Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the
future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
This event is part of Queer Rural Connections project, part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.
Thursday 15 July 2021, 2-5pm
Watch live here
Rural Connections: Mediating Rural Queer Identity through Technology, Theatre and Film is a project spearheaded by Timothy Allsop and Dr Kira Allmann alongside the theatre and education company, Turn of Phrase. Through partnerships with the Museum of English Rural Life, The Museum of East Anglian Life, Pride in Suffolk’s Past, SupportU, and several other arts and heritage organizations, the project creates both a filmed documentary and live theatre piece exploring queer rural lives. One of the key objectives is to decentre urban perspectives and presentations of queer lives and identities.
The research examines how rural LGBTQIA+ communities engage with technology and social media and looks at their impact on queer rural spaces, generational divides, social life, coming out experiences, and support service access. The project explores how our partners engage with their archives to uncover queer rural histories and how to make these stories available to local communities. The film and theatre piece created as part of this project will tour several heritage and arts venues, and form the foundations of this conference in Oxford on 15th July 2021.
Speakers:
Timothy Allsop (Turn of Phrase)
Dr Catherine Lee (Anglia Ruskin University)
Prof Dimitris Papanikolaous (University of Oxford)
Dr Kira Allmann (University of Oxford)
with performances by Tigger Blaize and William Wyn Davies
This live streamed conference will feature workshops, talk-backs and opportunities for audiences and participants to engage with queer archival material as part of the project.
Apply to attend in person:
The conference will also have a limited in person audience – if you would like to attend in person please complete the form below noting that this is first come first served basis. Successful applicants will then be contacted by the project organisers with furhter information. Application to attend in person.
This conferenece will be livestreamed below
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oqfc3H5S49Y
For full details of this project please visit: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/queer-rural-connections#/
