This workshop aims to explore the epistemological, methodological and political challenges of using judicial archives to conduct historical research on homosexuality. It is open to all early career researchers (master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers) conducting investigations into the history of homosexuality using court records and/or other judicial documents, whatever their discipline. This is the second edition of this workshop; the first one, held in November 2024, explored the diverse uses of judicial archives in current research on the history of homosexuality. This new edition focuses specifically on the issue of framing the object of research and on categories of analysis in the history of homosexuality, and how these are put to the test by confrontation with this material. A publication of the contributions presented during the workshop will be discussed at the end of the event, in consultation with the participants.
Research workshop for graduate students & early career researchers: Sherine Berzig (Univ. de Cergy Pontoise), Quentin Trichard, Romain Jaouen (Sciences Po Paris) and Paul Durand (EHESS/TU Dresden) (Web)
Time: 07.-08.11.2025
Venue: Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France (Paris area)
Proposals by: 12.09.2025
Argument
Over the last ten years or so, court records have emerged as a new fertile ground for the history of homosexuality (Delessert, 2012; Huard, 2016; Stroh, 2018; Zinn, 2018; Reglia, 2020; Fernández-Galeano, 2024). Registers, complaints, investigations, depositions, confrontations, expert reports, sentences: the documents found in judicial files, whatever the jurisdiction (civil, criminal, military), raise many questions. In a first workshop devoted to these archives, we explored the many ways of identifying homosexual practices within them: … read more (PDF).
Quelle: Salon 21 (Web)