Exploring LGBTQ Histories at the British Museum
February 19, 2017
Part of OUTing the Past: The National Festival of LGBT History
Special event
Exploring LGBTQ histories at the British Museum
Sunday 19 February 2017, 10.30-2.45
BP Lecture Theatre
Free, just drop in
10.30 Introduction to the morning talks
Laura Phillips, Head of Community Partnerships
10.40 When two lovers meet: the 11,000-year-old sculpture from Ain Sakhri, Palestine
Jill Cook, Keeper of Britain, Europe and Prehistory
11.10 Radical radishes and other campaigns
Philip Attwood, Keeper of Coins and Medals
11.40 Muck or meaning? Scenes of a (homo)sexual nature on Greek pots
Thomas Kiely, Greece and Rome
12.10 Lunch (not provided)
13.30 Introduction to the afternoon talks
Laura Phillips, Head of Community Partnerships
13.40 The swashbuckling life of the Chevalier d’Eon
Sarah Vowles, Prints and Drawings
14.10 Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories
Stuart Frost, Head of Interpretation, and Laura Phillips, Head of Community Partnerships
Programme may be subject to change
