WA Distinguished Professors' Lectures Series features internationally renowned scholars visiting the Faculty of English to share their research and professional expertise with the faculty and students. This time we have the honour to host Prof. Noah Riseman (Australian Catholic University in Melbourne) who will deliver a lecture: "Serving in Silence? Australian LGBTI Military Service since 1945" that will take place on June 26 (Friday), 2020, at 10:00 a.m. via MS Teams.
Friday, June 26, 10:00 a.m.
This lecture draws on oral histories and archival records uncovered from a recently-completed Australian Research Council-funded project which explored the changing policies, practices and lived experiences of LGBTI people in the Australian Defence Force since the end of the Second World War. In the lecture, Riseman will showcase the evolution of the Australian military’s approach to LGBTI service through four key phases: silence (1945-73), persecution (1974-92), tolerance (1993-2005) and inclusion (2006-present).
Noah Riseman is a Professor of History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He specialises in histories of race, gender and sexuality, with a long track record examining histories of Indigenous and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people’s service in the Australian military. Riseman has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as authored the following books: “Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War: The Politics, Experiences and Legacies of War in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand “ (co-author; Cambridge University Press, 2019); “Serving in Silence? Australian LGBT Servicemen and Women” (co-author; NewSouth, 2018); “Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945” (co-author; University of Queensland Press, 2016); “Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012). The contents of this lecture will form part of his forthcoming co-authored monograph: “Pride in Defence: The Australian Military and LGBTI Service since 1945” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2021).
