Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid-to late-twentieth-century United States.

*Respondents:*

Susanne Schmidt (University of Basle / WGQ)
Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Ella Castanier (Oxford)

*Meleisa Ono-George* is writing a public-facing book entitled _My Name is Amelia Newsham: Science, Art and the Making of Race_. To do so, she uses the sparse source material of an enslaved woman’s life to weave an intimate and nuanced history of race in eighteenth-century Britain.

President Franklin Roosevelt once said ‘no major war has ever been won or lost through lack of money.’ He was wrong. This paper explains why. It argues that as states struggled to finance the immense war efforts required by the two world wars, and to undermine their enemies, money became a crucial weapon. The UK and USA led the way in discovering new methods of using money to do both.

The event will be followed by a drinks reception.

The global refugee regime has shifted under our feet. Over the last forty years, international asylum practices have expanded to include the queer and trans displaced. At least thirty-seven countries now recognize LGBTIQ refugees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, with some states providing specialized support. Yet amid this expansion, backlash has intensified against refugee protection as well as the hard-earned rights of LGBTIQ people. In this disquieting context, the protection of LGBTIQ refugees remains partial and exclusionary.

You are warmly invited to the showing of a new documentary film, ‘The Hardest Bridge’, on a real example of post-conflict reconciliation in Britain and Northern Ireland, with discussion led by the film’s subjects Jo Berry and Pat Magee:

'The Hardest Bridge' Tuesday 3 February [Third Week]
7.30pm – 10.00 pm, in the Auditorium, St John’s College.