Saturday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

76. Crackdowns and Scandals: Policing Bodies and Culture

Palmer House, Parlor F

Chair: Christine Stansell, Princeton University

Papers: Anatomy out of Gear: Anatomical Museums, the Law, and the Public Representation of Bodies in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine

Enrico Caruso and "The Monkey House Incident": Scandal, Performance, and the Vagaries of Public Space
David Suisman, Columbia University

"Strong Hard Filth" and "the Aroma of Washington Square": Art, Homosexual Life, and Postal Service Censorship in the Ulysses Obscenity Trial of 1921
Eliza Starr Byard, Columbia University

Comment: T. Jackson Lears, Rutgers University at New Brunswick

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