and Reflection on Using Archival Material in Queer Art Practice
Christiane Erharter Queer Stories: Artists Working with Queer Histories/Herstories/Stories in Former Socialist Countries
Angela Bailey Activating the Archive: Contemporary Artists and the Queer Archive
Linda Chernis Archives Made Public: The ‘Kewpie: Daughter of District Six’ Exhibition

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Art & Archives #2: Creating Exhibitions Within and From Our Collections: Linda Chernis; Photo: unknonwn

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ALMS 2019: QUEER & TRANS ELDERS: MEMORIES, COLLECTIONS & LIBRARIES

Chair: Daniel Baranowski
Harrison Apple ‘I want to come out looking glamorous one more time’: the Pittsburgh Queer History Project
Yen-Jen Chen Re-constructing Queer History in Taiwan: The Memorial Identity of Gay Elders Communities in Cyberspace
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay & Jennifer Evans A Touch Across Time: Queer Ways into Queer Libraries

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Queer & Trans Elders: Memories, Collections & Libraries: Harrison-Apple; Photo: Daniel J. Sander
Queer & Trans Elders: Memories, Collections & Libraries: Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay; Photo: Daniel J. Sander

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ALMS 2019: CENTERING/RECOVERING LESBIAN HISTORIES & MEMORIES #2

Chair: Brenda Marston
Tone Hellesund Desexualising Lesbians: Strategic and Ideological Positionings in Norwegian Radical Feminist Periodicals 1976–1986
Ulla Manns On Legibility and Visibility: The Risk of Unqueering 19th Century Feminism
Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen Tense Alliances: Gender Politics in Norway’s Gay and Lesbian Periodicals During the Transitional 1980s
Dagmar Brunow Unqueering Lesbian Heritage? Curating Digital Content in Audiovisual Archives

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Centering/Recovering Lesbian Histories & Memories #2: Tone Hellesund; Photo: Ineta Lipša
Centering/Recovering Lesbian Histories & Memories #2: Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Centering/Recovering Lesbian Histories & Memories #2: Brenda Marston; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Centering/Recovering Lesbian Histories & Memories #2: Dagmar Brunow; Photo: Sabine Hauff

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ALMS 2019: ART & ARCHIVES #1: THEATRE & PERFORMANCE

Chair: Sumitra Sunder
Bonnie Gabel Alleged Lesbian Activities: Creatively Interpreting the History of Lesbian Bars in New Orleans
Alyson Campbell Taking an Affective Approach to ‘Doing’ Queer Histories in Performance: Queer Dramaturgy as a Reparative Practice of Erotohistoriography
E-J Scott Princess 1700–1750: DUCKIE’S Georgian Queers and their Pleasure Gardens
Eike Wittrock Queering Modern Dance Archives

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Art & Archives #1: Theatre & Performance: Eike Wittrock; Photo: Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

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ALMS 2019: CENTERING/RECOVERING LESBIAN HISTORIES & MEMORIES #1

Chair: Katja Koblitz
Magdalena Staroszczyk ‘No one talked about it’: The Paradox of Lesbian Identity in pre-1989 Poland and Absence in Archives
Margit Hauser Making Lesbians Visible: Traces of a Debate in Women’s Archives in the German-speaking World
Maria Bühner Queering the Stasi, or What We Can Learn about Lesbians While Reading the Records of the East German State Security Service
Sabine Balke Estremadoyro The Digital German Women’s Archive [DDF] from Analogue to Digital: Saving Feminist Movement

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Centering/Recovering Lesbian Histories: Magdalena Staroszczyk; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Centering/Recovering Lesbian Histories: Margit Hauser; Photo: Sabine Hauff
Centering/Recovering Lesbian Histories: Audience; Photo: Sabine Hauff