march, 2021

thu25mar6:10 pm7:30 pmPerforming Black Queer History in Baltimore’s “Cathedral of Books”

Event Details

Hosted by by Columbia Oral History MA Program

Virtual – RSVP – Free

Joseph Plaster discusses the role of oral history in developing and launching the Peabody Ballroom Experience, a public humanities collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and the Baltimore artists who make up ballroom, a countercultural provocation of fashion, dance, and performance created by queer and transgender people of color. The project cultivates an exchange of knowledge between Hopkins and ballroom, bringing together faculty, students, and ballroom artists as partners in education. Crucially, we approach oral history and performance as repositories of history and knowledge, expanding what the public humanities can look and feel like.

Joseph Plaster is Curator in Public Humanities for the Sheridan Libraries and University Museums at Johns Hopkins University and an Assistant Research Scholar at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. His research and teaching focuses on collaborative public humanities, performance studies, oral history, and queer history. As Curator in Public Humanities, Plaster conducts original research at archives and museums across Johns Hopkins and interprets those collections through courses and collections-based innovations. His current book project combines archival, ethnographic, and oral history research to explore the social worlds that abandoned and runaway queer street youth, their patrons, and their protectors have created over the past century in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.

These events are open to all. For more information or if we can make any of these events more accessible to you please contact Rebecca McGilveray at [email protected].

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Time

(Thursday) 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

Online

Organizer

Columbia Oral History MA Program

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