LGBT History Month launch: Disgraceful Transactions February 3, 2010

What? Lecture

Where? The Council Chamber in The Old Fire Station

How much? Free

Who for? Everyone

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The 2010 launch of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) History Month will be marked by a Salford lecture delivered by the University of Manchester's Dr Eleanor Casella: Disgraceful Transactions: A Sexual Economy of Female Prisons in Nineteenth Century Australia.

Drawn from a combination of archival research and excavations, the lecture will explore how the material word of the Ross Female Factory - a nineteenth century colonial prison for exiled British female felons - influenced internal power relations, sexual practices and social relationships amongst the administrators, guards and female inmates.

The lecture is the third in a series of five high profile talks endorsed by Vice-Chancellor Professor Martin Hall. They are open to everyone and focus on matters of public interest ranging from human rights to early human ancestry in South Africa.

Official Website: http://tinyurl.com/vclectureLGBT