Hi Megan, I would be very interested in participating. I am already giving
a paper but my memory is that panels don't count as papers. I can talk
about lesbian and queer theory and their application in prehistoric and
historic archaeology. I have become quite familiar with all the development
of different kinds of feminist theory through teaching the subject as the
director of Women's Studies at OU for 5 years. besides the historical
development of lesbian and queer theories I can talk about their interface
with material feminist theory. And my research has been influenced by queer
theory in paying attention to what is known about the domestic reform
women, who often lived together in what were called "Boston marriages"
because they were so common in that city. I solicited Deb Rotman to discuss
one of these couples who moved to Deerfield MA and led the arts and crafts
movement there. Jane Addams, the founder of the social settlement in the
US, is known to have formed at least homosocial if not homosexual
relationships, as well as some other reformers. And I have argued that
founding and working with children in day nurseries and kindergartens, as
well as after-school programs in social settlements were ways of fulfilling
desires for interacting with children without marrying and giving birth to
any.
does this sound interesting? I have been fascinated.
regards,
suzanne


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Megan Springate
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> Greetings,
>
> I am organizing a panel/session on LGBTQ/Queer Archaeologies on behalf of
> the SHA Gender and Minority Affairs Committee for Quebec 2014.
>
> I am looking for presenters for the following:
>
> 1) Queer Archaeology: projects, research, theory, frameworks. Standard
> conference presentation format, with time for discussion.
>
> 2) Issues for LGBTQ archaeologists as practitioners. In the field, in
> academia, as members of the SHA, etc. Panel discussion/workshop in concert
> with audience members. Participants will please prepare a short (5-7
> minute) statement, to be followed by questions and comments from other
> panel members and the audience. The purpose of this panel/workshop is the
> preparation of a draft white paper for circulation and discussion.
>
> Please respond by July 5.
>
> Regards,
> Megan Springate
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>