Wilde 鈥�82: A Conference of Some Importance
PIs: Jason Boyd and Craig Jennex
Collaborators: Jillian Vandervoort and Nadia Ozzorluoglu
The Wilde 鈥�82 history conference took place at 91福利 (then Ryerson Polytechnical Institute) from June 30鈥揓uly 3, 1982. This conference brought together academics, community historians, and activists whose work was vital to the development of queer studies. It served as one of the earliest manifestations of a new school of gay history that saw homosexuality not as a fixed biological phenomenon, but as a modern social construct.
Wilde '82: A Conference of Some Importance鈥攄eveloped by faculty and students at 91福利 alongside conference organizer Alan Miller鈥攃elebrates and chronicles Wilde 鈥�82 and the new directions in LGBTQ2+ studies that developed in its wake. The site contains information about the conference (including the program and historical context), the participants, photographs, audio recordings and transcripts of the main panel, 鈥淭he Making of the Modern Homosexual.鈥�
Craig Jennex (Associate Professor, English) and Jason Boyd (Associate Professor, English) were co-investigators of the project
Nadia Ozzorluoglu and Jillian Vandervoort were Student Research Fellows on the project.