BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:185@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251112T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251112T180000 DTSTAMP:20250922T164501Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/alvin-baltrops-voyeurism-sexual-pervers ity-race-and-the-historical-uses-of-photography/ SUMMARY:Alvin Baltrop’s Voyeurism: Sexual Perversity\, Race\, and the His torical Uses of Photography DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us on November 12\, 2025 from 4:30PM to 6PM in the Pau l Cardario Conference Centre at University College (15 King's College Circ le) for the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies’ annual Michael L ynch Distinguished Lecturer Series. This year’s talk will feature Darius Bost\, Associate Professor of Black Studies and Gender &\; Women’s S tudies at the University of Illinois Chicago. See below for more informati on about their talk titled “Alvin Baltrop’s Voyeurism: Sexual Perversi ty\, Race\, and the Historical Uses of Photography.”\n\nGet your tickets now on Eventbrite\n\nAbstract: Darius Bost will explore the work of black gay photographer Alvin Baltrop\, known for his photographs of the gay sex ual cultures and abandoned warehouses at New York's West Side piers in the 1970s and 1980s. Since the 2019 solo exhibition The Life and Times of Alv in Baltrop at the Bronx Museum\, Baltrop has received increased scholarly and popular attention. However\, Baltrop has been primarily discussed as a gay artist who focused on gay subcultures. Bost will discuss how Baltrop' s identification as a black gay voyeur shaped his artistic practice and li fe experience. Since Baltrop viewed his photography as historical document ation of a fleeting gay culture\, the talk also considers how his voyeuris tic approach to photography might intervene in the practice of queer histo ry.\n\nDarius Bost is Associate Professor of Black Studies and Gender & \; Women’s Studies\, and the co-principal investigator of the Provost In itiative on the Racialized Body at the University of Illinois Chicago. Bos t is the author of the award-winning book\, Evidence of Being: The Black G ay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence\, and co-author with C. Riley Snorton of A Black Queer History of the United States\, forthcomi ng from Beacon Press in 2016.\n\n \;\n\nIf you have any accessibility needs or requested accommodations\, please email sexual.diversity@utoronto .ca. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Lynch Lecture2025-DariusBost-poster-small-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR