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Beyond The Well of Loneliness: Reassessing Radclyffe Hall’s Place in LGBTQ History

8th October 2016 @ 14:30 - 17:00

Free

Listen to a recording of the talk here.

Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928) is one of the most famous and widely read lesbian novels. It is also a deeply controversial book that has been celebrated for its defence of homosexual relationships and criticised for its bleak depiction of lesbian love.

This talk will draw on original archival research to take us beyond The Well of Loneliness and open up a new understanding of Radclyffe Hall’s writings and views on gender and sexuality. In particular, it will reassess Hall’s engagement with sexological understandings of sexuality and gender identity, including those articulated by John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis, and reconsider her often misunderstood engagement with feminist politics and female sexuality.

Dr Jana Funke is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. She has published numerous chapters and journal articles on the history of sexuality, sexual science, and modernist literature. Books include The World and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (2016), and the co-edited volumes Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (2011) and Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts (forthcoming, 2018).

This is the Third Annual John Addington Symonds Celebration event of the University of Bristol’s Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT).  Our thanks to them for sponsoring this event. Symonds was a Bristol-based writer, art historian and pioneer of homosexual rights.

The talk will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of OutStories Bristol (very brief!).

Everyone is welcome to both the AGM and talk. Admission and refreshments are free but a small donation towards the running costs of OutStories Bristol would be appreciated. Please book on Eventbrite.

Saturday 8th October 2016, 2pm to 5pm

The Old Council Chamber,  Wills Memorial Building,  Queens Road,  Bristol,  BS8 1RJ
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2pm: coffee/drinks in Room 1.5 (just opposite the Old Council Chamber)
2:30pm: AGM followed by talk by Jana Funke
4.30pm/5pm drinks reception to celebrate the 176th birthday of John Addington Symonds.

The Old Council Chamber is on the first floor of the Wills Memorial Building – go up the main stairs and turn right.

Disabled parking is on the left side of the building with a lift to the first floor.

This event is sponsored by the University of Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition.
Find out more about the IGRCT on their website; you can also find them on Facebook and Twitter.

Details

Date:
8th October 2016
Time:
14:30 - 17:00
Cost:
Free
Event Categories:
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Website:
http://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/category/events-upcoming/

Organiser

OutStories Bristol
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Venue

The Old Council Chamber
Wills Memorial Building
Bristol, Select a State: BS8 1RJ United Kingdom
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