BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:311@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200516T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200516T123000 DTSTAMP:20200318T194315Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/wilde-sexuality-state-2/ SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Oscar Wilde\, Sexuality\, and the State [Day 2] DESCRIPTION:–conference organized by Joseph Bristow (UCLA)\n\nThis confer ence will consider both the fin-de-siècle contexts and the worldwide cons equences of the three trials involving Oscar Wilde that took place at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) from 3 April 1895 to 25 May 1895. Thes e trials\, which arguably constitute the most famous criminal proceedings relating to the state prohibition of male homosexuality\, resulted in a br utal two-year sentence for committing acts of gross indecency with other m ales\, for which Wilde suffered solitary confinement with hard labor. He w as tried under the punitive eleventh section of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885: a law that underwent partial decriminalization in England and W ales in 1967 (somewhat later in Scotland and Northern Ireland).\n\nThe org anizer Joseph Bristow has recently completed for Yale University Press a 2 50\,000-word manuscript\, “Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceeding s\, from Arrest to Imprisonment\,” which features a reconstruction of th e trials through a wide range of newspaper and other printed sources. This volume–which turns to British press accounts because the official short hand court records have been missing from the National Archives since at l east 1920–is sorely needed. The last comprehensive account appeared in 1 962\, and it contains very uneven coverage of the ways in which the Crown prosecution used unreasonable methods to persuade the jury that Wilde was guilty of an easy-to-corroborate crime. More to the point\, the 1962 editi on–on which scholars still rely–presents an outdated view of male homo sexual intimacy. Bristow’s volume situates the Wilde trials in relation to several other well-known cases involving homosexual scandal: the Dublin Castle affair\; the male brothel on Cleveland Street\; the trial of Edwar d de Cobain\; and the Gatty v. Farquharson dispute.\n\nOscar Wilde\, Sexua lity\, and the State takes the occasion of Wilde’s courtroom ordeal as a starting-point for understanding not only the growing awareness of queer subcultures during the 1880s and 1890s but also the long shadow that Wilde ’s trials cast upon the proscription of same-sex intimacy in many differ ent parts of the world. The legacy of Wilde’s imprisonment can be felt i n divergent areas of the colonial and post-colonial world\, especially in Australia\, New Zealand\, Africa\, South Asia\, Hong Kong\, and Singapore. The fact that more than 50\,000 or so men were convicted under the egregi ous terms of the 1885 law in Britain speaks to the increasing ways in whic h male-male intimacy became prosecutable during a period of seventy-two ye ars. The conference provides the opportunity to look at the impact that ch arges of gross indecency had in Britain\, particularly in relation to pers istence of homosexual extortion\, changes in policing methods\, and the at tempted criminalization of lesbian intimacy. The symposium provides a foru m for legal and humanities scholars to exchange insights into this signifi cant current of modern sexual history.\n\nSpeakers\nCollette Colligan\, Si mon Fraser University\nCaroline Derry\, The Open University\nMackenzie Gre gg\, University of California\, Riverside\nKatie Hindmarch-Watson\, Johns Hopkins University\nNeville Hoad\, University of Texas at Austin\nLeila Ne ti\, Occidental College\nSimon Stern\, University of Toronto\nCharles Upch urch\, Florida State University\nMarco Wan\, University of Hong Kong\n\n\n \nProgram\n\n\n\nImage: Front cover\,Illustrated Police News\, Saturday\, 4 May 1895\n\nThere is no charge for this event. Advance booking is reques ted. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11 /WildeConvicted-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR