Finding Queer Stories in Archives - Seminar Series 2021

Dr Oliver Baldwin - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at the University of Reading


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In this episode, the team talk to Dr Oliver Baldwin from the University of Reading's Department of Classics about: his interest in queer history; his current project Queer Tragedy; why classics is so queer; how the men in the Broken Futures project may have used their understandings of the ancient world to understand their same-sex desire; and the relevance of Oscar Wilde's famous use of 'the love that dare not speak it's name' to legitimise his relationships with other men.
This is a really accessible podcast that introduces queer classics for a first-time listener.
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