Greek to the Soul: George Ives and Homosexuality in Britain from Wilde to Wolfenden
George Cecil Ives (1867-1950) was a scion of the English gentry, a sexologist and a criminologist who founded a clandestine ‘gay rights’ organization, the Order of Chaeronea, in the 1890s. More significantly for the historian, he wrote a massive diary, observing and chronicling a sexual revolution: the period when new categories of sexual and gendered identity crystallized in a complex interplay between emerging sexological science and queer subjects. This lecture aims to capture the Ivesian bricolage, in context, during this time of momentous change.
Date: 11 May 2023, 17:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Master's Dining Room
Speaker: Professor Brian Lewis (Balliol College)
Organising department: Balliol College
Organiser contact email address: college.office@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oliver Smithies Lectures
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: college.office@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Jennifer Stewart