PUBLIC HISTORY COLLOQUIUM EVENT: PRIDE OF PLACE: LGBTQ PUBLIC HISTORY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2020 - TIME TBD - ONLINE

Presented by the Department of History.

Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History for a Zoom talk by UCSB alumnus Dr. Justin Bengry (Goldsmiths, University of London). Dr. Bengry will present a major crowdsourced public history project he helped develop. Pride of Place maps sites of LGBTQ history in the United Kingdom. Dr. Bengry set the project in context of the state of LGBTQ public history in the UK. He is a historian of sexuality and capitalism who chairs the first MA in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London.

This event is free and will take place on Zoom.